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Clubtails offers cocktail-in-a-can experience
GROUPE GELOSO WAS FOUNDED IN 1960 BY ITALIAN IMMIGRANT VINCENZO Geloso. He and his sons, Aldo, Antoine and Nicolangelo, rose from humble beginnings importing and crushing grapes to creating a multi-national beverage company that would help define future categories in the alcohol beverage industry.
Geloso Beverage Group LLC, Rochester, N.Y., a 100 percent subsidiary of Group Geloso, offers its signature 16-ounce Clubtails "Cocktails in a Can" and 200-ml flasks containing Johny Bootlegger, a 12 percent alcohol by volume (ABV) spirit-like malt beverage with Prohibition-themed varieties like Prison Break Black Cherry, Alcatraz Apple and Sing Sing Sour Grape. These popular brands are malt based and distributed in 19 states and Canada, with national distribution planned for 2017, Geloso's U.S. Business Director Paul René says.
In addition to these SKUs, the family owned and operated company makes and manufactures four Lolita Cocktails, Spanish-like Sangrias, and two low-alcohol wines out of its corporate headquarters in Laval, Quebec, which is north of Montreal. The Mons Abbey Ales line, brewed with natural, 100 percent pure Abitibi Esker water and Belgian Trappist yeast, is manufactured in Geloso's microbrewery in Amos, Quebec. Additionally, under the direction of brewmaster Jean-Louis Marcoux, the brewery is undergoing a $7 million expansion scheduled for completion in December.
"Our corporate facility in Montreal holds...