Right Coast Brands, Llc

What Right Coast Brands, Llc does

Right Coast Brands, LLC is a beverage co-manufacturing company that partners with early-stage and growth-stage beverage brands to produce, fill, and package alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. Founded in 2023 by Andrew Guard — co-founder of Culture Pop Soda and founder of Winch and Pulley — the company is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts, and operates a tiered three-facility production network: Tier 1 Launch in Framingham, MA (100 CPM line, 24 CPM pilot, 300-gallon minimums); Tier 2 Grow in Seabrook, NH (300 CPM, 750+ BBL, hot fill and pasteurization); and Tier 3 Scale in Milwaukee, WI (5,000+ cases MOQ, 240 BBL tanks, enterprise capacity). The network holds a comprehensive compliance stack across all sites, including DSP, Farmer Brewery, Winery, bonded warehouse, USDA Organic, OU Kosher, SQF certification (Seabrook), and GMP/SOP systems, covering beverage categories including beer, FMB, Delta 9, hemp, N/A, spirits, and wine.

The company's core technology is its tiered physical production network, supplemented by a Launch Lab for R&D and sensory evaluation, and a Beverage Studio Program that provides formulation support, first commercial production runs, packaging guidance, and compliance documentation to a limited cohort of 6–8 pre-commercial brands per year. The platform is designed so a single brand relationship can carry a customer from first 300-gallon run through national-scale distribution without re-qualification at a new co-packer.

Right Coast Brands runs a selective, application-based go-to-market model (via a Tally.so intake form, no pitch deck required) that admits 5–8 brands per cohort based on stage, category, volume trajectory, and strategic fit. Revenue is generated through per-run transaction fees for co-manufacturing production services, with pricing quoted rather than publicly disclosed and minimum order quantities that scale from 300 gallons at Tier 1 to 5,000+ cases at Tier 3. The company is privately held with no disclosed external investors, no parent company, and no public financial filings; the full management team is not disclosed beyond the founder.

Name

Right Coast Brands, Llc

Legal name

Right Coast Brands, LLC

Website

https://rightcoast.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Right Coast Brands is a selective beverage co-manufacturer operating a three-facility tiered production network (Framingham, Seabrook, Milwaukee) that supports early- and growth-stage beverage brands from a 300-gallon first run through 5,000+ case national-scale production under one relationship and invoice.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Beverage Co-Manufacturing Services

NAICS

Beverage Manufacturing (3121)

SIC

Beverages (2080), Malt Beverages (2082)

akta.pro primary industry

Alcoholic Beverage Contract Manufacturing & Co-Packing (AFAFAAAI)

Keywords

• Beverage co-manufacturing
• Co-packing services
• Beverage production
• Contract manufacturing
• Beverage canning

Headquarters

HQ city

Framingham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Co-manufacturing Production Services: Charges for beverage production runs across their tiered facility network. Brands pay for manufacturing services with minimum run requirements starting at 300 gallons in Framingham, scaling to 5000+ case MOQs in Milwaukee.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Right Coast Brands is a selective beverage co-manufacturing partner that runs a tiered three-facility production network (Framingham, MA for launch-stage from 300 gallons; Seabrook, NH for growth-stage at 300 CPM; and Milwaukee, WI for national-scale at 5,000+ cases MOQ). The company produces alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages including beer, FMB, Delta 9, hemp, spirits, and wine under one relationship with a single invoice across all facilities.

Product overview

Right Coast Brands is a selective beverage co-manufacturing partner offering a tiered production network for early-stage and growth-stage brands. The core offering consists of three facilities (Framingham HQ for launch-stage brands from 300 gallons, New England Scale Hub for growth-stage brands, and Midwest Production Hub for national-scale operations), all coordinated through one relationship and invoice. The Beverage Studio Program provides additional high-touch support for pre-commercial brands. Supported categories include Beer, FMB, Delta 9, Hemp, N/A, Spirits, and Wine.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Beverage Co-Manufacturing Network
• RCB Production Network - Framingham HQ (Tier 1 - Launch)
• RCB Production Network - New England Scale Hub (Tier 2 - Grow)
• RCB Production Network - Midwest Production Hub (Tier 3 - Scale)
• Beverage Studio Program
• Compliance and Certification Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Never change co-packer from first run to national scale

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BevSource: BevSource is a direct peer offering full-service beverage development and contract manufacturing (co-packing) for emerging and growth-stage beverage brands, including formulation, ingredient sourcing, and production coordination across categories like beer, RTD, and functional beverages — directly comparable in customer profile and service model to Right Coast Brands.

Broad incumbents

• Refresco: Refresco is the world's largest independent beverage co-packer, producing a wide range of juices, sodas, waters, and alcoholic beverages across dozens of plants. As a broad incumbent, it competes on scale and category breadth rather than the founder-grade, small-batch accessibility that defines RCB.
• Primo Brands: Primo Brands (formed via the merger of Primo Water and Cott Corporation) operates extensive beverage manufacturing and bottling infrastructure across water, coffee, tea, and functional drinks. As a broad incumbent, it provides comparable contract manufacturing capabilities but at significantly larger scale than RCB.
• Niagara Bottling: Niagara Bottling is a large-scale U.S. beverage manufacturer producing bottled water, teas, and juices for retailer-owned and national brands. It represents the high-throughput end of beverage manufacturing that RCB differentiates against with its 300-gallon minimum Tier 1 offering.
• Crystal Geyser Water Company: Crystal Geyser Water Company is a major U.S. bottled water and beverage manufacturer with vertically integrated production capacity. It overlaps with RCB as a beverage manufacturer, though its scale and category focus differ from RCB's beer/spirits/wine co-manufacturing specialization.
• Tilray Brands: Tilray Brands (which acquired Craft Brew Alliance) operates beverage manufacturing and brand ownership across craft beer and adjacent categories. As a broad incumbent with brewery and production assets, it competes with RCB in beer and FMB contract manufacturing, though with a much broader brand portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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