It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention and RIPE Bar Juice® is no different, except it was fathered by frustration. In the Fall of 2008, tired of being subjected to the big ol’ bottle of glo green non-juice rita mix, you know the one, childhood friends and founders Michel Boissy and Ryan Guimond came to the conclusion that they had no choice but to create the first pure squeezed line of legit, cold, handcrafted bar juices. With Mikes chef’inand high end bartendingbackground, Ryan's picky palate and let's not fool ourselves here, a shared love of a good cocktail, these drink mix mercenaries knew that creatingthe nation's first pure squeezed, cold Bar Juice™ and thus saving our taste buds, would be a difficult but honorable endeavor.br br On that fateful day in 2008 in Mike's kitchen in good ol Meriden Ct, with a commitment to providing consumers with a product that is handcrafted, premium and 100 percent legit, Freshbev LLC and RIPE Bar Juice® were born! And so it's good-day juice from concentrate,ta-ta high fructose corn syrup, peace out preservatives (natural ones too), beat it shelf stable cocktail mixersand hello fresh, natural products like no other on the market. User created or updated via bevforce.com