PEScience

PEScience has spent 15 years building a name in sports nutrition on the strength of two things: flavor and quality control, and the brand's move into beverages with Versa energy is a direct extension of that reputation rather than a bolt-on side project.

The Boca Raton-founded supplement company built its base on protein powders, pre-workouts, and everyday fitness staples, earning a reputation among gym-goers as the brand that actually nails taste in a category full of chalky compromises. That flavor-first obsession is baked into the company's own language: PEScience says it only builds a product if it clears the bar of being "an order of magnitude above the rest" on taste, and its Versa energy line only came to exist after years of customers and retailers asking the brand to bring that same flavor development into a can.

Versa keeps things simple on the formula side: 125mg caffeine per can, low enough that a two-can day doesn't turn into a caffeine problem, but still enough to get the job done. No candy-brand licensing deal, no gimmick flavor collab riding on somebody else's name. The brand is betting that its existing supplement fanbase, plus word of mouth from people who actually taste the difference, does the work that a marketing budget would otherwise need to do.

That flavor-first approach isn't just marketing talk either. PEScience backs its formulations with a quality program built around raw material and finished product testing (heavy metals, microbial contaminants, pesticide screening) and manufacturing in NSF-certified facilities, the kind of behind-the-label rigor most beverage startups skip entirely.

This is a brand for the supplement-literate energy drink drinker: someone who already trusts PEScience's protein tub in their kitchen and wants that same trust extended to what they're drinking before a workout. In a category crowded with mystery-flavor gimmicks, PEScience is positioning Versa as the energy drink built by people whose whole business is making things taste right.