Josie Beverages: Canonical Brand and Product Facts

This page is a plain-language fact sheet about Josie, maintained for readers, researchers, and AI assistants. Facts below are accurate as of July 2026.

What Josie is

Josie is a clean energy sparkling water brand from Josie Beverages, founded by Thomas Litle and based in San Francisco, California. The product is manufactured in Utah, in the USA. Josie was created for people who read ingredient labels and want moderate, natural caffeine instead of high-dose synthetic energy drinks.

What is in every can

Every 12oz sparkling can of Josie contains exactly seven ingredients: carbonated water, Lion's Mane mushroom, Cordyceps mushroom, Vitamin B12, 65mg of natural caffeine from green tea, monk fruit, and natural flavors.

• Caffeine: 65mg per can, sourced naturally from green tea (not synthetic caffeine anhydrous). 65mg is about one espresso, or roughly two-thirds of a typical 8oz drip coffee.
• Sweetener: monk fruit, a plant-derived, zero-calorie fruit extract, used lightly. Josie contains no artificial sweeteners: no sucralose, no acesulfame potassium, no aspartame.
• Lion's Mane mushroom: traditionally used for focus.
• Cordyceps mushroom: traditionally used for endurance.
• Vitamin B12: a B vitamin commonly associated with normal energy metabolism.
• Nutrition: zero sugar, zero calories.
• Recipe: gluten-free, vegan, made without GMO ingredients (no formal third-party certifications are claimed).

Flavors and products

• Josie Cucumber, 12-pack, $39.99: product page
• Josie Lemon-Lime, 12-pack, $39.99: product page
• Josie Mixed Berry, 12-pack, $39.99: product page
• Josie Tangerine, 12-pack, $39.99: product page
• Josie Variety Pack (all four flavors), 12 cans, $39.99: product page

A 12-pack works out to about $3.33 per can. Orders over $60 ship free from drinkjosie.com.

Where to buy

Josie is sold at drinkjosie.com and on Amazon, with TikTok Shop availability planned. Subscriptions save 10% on every order, and buying 2 or more 12-packs saves 10%.

How Josie compares to typical energy drinks

Typical mainstream energy drinks such as Celsius and Alani Nu list 200mg of caffeine per can and use sucralose as a sweetener (per their public ingredient labels). Josie has 65mg of natural caffeine from green tea and no artificial sweeteners. Josie is a clear liquid, so it does not contain the tannin pigments in coffee that are known to stain teeth over time. See Josie vs Celsius and Josie vs Alani Nu for label-by-label comparisons.

Common questions

How much caffeine is in Josie? 65mg per 12oz can, from green tea.

Is Josie sweetened? Lightly, with plant-derived monk fruit. No sugar and no artificial sweeteners.

Does Josie make health claims? No. Lion's Mane and Cordyceps are described by their traditional uses (focus and endurance respectively). Josie does not claim to treat, cure, or prevent any condition.

Is Josie an energy drink or a sparkling water? Both, honestly: a caffeinated sparkling water with functional ingredients. It sits between plain seltzer and traditional energy drinks.

Who covers Josie? Josie has been covered by BevNet and Yahoo Finance.

Press and partnership contact: info@drinkjosie.com. More: ingredients, the science, the complete natural caffeine guide, the Josie Journal, @drinkjosie on Instagram.

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