Infused Coffee
Regular brew, cold brew, and nitro cold brew options for brands that want a differentiated THC beverage with a strong daily-use occasion.
Explore infused coffee →White-Label • Private-Label • Custom Beverage Development
White-label THC beverage manufacturing under your brand
Next Level Leaf helps beverage founders, cannabis operators, hemp brands, retailers, and brand builders move from product idea to a production-ready beverage plan.
Explore hemp-derived THC, CBD, and functional beverage manufacturing across white-label, private-label, and custom development paths, with support for product format, dose, flavor, packaging, testing, COA documentation, and quote-ready launch planning.
Built for B2B brands
From concept to cans
Multiple beverage lanesCoffee, seltzers, sodas, real-fruit beverages, mocktails, functional drinks, and custom RTD concepts.
Launch with directionFormat, dose, flavor, packaging, testing, COAs, and quote planning.
White-label hemp-derived THC beverage manufacturing lets you launch a beverage under your own brand without building a production facility from scratch. Next Level Leaf helps you evaluate the right format, dose, flavor, packaging, testing, compliance documentation, MOQ path, and production strategy so you can move from idea to a quote-ready beverage project.
Start with the product decision
Choose the beverage format your customer will understand fastest
The best beverage launch usually starts with a clear customer occasion. Is your brand building around morning coffee, social sipping, a retail cooler soda, a bar-replacement mocktail, a real-fruit beverage, or a functional wellness occasion?
Once you have a clear use case or occasion for the beverage, the next step is choosing the format. From there, we can help you think through dose, flavor, can size, quantity, packaging, testing, COAs, and production timing.
How we help
Turn your beverage idea into a real product plan
- We help you compare white-label, private-label, and custom development options.
- We help match your beverage idea to a realistic MOQ and production path.
- We help you think through flavor, dose, onset, stability, and packaging.
- We help organize testing, batch-specific COAs, and documentation expectations.
- We help you prepare the information needed to request a clear white-label quote.
Beverage formats
Explore white-label and private-label beverage options
Each beverage format creates a different brand story, retail opportunity, and production path. Start with the format that best fits your customer and brand direction. Then request a quote and we’ll help you think through the next steps.
THC Seltzers
Low-dose sparkling beverages designed for social sipping, fast-onset positioning, light flavor profiles, and alcohol-alternative retail sets.
Explore infused seltzers →Real-Fruit THC Beverages
Fruit-forward still or sparkling beverages built around real fruit puree, juice-style flavor, and a more premium ready-to-drink experience.
Explore real-fruit THC drinks →THC Sodas
Flavor-forward, nostalgic soda formats with strong retail clarity and familiar consumer positioning.
Explore infused sodas →THC Mocktails & Spritzers
Adult alcohol-alternative beverages for brands building around bar replacement, social occasions, and cocktail-inspired flavor profiles.
Explore infused mocktails →Functional & Adaptogenic Drinks
Functional beverage concepts with or without hemp-derived THC, built around focus, energy, calm, recovery, mushrooms, adaptogens, caffeine, and other ingredient systems.
Explore functional coffee →Non-Infused & Functional RTD Beverages
Not every project has to include cannabinoids. We can also discuss non-infused coffee, functional beverages, sodas, teas, lemonades, and broader RTD concepts when they fit your brand strategy.
Ask about your beverage concept →White-label vs custom
Choose the launch path that fits your stage
Some brands want the fastest path to finished cans. Others need a more custom beverage with a specific flavor, ingredient stack, or functional direction. We help you compare the options so the quote reflects your timeline, budget, and differentiation goals.
White-label beverage launch
Best for brands that want to move faster with a more production-ready product direction, proven flavor architecture, and a clearer path to finished cans.
Request a white-label quote →Private-label positioning
Best for brands that want a product under their own label with more control over branding, packaging, retail positioning, and SKU strategy.
Compare white-label vs custom →Custom beverage development
Best when the flavor, ingredient stack, format, caffeine level, cannabinoid profile, or functional direction needs more development time.
Start a custom inquiry →Why Next Level Leaf
Launch, learn, and scale with a clearer beverage path
Next Level Leaf helps brands enter the hemp-derived THC beverage category without trying to figure out formulation, MOQ, packaging, testing, COA documentation, and production planning alone.
We help you turn hemp-derived THC, CBD, and functional beverage ideas into practical launch plans so you can choose the right format, identify the right dose and flavor direction, understand quote drivers, prepare useful documentation, and think through how the first run can support future reorders.
Our goal is to help you launch, learn from the market, and scale with a clearer path instead of overbuilding too early.
A guided path for new and growing beverage brands
A better path than trying to build a facility first
- Start with a realistic first production run instead of overbuilding too early.
- Use white-label options when speed matters and custom development when differentiation matters.
- Plan around adult-oriented packaging, finished-product testing, batch-specific COAs, and market-specific considerations.
- Use early market feedback to refine flavors, dose strategy, channel focus, and reorder planning.
Why brands choose this path
Build with a more professional beverage launch system
For a strong beverage launch, the goal is not just finished cans. The goal is to create a beverage that is easier to understand, easier to sell, and easier to support with documentation.
Format clarity
Choose a product lane that makes sense for your customer and channel before you spend money on production.
Testing & COAs
Batch-specific documentation, finished-product testing, and clear records can support retailer and distributor confidence.
Adult-oriented packaging
Professional packaging and responsible claims matter when you want a credible beverage brand, not a novelty product.
Scalable thinking
Start with a realistic first run, learn from the market, and prepare for reorder, regional, or multi-state growth.
Quote factors
What affects a white-label THC beverage quote?
A useful quote starts with practical project details. The more clearly you define the beverage, the easier it is to evaluate cost, timing, production fit, and the next step.
Beverage format
Coffee, seltzer, soda, mocktail, tea, lemonade, real-fruit beverages, and functional drinks have different ingredient, carbonation, still-beverage, packaging, and production considerations.
Target dose
Potency affects input costs, flavor balance, onset strategy, testing expectations, and how the finished product should be positioned.
White-label vs custom
Production-ready flavor directions usually move faster. Custom formulas, functional stacks, and new flavor systems may require more development time, but they can be a strong fit when differentiation matters.
Packaging path
Pressure-sensitive labels, label-ready cans, printed cans, cartons, and retail display needs can all change timing and project scope.
First-run quantity
MOQ, SKU count, pallet planning, and launch volume affect the economics of the project and the path for the first production run.
Testing & COAs
Finished-product testing, batch-specific COAs, ingredient records, and clear documentation can support retailer and distributor confidence.
Target markets
Hemp-derived THC beverage rules can vary by state, so it helps to know where you plan to sell first. Final market, label, and distribution decisions should be reviewed with qualified legal counsel.
Timeline
Packaging readiness, formulation needs, ingredient availability, testing, freight, and production scheduling all influence how quickly a project can move.
Process
How the beverage launch path works
You do not need every technical answer before reaching out. The goal of the first step is to gather enough detail to scope the project intelligently, help you understand your options, and make the next decision easier.
Step 01
Define the beverage
Choose the product direction: coffee, seltzer, soda, mocktail, functional drink, real-fruit beverage, non-infused beverage, still beverage, carbonated beverage, or custom RTD concept. We can help you narrow the options.
Step 02
Clarify dose, flavor & market
Identify the target dose if infused, flavor direction, can size, likely sales channel, and customer occasion.
Step 03
Scope production
Map the project around MOQ, input costs, packaging, testing, COAs, production timing, and finished-goods expectations so you can understand what it may take to launch and scale.
Step 04
Move toward launch
Use the quote to understand your options, make decisions, finalize packaging and production details, and move toward finished inventory under your brand.
What to prepare
Make the quote conversation more useful
You do not need a finished formula before reaching out, but the quote process works best when the core business details are as clear as possible.
- Beverage format and flavor direction.
- Infused, non-infused, or functional beverage concept.
- Target dose or cannabinoid profile, if applicable.
- Preferred can size, estimated first-run quantity, and timeline.
- Whether you are interested in white-label, private-label, or custom development.
You do not need every answer before reaching out. The form is designed to help start the conversation.
Compliance note
Hemp-derived THC beverage requirements vary by state
Hemp-derived THC beverage requirements can vary by state, including product limits, labeling expectations, age-gating, retail channel rules, testing requirements, and enforcement priorities.
Next Level Leaf is not a law firm, and this page is not legal advice. Brands should review their target markets with qualified legal counsel before finalizing product claims, labels, distribution, and retail strategy.
Resource paths
Learn before you request a quote
These resources can help you think through your product idea and make better decisions before moving into pricing and production.
Learning Center
Browse the full resource library for beverage founders, including coffee, sodas, seltzers, real-fruit beverages, mocktails, formulation, compliance, and launch strategy.
Explore the Learning Center →Pricing
Understand what usually affects cost before the project reaches a detailed quote.
Review pricing factors →Compliance
Learn how testing, COAs, claims, packaging, and documentation support a serious beverage brand.
Review compliance approach →Capabilities
See the broader production capabilities behind white-label and private-label infused beverage projects.
Explore capabilities →Process
Review how a beverage project moves from product direction to quote, production planning, and finished goods.
Review the process →State Resources
Evaluate state-specific hemp beverage considerations before choosing markets and channels.
Explore state resources →FAQ
Frequently asked questions
These answers help founders understand how to move from beverage idea to white-label quote request.
Next Level Leaf helps brands explore white-label and private-label hemp-derived THC beverages including infused coffee, nitro cold brew, seltzers, sodas, real-fruit beverages, mocktails, spritzers, teas, lemonades, functional drinks, non-infused beverages, and custom RTD beverage concepts.
No. A finished formula is helpful but not required. You can start by sharing the beverage format, flavor direction, target dose if infused, preferred can size, estimated first-run quantity, timeline, and whether you are interested in white-label, private-label, or custom development.
White-label usually starts from a more production-ready product direction. Private-label focuses on selling the beverage under your own brand and packaging. Custom development is used when the flavor, functional stack, cannabinoid profile, or product architecture requires additional formulation work.
Yes. Real-fruit THC beverages can be scoped as still or sparkling fruit-forward drinks using real fruit puree, juice-style flavor, or a more premium ready-to-drink beverage direction when the format fits the brand and production path.
Cost is affected by beverage format, target dose, cannabinoid inputs, flavor system, custom development needs, packaging format, testing requirements, order quantity, freight, and production timing.
MOQ depends on the beverage format, SKU count, packaging path, and whether the project uses a production-ready product direction or custom development. Many projects are scoped around a first production run per SKU, with custom or prototype work handled separately when needed.
Timeline depends on formula readiness, packaging path, ingredient availability, testing, production scheduling, freight, and how quickly required project details are approved. White-label projects generally move faster than custom formulation projects.
Yes. Testing, batch-specific COAs, finished-product documentation, and clear records are important parts of launching a professional hemp-derived THC beverage brand.
Next Level Leaf can help brands think through packaging path, can size, pressure-sensitive labels, printed cans, cartons, adult-oriented design expectations, and quote planning. Final label claims and compliance should be reviewed with qualified legal counsel.
Yes. Many beverage concepts can be scoped as infused or non-infused products. Non-infused coffee, functional drinks, sodas, teas, lemonades, real-fruit beverages, and other RTD beverages may be useful for brands that want a broader product line or a non-cannabinoid option.
Prepare your beverage format, flavor direction, target dose if infused, preferred can size, estimated launch quantity, desired timeline, and whether you want white-label, private-label, or custom development support. You do not need every answer before reaching out.