About Us

We started brewing soda in early 2001, concocting a variety of flavors for friends at a home pop tasting. At that time, we owned a mobile kitchen and vended at Vermont events and celebrations with a full menu of gourmet and natural foods--and artificial canned sodas. With some homebrewing equipment, a five gallon brew pot, hand crank juicer and an old fashioned soda pop book, we came up with recipes for natural soda using fresh fruits, roots, herbs and cane sugar.

In 2003, we started bottling Pop Soda from a single-head manual bottle filler in our home kitchen. We sold the mobile kitchen to raise money for a seven barrel micro soda brewery, comprised of used components purchased from small New England beer breweries. We sampled local retailers door to door, self distributed Pop Soda locally, and participated in local farmers markets, forming face-to-face relationships with retailers and customers.

In 2006, we were evaluating ways to increase production and contacted Otter Creek Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont. We developed a plan to brew and bottle Pop Soda at Otter Creek's Brewery, converting our original seven barrel brewery into expanded space to juice fresh citrus fruits, house Pop Soda inventory and sample customers at our retail shop. Once the fruits are juiced, we now head across the Green Mountains to Middlebury, where we brew Pop Soda and oversee the bottling operation at Otter Creek's facility.

In the early days of Pop Soda, our friends at the Red Hen Baking Company in Duxbury, VT helped deliver our product in their bread vans. We continue to work with independent, local distributors and source our honey from French Hill apiaries in St. Albans, VT. We are grateful for local support and for the opportunity to grow with the help of local businesses!