My mom used to call hemp a scam. You know the products — CBD pillow sprays, adaptogen teas, infused seltzers that cost $9 and taste like static. She’s the most grounded person I know, and not just because she insists on mowing our entire ranch’s pasture herself in 101-degree Texas heat. While I’m in the garden talking to cherry tomatoes, she’s out there doing the kind of manual labor that would send most people (me) to urgent care, drinking convenience store energy drinks like they’re green juice.
Earlier this year, we tapered off the alcohol — me for six months, her for a full year — and it left a little gap in the ritual. The small punctuation mark at the end of the day. The I shoveled cow patties for two hours, and I deserve bubbles moment. Enter: Cornbread Hemp’s infused drinks.
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Cornbread Hemp’s infused sparkling drinks are 12-ounce cans of lightly flavored, all-natural, sourced refreshment, made with active ingredients sourced from the hemp plant in Kentucky. Available in four subtly sweet flavors, these beverages are low-sugar, low-calorie, and non-caffeinated, offering a clean, fizzy alternative to alcohol, energy drinks, or overly sweet mocktails.
The carbonation is soft but satisfying, and the flavors are refreshingly natural— no synthetic aftertaste or mystery ingredients here. They’re designed for adults 21+ and only ship across the US (except Idaho and Utah), so double-check your local laws before you try to stock up.
Size: 12 fl ounce per can | Strength: 5 milligrams or 10 milligrams | Flavors: Raspberry Limeade, Peach Iced Tea, Salted Watermelon, Blueberry Breeze | Sweeteners: 5mg of sugar | Hemp: all-natural Kentucky-grown extract | Age Requirement: 21+ | Shipping: Varies by state (check local legislation)
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My largely public affinity for Cornbread Hemp aside, I had yet to meet a hemp seltzer I actually wanted to finish, much less spend money on. But what started as routine product testing on one particularly brutal day (limping horse, garden hose explosion, dead snake incident…classic Tuesday) quickly turned into a pleasantly unexpected discovery.
It was a hemp seltzer that didn’t make me feel out of control, didn’t have some offensive drawing on the can, and didn’t taste like dirt and maraschino cherries.
I handed Mom a cold can of Cornbread and said, “Just try it.”
It might as well have been a rattlesnake. Her face said it all: What is this? Am I going to get loopy? Am I going to taste it?
“Trust me, you’ll like it.”
And as though I were Aladdin, she actually grabbed the can from my outstretched arm, squinted at the label, and cracked it open. “It smells better than LaCroix,” which is high praise coming from a woman who once said still water “tastes bad.” She took a sip. Then another. Then, the most aftertaste-sensitive woman in America smiled and silently wandered off to do her next chore. Twenty minutes later, I walked over to the horse pasture to find her softly humming Katy Perry and going about her work like it wasn’t hard labor. That’s how I knew she liked it.
We’ve since developed a new ritual: vineyard-tending and mini cow-wrangling by day, clean cans of Cornbread and front porch debriefs by night. She now calls them her drinks.
Cornbread Hemp’s infused sparkling beverages are surprisingly elegant, not in a pearls-and-white-tablecloth kind of way, but in the sense that everything in them just…works. The flavors are understated and fresh — no fake sugar or vegetal aftertaste and none of that bitter, over-extracted hemp taste that wrecks most drinks in this category. The Raspberry Lime flavor is crisp and bright, and Salted Watermelon (my favorite) tastes like summer in a can. Think fresh-picked, not candy with a shelf life.
Cornbread Hemp’s Seltzer Variety Pack is the easiest way to sample the brand’s full lineup of infused sparkling beverages, featuring all four subtly flavored options (Raspberry Limeade, Blueberry Breeze, Peach Iced Tea, and Salted Watermelon).
Choose from a pack of 4, 8 12, or 24 cans, all with 5mg of clean Kentucky-grown hemp extract. All cans give you 12 ounces of a crisp, and fizzy grown-up alternative to alcohol (or overly sweet mocktails for that matter) in one curated box.
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Each 12-ounce can is made from all-natural ingredients, including Kentucky-grown hemp extract, so they’re clean, no-nonsense, and designed for grown-ups who care about ingredient lists (or maybe even grow their own cherry tomatoes). Each can has only 6 ingredients that you can actually pronounce. There’s no caffeine, no added sugar, and just the right amount of fizz. Not the kind that burns your throat. More like a tiny celebration.
I’ve tried many infused drinks over the past couple of years, and this one is easily the best-tasting. No, I’m not kidding. Some of them feel like you have to endure the taste for the reward. This one? The taste is the reward. I genuinely crave it at the end of the day, and not in a something’s missing from my bloodstream kind of way, but in a doing dishes is actually pretty meditative kind of way. The best part? I wake up the next morning ready to go, no hangovers, no brain fog.
If you’re cutting back on alcohol, hate how sugary most mocktails are, or just want something that feels a little special in your hand after a long day, Cornbread Hemp should be your first option. I’ve brought them to friends and enjoy them during slow evenings at the ranch, solo painting sessions in the garage and porch hangs with my mom. They fit into all of them. It’s discreet, elegant, and satisfying without being sugary or heavy.
I recommend starting off with one beverage and waiting a bit to see if you’d like to indulge more to receive your desired effect. Just make sure you’re 21+ before you try it — and definitely check your state’s laws before ordering. Not every place is equally cool with infused drinks just yet.
This article was written by Kendall Cornish, New York Post Commerce Editor & Reporter. Kendall, who moonlights as a private chef in the Hamptons for New York elites, lends her expertise to testing and recommending cooking products – for beginners and aspiring sous chefs alike. Simmering and seasoning her way through both jobs, Kendall dishes on everything from the best cookware for your kitchen to chef-approved gourmet meal kits to the full suite of Ninja appliances. Prior to joining the Post’s shopping team in 2023, Kendall previously held positions at Apartment Therapy and at Dotdash Meredith’s Travel + Leisure and Departures magazines.
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