A row of POPSMITH Sodawater bottles: Birch Beer, Black Cherry, Cream Vanilla, Grape Ade and LemLime Ade
Formulator & Bottler · Hoboken, NJ · Scranton, PA

We put the time
into every bottle.

Eight cane sugar sodas from the brothers who took their grandfather’s birch beer national. In 12 oz glass, and on fountain, installed for you.

The lineup

Eight flavors. Every one made with cane, never with corn.

Six full-flavored classics and two lighter sparkling Ades at 50 calories. Every one in 12 oz glass and on the POPSMITH fountain tower. Tap a flavor for the full label.

Flavor names, nutrition and ingredients as printed on POPSMITH’s labels. Per 12 fl oz bottle.

Our story

A beverage startup with roots that date back to the 1800s.

Great flavors just aren’t good enough. Four generations of craft, from a one-man birch beer route to a national brand, and now the next chapter.

1930s

A driver buys the business.

Our grandfather drove a truck for a small soda company in Paterson, New Jersey, hauling kegs of birch beer to bars, hot dog stands, banquet halls and town picnics. Eventually he bought it, a true one-man operation. He took care of his customers seven days a week.

Two men mixing birch beer at a keg, black and white
After school

Learning in the mixing room.

Every day after high school, he’d pick Ron up and take him to the plant to sanitize and fill those same kegs. Ron worked his way up to the mixing room, learning formulation and batching. After graduation he took over the company full time.

A family photo from the Fiorina archive
1986

Two brothers take it national.

Mark Fiorina joined as a partner after college. Together they introduced 12 oz glass bottles and built national distribution through independent beverage wholesalers. Mark, a professional beverage formulator, developed every flavor they launched.

Standing beside a vintage delivery truck painted with a ginger ale logo
2026

POPSMITH, the next chapter.

Thick glass, real cane sugar, natural flavors, and never cutting corners on ingredients. Fifty years of beverage development and more than 100 essential oils mastered, in a brand that is a tribute to the past and a push into the future.

An antique balance scale beside vintage blue seltzer bottles
“We’ll always take the longer, more challenging path if it leads to a better-tasting, more satisfying drink.”
POPSMITH
The fountain program

Natural fountain soda, installed for you.

POPSMITH installs post-mix fountain dispensers. Our natural fountain beverages are made without artificial preservatives or artificial dyes, in 5 gallon Bag-in-Box.

01

Site survey

We look at your counter, your volume and your menu, and suggest a lineup.

02

We install

The tower, the lines and the flavor labels, set up and tested by us.

03

You pour

Your guests get a craft soda they can’t get at the place next door.

04

We keep you stocked

Reorder from your phone, and we watch your levels so you never run dry.

POPSMITH Sodawater twist-off bottle cap

Made with cane. Never with corn.

It says so on every label. Thick glass bottles, real cane sugar and natural flavors, the same code the brothers have followed for decades.

Vintage delivery truck painted with a ginger ale logoFrom the Fiorina family archive
Distributors and retailers

Built national once, through partners like you.

The founders grew their last brand across the country through a network of independent beverage wholesalers. POPSMITH is building that network again, one territory at a time.

  • Eight flavors in 12 oz glass, plus natural fountain syrups in 5 gallon Bag-in-Box
  • A heritage story your accounts already know how to sell
  • A partner portal for orders, price sheets and marketing material

Pour something worth the wait.

Tell us about your place, your volume and the flavors you have in mind. We’ll come back with a lineup and a time for a site survey.