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Brown Sugar Lemonade

Brown Sugar
Lemonade

when life gives you lemons, be the main squeeze.

The Stand

Pick your base.

Three foundations. Every flavor profile builds from one. The spelling of the third one is intentional — that one's ours.

Founding Cup

Lemonade

The original. Bright lemon, brown sugar, cold ice. The one the whole brand was built around. This is DC in a cup.

Why it's on the board

This is the founding cup — the one the whole brand was built around, and the one whose proceeds fund Brown Sugar Babies.

Flavor of the Week
Matcha Brown Sugar Lemonade

Matcha

Lemonade base, matcha instead of straight citrus — earthy, slightly bitter, balanced by brown sugar. Here this week only.

Up next: Tamarind
Culture Connoisseur

Culture Connoisseur.

Every profile is a geography, a memory, a people. Pick your base. Build your cup. Know where it came from.

ATL Edition — Georgia

Southern Collection

Georgia peach is not a metaphor — it's grown in real Georgia dirt. The South gave us the peach and the Black Mecca. This collection honors both.

  • Georgia PeachLemonade · fresh peach · brown sugar
  • Sweet Tea SqueezeLemonade · sweet tea reduction · honey note
  • Blackberry BrambleLeimonade · fresh blackberry · brown sugar
Island Edition — The Diaspora

Caribbean Collection

For the diaspora that built this city. These flavors carry islands in them.

  • Gyalis GingerLimeade · lime · cucumber · mint · ginger
  • Top StrikerLemonade · fresh mango · passion fruit · brown sugar
  • TwinkleLimeade · tamarind · brown sugar
DC Edition — Home

DMV Collection

Half the city is from somewhere else. The other half never left. This collection is for people who grew up in the DMV and know exactly what this city tastes like when it's ours.

  • Go-Go GingerLeimonade · ginger · brown sugar · lime zest
  • Bounce Beet BlackberryLemonade · beet · fresh blackberry · brown sugar
  • Watermelon MamboLimeade · fresh watermelon · brown sugar · lime zest
  • Everything is a Lot™Leimonade · watermelon · pineapple · mint · lime zest · molasses drizzle — $1 entry, winner gets the quart
The Mission

We are the human resource.

“Hunger disrupts the brain. Poverty alters the thought process.”

— The Human Resources Project

Brown Sugar Lemonade is the fundraising arm of The Human Resources Project — reinvesting directly in Black neurodivergent communities that built this city and never got the return. Every cup pours back.

Brown Sugar Babies

The original DC.

Brown Sugar Babies is the official youth membership program of Brown Sugar Lemonade — built for DC natives. Part Girl Scouts, part Boy Scouts, all DC.

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and growing. DC natives, celebrated by name.

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How It Works

Join. Earn. Shine.

01

Enroll as a Member

DC-area kids sign up and get their official Brown Sugar Babies profile.

02

Earn Achievements

Academic milestones, community service, creative work, leadership, stand internship hours — every win gets posted.

03

Rise Through the Ranks

Seedling → Squeeze → Squad → Connoisseur. You put in the work, the brand puts you on.

04

Honor Roll

Every quarter the top achievers get spotlit on the site, at the stand, and on socials.

The Pour Back

Every cup counts.

0Lemons squeezed
0Community pop-ups
0Fundraisers completed
0Kegs in rotation
Make America Brown Again

Brown isn't a color. It's a return. They refined everything — the sugar, the neighborhoods, the people. We're putting it back.

Make America Brown Again Built by us. Made for our community.
Catch the Stand

Where we're pulling up.

Pick a date. If we're there, the transfer updates with the time, the place, and when the window closes.

Month Year
SMTWTFS
National Capital Lemonade Transfer
Window closes
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Pick a date on the calendar
Dates with a dot have a pop-up.
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The Transfer

You already know what this is.

If you know, you know. Proof you were here. Proof the city ran on people like us long before it got pretty.

National Capital Lemonade Transfer
Get In

Scan. Pay. Get rewarded.

Squeeze Account

Load it. Scan it. Sip it. Every member gets a QR-backed account to pay at the stand and earn Drops on every purchase.

10Drops = free cup
25FOTW early access
50Raffle entry
In-person QR at pop-ups
Squeeze Account in development
Drops rewards tracking in development
Brown Sugar Babies

Enroll a DC native.

Sign up your child for the Brown Sugar Babies program. We'll reach out with enrollment details when the full program launches.

Interests

DC natives only. Info used for BSB program enrollment only.

Get the drop first

Text & Email alerts.

Flavor drops, release parties, raffle entries, exclusive access. Sign up once and you're in.

What do you want to hear about?

Your number stays between you and the stand. No spam, no selling your info.

Book the Stand

Bring us to your block.

We show up. We squeeze. The money goes back to the community. And it travels.