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AMASS Brands Group (Nasdaq: AMSS) Just Hit Tate Remington’s Watchlist This Morning—Monday, June 29, 2026.

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June 29, 2026

(AMSS) Just Landed Back On Our Watchlist — Here's Why We're Watching

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The Sober Revolution Has a New Market Player — And It Just Went Public

Somewhere between a craft distillery, a wellness startup, and a category-defining consumer platform, AMASS Brands Group quietly built something that most legacy beverage executives never saw coming.

While the broader drinks industry was still debating whether non-alc-oh-olic alternatives were a passing trend, (AMSS) was acquiring brands, building distribution, and stacking up market-share wins across some of the fastest-growing segments the beverage world has produced.

On May 20, 2026, AMASS Brands Group completed a direct listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol (AMSS). The reference was $16.00; shares opened at $17.00 and have since retraced significantly. The 52-week range runs from $3.00 to $17.00, per Motley Fool market data.

What landed (AMSS) on our radar again isn't just the listing. It's everything that followed. Within days, the company announced that its Good Twin brand had claimed the #1 position among organic non-alc-oh-olic wines in the U.S. — commanding 35.43% dollar share of the segment, per Nielsen. Then a functional electrolyte mixer launched. Then a national Whole Foods rollout. Then a strategic SAFE investment into an emerging beverage category. All within six weeks of going public.

With approximately 8M shares outstanding, even modest demand shifts around this name can produce amplified action. What makes (AMSS) worth studying is the combination of that structure with the operational story forming beneath the ticker.

Behind AMASS Brands Group (Nasdaq: AMSS)

AMASS Brands Group (Nasdaq: AMSS) is a Santa Maria, California-based, multi-category beverage platform founded in 2016 by CEO Mark Thomas Lynn. The company's stated mission is defining how modern consumers drink, and increasingly, how they don't.

The business operates across three core segments: non-alc-oh-olic and zero-proof beverages, functional and wellness products, and what the company calls Alc-oh-ol 2.0, a category encompassing better-for-you, premium spirits and wines. Across those lanes, (AMSS) manages a portfolio of nine core brands and more than 16 distinct products.

Key Portfolio Brands:

• Good Twin Non-Alc-oh-olic Wine — #1 organic non-alc-oh-olic wine in the U.S. by dollar share at 35.43%, with +122.2% dollar sales growth and +115.0% volume growth year-over-year

• Summer Water Rosé — The #1 selling premium domestic rosé in the U.S., zero-sugar.

• Pizzolato MUSE — #1 organic sparkling wine in the U.S. by dollar share at 27.63%. National Whole Foods rollout commenced June 1, 2026.

• Calirosa Tequila — A premium tequila brand co-founded with Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo, aged in California red wine barrels. (AMSS) acquired a majority stake in 2024.

• AMASS Electrolyte Mixers — New functional RTD line launched May 28, 2026. Zero added sugar, non-GMO, gluten-free, vegan, 20 calories or fewer per serving.

• De Soi — A non-alc-oh-olic aperitif co-founded in partnership with Katy Perry.

• AMASS LA Dry Gin — The company's original flagship botanical spirit, launched in 2018, which anchored the entire platform's build-out.

(AMSS) chose a direct listing over a traditional IPO — a structure that did not raise fresh equity at listing and did not benefit from underwriter stabilization. The company also completed a secondary financing in May 2026: Streeterville Capital purchased 7,000 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred at a stated value of $1,086.96 per share for an aggregate purchase of approximately $6.99Mn, with a 9.99% beneficial ownership conversion cap. Monitoring these conversion dynamics will be part of the analytical work as the company matures into its first public-company reporting cycle.

On June 16, 2026, (AMSS) entered into a SAFE with AfterDream, Inc., putting in $1.435Mn for future equity rights at a post-money valuation cap of $7.5Mn. AfterDream is an emerging hemp-derived T-H-C beverage brand distributed across seven U.S. states, reporting returning customer rates of 42% year-to-date and gross sales growth of approximately 43% over the prior 90-day period, per Benzinga reporting. The SAFE does not currently dilute existing common stockholders.

Market Sector: The Beverage Industry in Structural Transition

(AMSS) operates at the structural intersection of three concurrent consumer behavior shifts that are rewriting market-share dynamics across global beverages.

1. The Moderation Movement: The cultural shift toward reduced alc-oh-ol consumption has moved well beyond niche wellness audiences. The U.S. non-alc-oh-olic beverage market is projected to expand from approximately $169.6Bn in 2024 to $246.9Bn by 2032. AMASS's Good Twin and De Soi brands occupy prime positions in this lane.

2. Functional & Wellness Beverages: Functional attributes, hydration, recovery, clean ingredients, low-calorie formats, are now active purchase criteria rather than premium add-ons. The functional beverages market is forecast to reach $71Bn by 2030, with the electrolyte drinks sub-segment alone estimated at approximately $40Bn in 2025 and projected to exceed $80Bn by 2034. AMASS's new Electrolyte Mixer product line addresses this market directly.

3. Premium & Organic Spirits/Wine: The premiumization of both alc-oh-olic and non-alc-oh-olic products continues to outpace the broader category in growth. Organic wines, botanical spirits, and celebrity-anchored tequilas have demonstrated strong retail velocity, a dynamic AMASS has operationalized through Pizzolato MUSE, AMASS LA Dry Gin, and Calirosa Tequila.

With products in more than 40,000 retail and hospitality locations, (AMSS) already has a distribution network many emerging brands spend years trying to build.

New Milestones, New Momentum

Nasdaq Direct Listing Completed: AMASS Brands completed its Nasdaq direct listing under the symbol AMSS, with a $16.00 reference price and a $17.00 opening. No new common shares were issued. Maxim Group LLC served as exclusive financial advisor.

Good Twin Achieves #1 U.S. Organic Non-Alc-oh-olic Wine Ranking: AMASS announced that Good Twin captured 35.43% dollar share of the U.S. organic non-alc-oh-olic wine category.

Launch of AMASS Electrolyte Mixers: AMASS launched its Electrolyte Mixer line — ready-to-drink cans formulated with zero added sugar, Pacific sea salt, essential electrolytes, and 20 calories or fewer per serving. Available as a standalone drink or as a mixer.

First U.S. Distribution Partner for Electrolyte Mixers Secured: Great Lakes Wine & Spirits, Michigan's leading family-owned wholesale beverage distributor, in operation for nearly 80 years, became the first U.S. commercial distribution partner for AMASS Electrolyte Mixers.

Pizzolato MUSE Reaches #1 in U.S. Organic Sparkling Wine: AMASS announced that Pizzolato MUSE achieved the #1 position in U.S. organic sparkling wine by dollar share at 27.63%, per Nielsen retail sales data for the four weeks ended May 16, 2026.

Strategic SAFE Investment in AfterDream: AMASS entered into a SAFE agreement with AfterDream, Inc., investing $1.435Mn for future equity rights at a $7.5Mn post-money valuation cap. AfterDream is an emerging hemp-derived THC beverage brand distributed in seven states with reported gross sales growth of approximately 43% over the prior 90-day period. CEO Mark Thomas Lynn described the investment as positioning AMASS at the forefront of what he believes will be 'one of the most important growth stories in beverage over the next decade.

7 Reasons (AMSS) Is Topping Our Watchlist This Morning — Monday, June 29, 2026

1. Category Dominance: Good Twin's 35.43% dollar share of the U.S. organic non-alc-oh-olic wine market, makes (AMSS) the clearest category-share winner in the non-alc-oh-olic wine segment — holding more than one in every three dollars spent in the category.

2. Multi-Brand Wins: Within six weeks of going public, (AMSS) reported #1 market share positions across two distinct sub-categories, organic non-alc-oh-olic wine and organic sparkling wine, a combination few consumer platforms this size can claim simultaneously.

3. New Category Entry: The launch of AMASS Electrolyte Mixers places (AMSS) inside an electrolyte drinks market projected to nearly double from approximately $40Bn in 2025 to more than $80Bn by 2034.

4. Retail Expansion: Pizzolato MUSE's national rollout at Whole Foods Market began June 1, 2026, adding a major premium grocery channel to (AMSS)'s already-established 40,000+ points of sale.

5. Range Context: The 52-week range for (AMSS) runs from $3.00 to $17.00, with the direct listing reference price of $16.00 and an opening at $17.00, a spread market-focused readers may want to evaluate against the company's current operating momentum.

6. Celebrity Platform: Co-branded partnerships with Adam Levine, Behati Prinsloo, and Katy Perry give (AMSS) a cultural marketing infrastructure most micro-cap consumer companies cannot replicate organically, and one that carries real commercial value in premium retail channel conversations.

7. Pipeline Positioning: The AfterDream SAFE positions (AMSS) at the early stages of a developing beverage category, with potential future equity participation, no current dilution to existing common holders, and CEO commentary suggesting a path to a larger ownership stake as the category evolves.

Get (AMSS) On Your Radar While It’s Still Early…

Here's what this situation looks like from the outside looking in: a decade of brand-building, acquisition, and distribution-building across some of the hottest consumer beverage categories of the past ten years, now sitting inside a Nasdaq-listed, micro-cap structure with a 52-week range that runs from $3.00 to $17.00.

The news flow since listing has been relentless: two category #1 rankings, a new functional product launch, a first major distribution partnership, a national retail expansion at Whole Foods, and a strategic positioning move into an entirely new beverage segment, all within the first six weeks of public life.

The platform AMASS has assembled, with Nielsen-measured category leadership in three distinct segments, 40,000+ points of sale, more than $80Mn in cumulative revenue, and a pipeline of new category entries now moving into commercial distribution, is not a common profile at this stage of a company's public-market life.

(AMSS) is a name we'll be tracking closely. The fundamentals are forming, the milestones are stacking, and the market structure creates conditions that analytically-oriented readers will want to understand before the broader conversation catches up.

We will have all eyes on (AMSS) this morning.

Take a look at (AMSS) while it’s still early.

Also, keep a look out for our next update.

Sincerely,
Tate Remington
Chief Editor, Market Maven Insights

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