Our Mission

Bring the Mountains Home™

North Drinkware exists to celebrate our love of the mountains and offer a connection between the places we play to the places we live.

We believe that sharing stories of adventure with a hand crafted product, made in the USA, brings friends, family and our community closer together.

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Our Values

The tenets that drive our business forward every day.

  • Make it Amazing

    We work with the best possible craftspeople in the US to bring our designs to life. Made in USA, inspired by the mountains.

  • Be Authentic

    Our products connect you to the places that matter to you in authentic ways. From accurate USGS data, to celebrating local artists, and supporting regional manufacturing.

  • Give Back

    Protecting the places we love is key to our brand and business. As proud partners of One Percent for the Planet every purchase gives back to the mountains.

From a side hustle to a strong local business.

We are a team of friends that together have over 30 years of experience in product design, engineering and marketing who live and work between Camas, WA, Bend and Portland, Oregon.


We explore the mountains, coast, trails and rivers as much as possible and the PNW is our home and our playground. With a great team of local suppliers and partners we are able to be a strong local business that prides ourselves on being a great partner and giving back whenever we can well beyond our One Percent for the Planet partnership.

  • Matt Capozzi and Nic Ramirez share the role of Co-Founder and lead all of our product planning, design and manufacturing. Leigh Capozzi, also a Co-Founder has moved on to lead the Marketing team at Protect Our Winters.

  • Kendrick VanEe, our marketing and brand expert leads all of our marketing, advertising and partnership efforts and drives North forward every day.

Building North

How it all started.

The original mountain glass started as an idea. A way to connect the things we loved to a product that we wanted to make. This is the story of how it all started. From the first glimmer of our idea through our trials and tribulations and ultimately to our success on Kickstarter and beyond.

2014

The Big Idea

Nic and Matt were looking for a creative outlet and landed on a big idea that blended some of our favorite things: Local craft beer + Deep love of the mountains // Product innovation + Premium design // All things made in the USA. Over a night of beers in Portland, OR, the concept of North Drinkware was born.
2014

The Design

We started with the USGS 3D data of Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier and Half Dome and began to explore the design for both pints and tumblers. This is also when we submitted for patents on our first set of original designs.
2014

Prototyping

After we designed the glass we made 3D prints to see the concept come to life. We then used the 3D printing process again to create the plaster molds that we would test the concept with. Our process was a combination of modern technology and the age-old craft of glassblowing.
2014

Garage Time

Working nights and weekends, we built plaster molds in the garage and imagined what the future of North Drinkware could be over beers. At this point, we weren’t sure if our product idea was even possible.
2014

Failing Fast

Working with the team at Elements Glass we began to blow our first glasses late into the night. We failed fast, learned a lot, and continued to refine our approach to keep moving forward. Our plaster molds only lasted for one or two glasses, but we were encouraged enough to keep going.
2014

Improving Faster

After burning through many molds and long nights, we began to be able to make glasses that resembled our idea. We were inventing our process and proving that our concept could be produced.
2014

Our First Cheers!

After lots of failure, we finally got a glass we could pour a beer into. We had proven that our concept could be made. Now it was time to build our brand and business.
2014

Set a Date

We decided to launch our concept on Kickstarter in early 2015. We chose this route because we wanted to see how a broader community responded to our brand and idea. We also needed help to fund the production molds & inventory to get up and going.
2014

Video Hacks

It took a lot of trial and error to get our video and content to be a reflection of our vision. Part of this project for us was challenging ourselves to do as much of the work ourselves as possible. The early results of this were terrible, but we kept moving through the process to improve.
2015

Better, Closer

We tirelessly refined our story and our creative process. Thanks to a little help from family and friends our video, and launch assets were now looking good and ready to share with the world.
2015

Kickoff!

On Super Bowl Sunday 2015 we launched our Kickstarter campaign for The Oregon Pint. We asked for $15,000 to cover the investment in production molds and inventory and crossed our fingers. We spread the word to everyone we knew, lined up some launch PR and hoped for the best.
2015

30 Crazy Days

With the campaign live, we were amazed to see the interest in The Oregon Pint grow so quickly. We raised over $530,000 from 5,620 amazing backers in 30 days. From the New York Times to reddit, The Oregon Pint was everywhere and North Drinkware was born.
2015

Getting to Work

By the fall, we were able to produce and deliver nearly 13,000 Oregon Pints to our loyal Kickstarter backers. There were too many challenges to list, but in the end, we accomplished our goal, with way more excitement around our brand than we ever expected and had thousands of satisfied customers. In this time, we had to figure out our entire production process. That included our molding process, cold working technique, setting up a fulfillment warehouse, managing packaging, and building an e-commerce website just to name a few. We'll revisit many of these in future Journal articles.
2016

On to the Next

We launched The Washington Pint featuring Mt. Rainier in the fall of 2015, tumblers in early 2016, and continued to celebrate some of the most beloved peaks in the United States in the following years.
2017

Patented

By the spring of 2017 our patents were issued for our original set of designs. At this point, many sub-quality brands began to replicate our concept and designs. Uncool, we know. Protecting intellectual property is extremely expensive and time-consuming, and as a small brand it just pushed us to work harder and be better. When you support original ideas, you're a part of progression. We thank all of our customers who continue to support a true original every day.
2018 Onward

Looking Forward

Now offering glasses, coasters and more celebrating over 30 peaks around the world North Drinkware is the original and leading mountain drinkware brand. We have ambitious goals for the future. Stay tuned to see how we continue to grow North and live up to our goals: making premium products in the United States that let you bring the mountains home in more ways.

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Weʻre launching new products all the time. Stay tuned to see whatʻs next!

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