About us

One shelf for a category nobody had organised

HempBeverages.com is a curated marketplace for the best hemp-derived THC and CBD beverages in America. Every drink we carry is third-party lab-tested, Farm Bill-compliant, and on the shelf because we would actually drink it ourselves — 30+ brands, more than 180 ways to feel good without the hangover.

Why we exist

Hemp beverages are the fastest-growing alcohol alternative in the country, and the category is a mess to shop. Dozens of brands, no shared vocabulary for dose, and lab results that are either buried or missing.

We built HempBeverages.com to be the place that fixes that: clear dosing, public COAs, honest comparisons, and one cart for the whole category. We do not have a house label to push, which means we have no reason to steer you anywhere except the drink you will actually like.

The category, in numbers

This is not a trend piece. In 2025 the category posted its first independently verified sales data, and it reads like an established business rather than a novelty.

  • +133%

    Volume growth year over year — 692,435 to 1,616,075 case equivalents

  • 305,653

    Points of distribution, up 129%, across 43,496 retail accounts

  • +12%

    Velocity rose even as the account base grew 72% — stores that started carrying these drinks kept reordering, and reordered more

  • 6–10mg

    Overtook 10mg-plus as the leading dose — the signature of a category moving from enthusiasts to everyday drinkers

Source: Hemp Beverage Alliance, The Future of Drinking: The Hemp Beverage Marketplace 2024–2025 (2026), with data from VIP. We break the findings down in this article.

Who's behind it

Three partners: distribution muscle, operating discipline, and the regulatory rigour to keep both honest.

  • Co-founder

    Chad Zani

    Functional Portfolio Director at Mexcor, one of the country's established beverage importers and distributors. Chad brings the distribution and supply-chain authority behind our nationwide sourcing — and the relationships that put the category's best brands on our shelf.

  • CEO & Managing Director

    Jason Hurkmans

    Jason runs operations, e-commerce, brand and account development — the day-to-day engine behind the store and everything a customer actually touches.

  • Co-founder

    Adam Abodeely

    Adam guides strategy, scientific positioning and regulatory — keeping our compliance and our category education grounded, accurate and defensible.

What we stand for

  • Lab-tested, always

    Every product carries a public Certificate of Analysis, hosted by us rather than linked off to a vendor's site, so it cannot quietly change after you have read it.

  • Start low, go slow

    Clear dosing and honest guidance over hype. If you are not sure where to begin, our dose calculator shows its working.

  • 21+ and compliant

    Hemp-derived Delta-9 under federal limits, age verification on every order, and restricted states blocked at checkout rather than discouraged with a notice. See Where We Ship.

  • No house label

    We do not make a drink of our own, so we have nothing to push. Every recommendation on this site is a recommendation, not an inventory problem.

Questions, a brand you think we should carry, or something on this site that reads wrong? Get in touch — one of the three of us reads every message, and you'll get a reply from a name, not a ticket number.