Sustainable Beverage Technologies

Sustainable Beverage Technologies (SBT) is a food and beverage technology company based in Golden, Colorado, that develops and patents brewing processes intended to make production of fermented beverages more profitable, efficient and environmentally sustainable. Its patented BrewVo process uses continuous, nested fermentation followed by membrane separation to remove alcohol and water, yielding a beer concentrate — marketed as Multi-Brewed Beer — with up to six times the ingredient and flavor density of conventionally brewed beer. The concentrate is held at 2.99% ABV or below, can be frozen to extend shelf life, and is distributed in bag-in-box format rather than 15.5-gallon kegs.

The company also sells NexDraft, a draft dispensing system for both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beer that blends the concentrate with a side-car bag of carbonated water, or water and ethanol, at the point of pour. Because strength is set during dispensing, the same concentrate can serve full-strength, mid-strength or non-alcoholic pours, and outlets do not need beer lines, kegs or walk-in coolers. SBT can replicate a brewer's existing recipe on its own equipment or brew under its own label, Neologik Brewing.

SBT operates an 8,400-square-foot manufacturing facility in Golden's CoorsTek Center and has produced small batches of non-alcoholic beer for third-party brands, including a non-alcoholic Irish Stout for Deschutes, a non-alcoholic Blood Orange IPA for Tommyknocker, and a non-alcoholic Golden lager and Juicy IPA for Gruvi. Its stated environmental and cost case is the elimination of kegs and the associated water, steel, labor and freight; management has cited potential annual savings at a macro brewery of roughly $2 million in labor, $10 million in truck journeys and $2 million in kegs.

Founding story

The company was founded by Alaska native Pat (Patrick) Tatera and incorporated in 2010 as Pat's Backcountry Beverages. In 2015 it launched a beer concentrate and portable carbonation kit that let backpackers carbonate beer in the field. After roughly two years on the market, management concluded the consumer product could be scaled into an industrial solution with greater environmental impact, and the company rebranded as Sustainable Beverage Technologies in 2019. [0][2][3][7]

Business model

Business-to-business, combining hardware sales and services/consulting: SBT licenses and installs its brewing technology and NexDraft dispensing systems with brewers and hospitality venues, produces concentrate on contract for beverage brands, and brews under its own Neologik Brewing label. [0][3][5]

Revenue comes from hardware sales and services/consulting to brewers, technology licensing of the patented BrewVo process, and supply of beer concentrate produced for third-party brands or sold under SBT's own Neologik Brewing label. [0][3]

Traction

By 2021 the company had 15 staff and was producing non-alcoholic beer for Deschutes, Tommyknocker and Gruvi, with NexDraft systems installed in the Gruvi and Tommyknocker taprooms. Tommyknocker was producing about 100 cases of non-alcoholic Blood Orange IPA and stated plans to order 2,000 cases a month once SBT scaled at Sleeping Giant, while Gruvi placed larger orders and planned an additional brand. Later partners include Denali Brewing and Switchback Brewing Co., which added KRUSH N.A. IPA to its year-round lineup. [3][5][7]

Latest developments

In January 2026 Switchback Brewing Co., an employee-owned Vermont brewery, brought non-alcoholic production in-house and expanded BrewVo capabilities to the East Coast; in April 2026 Switchback and SBT showcased BrewVo and Krush N.A. IPA at the Craft Brewers Conference, and Switchback added KRUSH N.A. IPA to its year-round lineup as reported in July 2026. [5][7]