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126 in-depth FACES fancy packaging and elaborate branding and instead fo- cus exclusively on creating the highest-quality product they could. "We said, 'We'll just concentrate on what's in the bottle,'" notes Mahoney. In the beginning, they had a tough time finding a manufacturing partner that could meet the standards they aspired to. So, instead of contracting the work out, the partners put together an investment partnership and bought a beverage-manufacturing facility in Vermont, allowing the company to have complete control over the production process. "We own all the sourcing, the manu- facturing, the quality control," explains Mahoney. Today, Powell & Mahoney's small-batch mixers are created in 300-gallon steam kettles that pasteurize the concoctions at lower temperatures than the industrial- sized pasteurization systems generally used by large-