A team that's already done the hard part.

Auroch Canning exists because we built and ran a beverage brand ourselves first — and learned exactly what a growing brand needs from a co-packer.

From aerospace, to kombucha, to Auroch.

  1. 2016
    Jake Haneman leaves an aerospace engineering career to start Bootlegger Brewing Kombucha. It grows into the largest kombucha brand in the Midwest by volume.
  2. 2019–23
    As Minnesota legalizes hemp beverages, the brewery takes on its first hemp co-manufacturing contracts. Demand keeps growing.
  3. 2024
    That growth outgrows the old facility and business structure. Auroch Canning is founded as a dedicated co-manufacturing operation — built from day one around hemp beverage production, at scale, done right.
  4. 2024–Present
    We've invested steadily in equipment and people, tripling our canning capacity along the way — from a 25 CPM line, to 50 CPM, to our current 100 CPM line, with holding tank capacity upgraded to match.
Jake Haneman, founder of Auroch Canning

Jake Haneman, Founder

Engineering discipline, brewer's instinct

Jake's background in aerospace engineering trained him to spot bottlenecks and chase them down. That habit shows up in how we run the floor: documented, measured, repeatable. It's paired with a leadership team steeped in a variety of beverage experience.

A can of Bootlegger Brewing Kombucha being poured, the beverage brand Jake Haneman built before founding Auroch Canning

Bootlegger Brewing Kombucha — the brand Jake built and grew into the largest kombucha brand in the Midwest by volume, before founding Auroch Canning in 2024 to give other growing brands the production partner he wished he'd had.

How we work with growing brands

Compliance-first, by necessity

Hemp beverage manufacturing doesn't leave room for loose documentation. That discipline — QA, lab submissions, traceability — carries over to every product we run. Our quality assurance team is certified by the International HACCP Alliance.

You work with people, not a queue

We're a small team by choice. You'll work directly with people who know your run and care how it goes — Minnesota Nice, put into practice.

Room to grow with you

Seven holding tanks from 40 to 140 bbl and a high-shear mixer give us the flexibility to scale a relationship as your volume grows.

Focused on your success, not just your run.

We've been on your side of the table — building a brand, chasing distribution, solving problems with no playbook. That's the lens we bring to every partnership: we like a hard problem, and we'd rather find a creative solution than say it can't be done.

Curious if we're a fit?

The fastest way to find out is to tell us what you're making.

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