Every Sip Carries
Over a Century
of Pure Craft

When the first bottling house opened its doors on Birch Street in the winter of 1895, Hancock was a town forged by copper miners and railroad workers — people who valued honest labor and honest flavors.

The founders believed that a soda shouldn't require a chemistry degree to understand. So they kept it simple: spring water from the Great Lakes watershed, real cane sugar, natural extracts, and a whole lot of patience. The result was a root beer so smooth it became the standard by which every other soda in the Upper Peninsula was judged.

Over a century and a quarter later, those same recipes still flow from our copper-clad bottling line. We've grown, yes — but we've never compromised. Every bottle that leaves our facility carries the same promise it did in 1895: nothing artificial, nothing rushed, nothing less than perfect.