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Where to Buy
Not Your Father's Root Beer is stocked at 565 licensed dispensaries across California, with the deepest coverage in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, and Santa Ana. Search by ZIP code or city below to find the closest one, or filter by product type if you are after a specific format.
Market Insights Snapshot
In August 2026, Not Your Father's Root Beer concentrated 98.77% of sales in Beverage, with Edible holding 1.23%, indicating a near single-category footprint. Beverage grew 39.81% year over year while slipping 2.50% month over month, and Edible rose 87.16% year over year while declining 3.87% month over month. With overall brand sales up 40.25% year over year alongside a 4.17% average price decrease, the mix implies volume-led expansion within Beverage despite a short-term pullback, while Edible remains too small to buffer monthly volatility.
The category tilt supports a clear positioning: brand equity is anchored in Beverage where the rank is 3 in California, but the 2.50% month-over-month dip in Beverage combined with a 3.87% month-over-month dip in Edible suggests sensitivity to monthly demand rather than price integrity, given the 4.17% price deflation. Because Edible’s 87.16% year-over-year growth only lifts a 1.23% share, the path to defensibility runs through deepening Beverage penetration and stabilizing month-to-month churn, not diversifying into small adjacencies.
Competitive Landscape
Not Your Father's Root Beer sits at #3 in CA Beverage in August 2026, unchanged YoY from #3, and unchanged over the last three months from #3 to #3; this stability contrasts with St Ides holding #1 with a 11.8% sales YoY increase and Uncle Arnie's holding #2 with a 26.0% YoY lift, while Almora Farms moved up from #6 to #4 and CANN Social Tonics advanced from #9 to #5 with 286.3% YoY growth; with a peak rank of #3 in August 2026 and no rank change from the prior year, the pattern implies a defensible share but limited upward mobility unless displacement of #2 or #1 occurs.
Notable Products
Alpine Splash Live Resin Soda (100mg THC, 16oz) posted the steepest move in August 2026 with a -19.1% month-over-month decline while holding rank 3, as Root Beer Soda (100mg THC, 16oz, 355ml) slipped -2.5% at rank 1. CBD/THC 1:4 Orange Cream Live Resin Soda (25mg CBD, 100mg THC, 16oz) rose 4.5% to rank 2, outpacing the near-flat -0.1% shift for Cherry Cola Live Resin Soda (100mg THC, 16oz) at rank 4. Eight of the top ten are Beverage SKUs concentrated in 100mg THC sodas, with the 10mg Root Beer Soda (12oz) up 3.3% at rank 8, indicating a portfolio still anchored in high-dose formats with limited traction for lower-dose variants.
Within functional blends, the CBD/THC 1:1 Orange Cream Live Resin Soda grew 8.6% at rank 6 while the CBG/THC 1:1 Fruit Punch Live Resin Soda gained 4.3% at rank 7, contrasting with the -1.5% dip for the CBG/THC 1:5 Fruit Punch Live Resin Soda at rank 5. Fruit Punch Soda (100mg THC, 16oz, 355ml) was essentially flat at +0.2% in rank 9, and the CBG/THC 4:1 Fruit Punch Live Resin Soda entered at rank 10 with no prior-month baseline on $11,058. The pattern implies that balanced CBD/THC profiles are adding incremental lift while single-attribute CBG variants lag, signaling emphasis should tilt toward balanced formulations within the 100mg THC core.
Top Selling Cannabis Brands
Data for this report comes from real-time sales reporting by participating cannabis retailers via their point-of-sale systems, which are linked up with Headset’s business intelligence software. Headset’s data is very reliable, as it comes digitally direct from our partner retailers. However, the potential does exist for misreporting in the instance of duplicates, incorrectly classified products, inaccurate entry of products into point-of-sale systems, or even simple human error at the point of purchase. Thus, there is a slight margin of error to consider. Brands listed on this page are ranked in the top twenty within the market and product category by total retail sales volume.
