A group of University of Richmond students launched a new beverage product into local stores this week.
Through the yearlong Bench Top Innovations course at the university, the students created a company called TwinTail Brews and an energy drink called Superberry Power Tea. The drink is sugar-free and has caffeine and L-theanine, an amino acid that balances the effects of caffeine to take away some of the jitters associated with energy drinks. The students are having the drink manufactured at a facility in Virginia Beach and released the product at Ellwood Thompson’s and other retailers around Richmond this week.
The class started in the fall with four different teams, and each team produced a different food and beverage product. The teams submitted the final products to a panel of judges, which selected the tea as the winning product. The 16 students who had enrolled in the class merged into one team and began building the company.
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