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US-made drink brands worth the money - coffee, kombucha, tea, sodas, etc!
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items This list is part of the AMERICAN QUALITY series - your guide to US beverage brands that are good for your body, good for the economy, and good for the planet. From coffee and kombucha to teas and sparkling tonics - these are great US-made drinks mad...
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Coffee
Tea
Kombucha & Fermented Drinks
Sodas, Sparkling Water & Tonics
Functional & Adaptogenic Drinks
Coffee
Founded in Venice Beach in 1990 and still independent, Groundwork is one of the most celebrated ethical coffee brands in America. Groundwork changed the game entirely when it launched the world's first Regenerative Organic Certified coffee. Their bea...
Groundwork Coffee
Founded in 1995, Equator Coffees started in a Marin County garage and grew into the first California coffee roaster ever to earn B Corp certification. In 2024, Equator launched a full Regenerative Organic Coffee Blend. They also won the National Smal...equatorcoffees.com.
Equator Coffees
Strong, organic, flavorful coffee from a worker-owned co-op that has been doing Fair Trade organic since 1986. The straightforward swap that will make you feel good every morning with no extra effort required.
Equal Exchange
Excellent coffee from a small B Corp roaster on the Florida Gulf Coast - you can have your morning cup of joe safe in the knowledge everyone who had a hand in making it got paid a living wage!
Amavida Coffee Roasters
Tea
Small-batch loose leaf out of Ann Arbor, and honestly the most principled tea brand I've found. Their packaging is backyard-compostable (as in, you can use it for your own plants in your yard!) and they ship by sea instead of air to cut emissions. I ...
Arbor Teas
Reliably good organic tea from the first exclusively organic tea company in the US. The perfect starting point if you've decided to stop buying the supermarket stuff.
Choice Organic Teas
Everything this brand makes is organic and fair trade certified, sweetened with organic agave or honey instead of cane sugar, brewed with real tea leaves, and packaged in glass bottles or cans rather than plastic. The Moroccan Mint and Peach Oolong f...
Just Ice Tea
Kombucha & Fermented Drinks
GT started brewing in his LA kitchen at 15, inspired by his mother's battle with breast cancer - and has been at it ever since, which I love. I like the Gingerberry and Guava Goddess flavors, but I also like to try a new variety every once in a while...
GT's Living Foods
Bright, juicy, real fruit flavor. The Pink Lady Apple is one of the best-tasting kombuchas on the market, and I'll stand by that. USDA Organic, 1 billion live bacteria per bottle - spooky, yet exciting!
Health-Ade
Sodas, Sparkling Water & Tonics
An apple cider vinegar (ACV) tonic built on an old farmer's recipe. One full tablespoon of organic ACV, real fruit, 25 calories per can - the vinegar taste is refreshing rather than sharp, and it genuinely makes you feel good after a workout or a lon...
HAYMAKER - Tractor
Incredibly delicious soda that somehow figured out how to deliver gut health benefits without tasting like a supplement. Their Vintage Cola tastes amazing, and the Classic Root Beer became the best-selling root beer in America last year, incredible f...
OLIPOP
Made in Austin, Texas, with really great-tasting natural flavors and a carbonation level that holds up without going flat immediately. USDA Organic certified, non-GMO, zero sweeteners, zero calories, independently owned and based in Texas. A great dr...
Waterloo Sparkling Water
Started in a San Francisco kitchen in 2019 by Paul and Madeleine Voge, who wanted a sparkling water that tastes like real herbs, fruits, and flowers. No citric acid, no sweeteners, no artificial anything, RO-filtered water, 1% for the Planet. The fla...
Aura Bora
Functional & Adaptogenic Drinks
These genuinely taste like cocktails - complex flavors built with organic juices, herbs, and bitters that hold their own in a nice serving glass with ice. Made in the Hudson Valley.
Curious Elixirs
Tepache is a traditional Mexican fermented drink that's been made in street markets for centuries with pineapple rinds, piloncillo sugar, and spices, left to ferment until it's lightly bubbly and complex. De La Calle brought it to the US market by la...
De La Calle Tepache
Founded in 1996 as a Cal Poly senior project, built on a then-radical idea that a beverage company could directly fund rainforest restoration just by selling drinks. Nearly 30 years later it's still doing exactly that, in direct partnership with 255 ...
Yerba Madre