180 Fun Facts About Beverage

In which city did pharmacist John Pemberton first sell his new temperance soda in 1886?

The first glasses were poured at Jacob's Pharmacy for five cents each, after Atlanta and Fulton County went dry.

In what year did Coca-Cola replace its formula with the short-lived 'New Coke'?

Taste tests actually favoured the new recipe, but nostalgia forced the old one back as Coca-Cola Classic within three months.

Which company put a red-suited Santa in its ginger ale ads in 1923, before Coca-Cola?

White Rock had already used Santa to sell mineral water in 1915, so the myth that Coca-Cola invented the red-and-white Santa is exactly that.

Under what name was Pepsi first sold in 1893 at a North Carolina drugstore?

Caleb Bradham renamed it Pepsi-Cola in 1898; the company went bankrupt in 1923 before being revived by Charles Guth.

Pepsi got its 1898 name from a supposed benefit for which bodily function?

Early adverts called it 'The Pepsin Drink' and promised relief from dyspepsia, headaches and drowsiness.

Charles Alderton created Dr Pepper at a drugstore soda fountain in which Texas city?

Regulars simply ordered 'a Waco'. The name Dr Pepper was in commercial use by 1885, a year before Coca-Cola.

A rumour circulating since the 1930s claims Dr Pepper secretly contains which ingredient?

The company's official FAQ flatly denies it; one theory blames a rival's delivery driver for starting the story.

When 7 Up launched in 1929, its formula was claimed to include which mood-stabilising substance?

Regulators forced the health claims out in 1936, and the name was shortened to plain '7 Up' the following year.

Fanta was created in 1940 in which country, after a trade embargo cut off supplies of Coca-Cola syrup?

Max Keith's team improvised with sugar beet, whey and apple pomace; the name came when a salesman answered his call to 'use your imagination' (Fantasie) with 'Fanta!'.

Before it was a soda, 'mountain dew' was 19th-century slang for which drink?

The Hartman brothers of Tennessee first sold it as a mixer, with hillbilly labels showing a barefoot mountaineer and a rifle.

Root beer's traditional flavour comes from the root bark of which tree?

Charles Hires wanted to call it 'root tea' but chose 'root beer' to appeal to Pennsylvania coal miners.

Sprite was introduced in the United States in 1961 as a direct competitor to which drink?

It began life in West Germany two years earlier as Fanta Klare Zitrone, or 'Fanta Clear Lemon'.

The word 'cola' comes from a caffeine-bearing nut of which plant?

Modern colas usually get their caffeine elsewhere, but a kola-based stimulating soda was on sale by about 1880.

Irn-Bru has been the top-selling soft drink for over a century in which country?

Its 'made from girders' slogan is a nod to the drink's rusty colour and the 0.002% ammonium ferric citrate on the label.

The first ginger ale was manufactured in the 1850s by an apothecary in which city?

Thomas Cantrell's dark 'golden style' came first; the pale 'dry' style was later created by Canadian John McLaughlin.

Where is Kaldi, the goatherd credited in legend with discovering coffee, usually said to have lived?

The story does not appear before 1671 and the goatherd is unnamed in the earliest telling, so Kaldi is probably a later invention.

The earliest credible reports of people drinking coffee, in the mid-15th century, come from Sufis in which region?

Until the end of the 17th century most of the world's coffee was still shipped out of Yemen.

Which country grew about 31% of the world's coffee beans in 2023, more than any other?

Coffee reached Brazil in 1727 but only took off after independence in 1822; Vietnam is now the clear number two.

Luigi Bezzera filed his 1901 espresso machine patent in which Italian city?

Desiderio Pavoni bought Bezzera's patents two years later, and the first machines took 45 seconds per cup.

Modern high-pressure espresso with its layer of crema was pioneered by Gaggia in which decade?

Early Gaggia machines called the result 'crema caffè', cream coffee, after the foam that older steam machines could not produce.

Starbucks takes its name from the chief mate in which novel?

Co-founder Gordon Bowker admitted the book had nothing to do with the business; a partner just thought words beginning with 'st' sounded powerful.

Starbucks opened its first store in 1971 in which city?

For its first decade it sold only beans and equipment at Pike Place Market, inspired by roaster Alfred Peet.

Black, green, oolong and white tea all come from the leaves of which single plant species?

The evergreen shrub originated in the borderlands of southwestern Asia's tea heartland and northern Myanmar.

After plain water, which is the most widely consumed beverage in the world?

China alone grows about half of the world's supply, with India a distant second.

Ireland is the second-biggest per-capita tea drinker in the world. Which country comes first?

The Irish get through roughly 2.7 to 4 kg per person a year, brewed strong and usually taken with milk.

Roughly how many chests of tea did the Sons of Liberty throw into Boston Harbor on 16 December 1773?

It took about three hours; nine days later Philadelphia patriots simply forced the tea ship Polly to sail home unloaded.

Some of the men who dumped the tea in Boston Harbor dressed up as which people?

Hiding their faces was a legal necessity, but the choice of costume was a deliberate symbol rather than a mere disguise.

Masala chai is made by simmering black tea and spices in water and which other liquid?

Sweetened with sugar, it is often poured from a height to aerate it, a trick performed by masters known as 'tevanas'.

Matcha's vivid green colour and strong umami flavour come from which step in growing the leaves?

The powder is whisked into hot water rather than steeped, so you drink the whole leaf.

Bubble tea, with its chewy tapioca pearls, was invented in the 1980s where?

The oldest version mixed hot black tea, tapioca pearls, condensed milk and syrup or honey.

Which country is the world's largest producer of milk?

It leads in both cattle and buffalo milk and is the top exporter of skimmed milk powder.

Louis Pasteur developed pasteurisation in 1863 to fix a spoilage problem with which product?

He worked it out on holiday in Arbois and found that heating young wine to just 50-60 °C killed the microbes without ruining it.

Frozen orange juice concentrate was developed after soldiers rejected a vitamin C powder found in what?

The Florida Department of Citrus and government scientists finished the job three years after the war ended.

Red Bull was derived from which Thai energy drink?

Dietrich Mateschitz tried it on a business trip, decided it cured his jet lag, and carbonated the recipe for Western tastes.

The Thai name of the drink that inspired Red Bull translates as 'red' what?

The gaur is a wild bovine; the drink was popular with Thai truck drivers and labourers before it went global.

Red Bull was launched on 1 April 1987 in which country?

More than 100 billion cans have been sold since, and each partner had put in just US$500,000 to start the company.

Which company created Monster Energy in 2002?

It renamed itself Monster Beverage Corporation, and by 2022 held 30.1% of the US energy drink market, second only to Red Bull.

Lipovitan D, the 1962 tonic often called the first modern energy drink, came from which country?

Taisho Pharmaceutical sold it in minibar-sized bottles to truck drivers and factory workers on long shifts.

Gatorade was developed in 1965 by a team of researchers at which school?

Football coach Ray Graves asked for it; the first batch was water, sodium, sugar, potassium, phosphate and lemon juice.

Joseph Priestley discovered carbonated water in 1767 at a brewery in which English city?

He never made a penny from it; the soft-drink industry began when Schweppe used his method commercially in 1783.

Johann Jacob Schweppe founded the Schweppes company in 1783 in which city?

His process for bottling carbonated mineral water built directly on Priestley's discovery.

Perrier recalled about 160 million bottles in 1990 after a US laboratory found traces of which substance?

The company blamed a worker's filtering mistake and insisted the spring at Vergèze itself was unpolluted.

Which multinational owns Evian mineral water?

The name also covers a skin-care line and a luxury resort at Évian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva.

Caffeine was first isolated in 1819 by which German chemist, who called it 'Kaffebase'?

It remains the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug.

What daily caffeine limit does the European Food Safety Authority consider safe for adults?

A single 6-ounce cup of coffee can carry anywhere from 50 to 175 mg depending on bean, roast and method.

Among which people was drinking chocolate a mark of high status, and a bad omen for a commoner?

The Maya, by contrast, let every social class drink it, cold and frothed by pouring between cup and pot.

Kombucha is fermented with a SCOBY. What does the acronym stand for?

Home brewers call the rubbery mat a 'mother' or 'mushroom', though it is neither.

Kombucha is believed to have originated in which country?

Its English name comes from a Japanese term for kelp tea, an entirely unrelated drink.

The oldest evidence of beer, 13,000-year-old residues in Raqefet Cave, was found in which modern country?

The semi-nomadic Natufians brewed a gruel-like beer for ritual feasts; clear chemical evidence of barley beer comes later from Godin Tepe in Iran.

The pale lager first brewed in Plzeň in 1842 came from which present-day country?

Plzeň's soft water suits Pilsner the way Dublin's hard water suits stout.

In 1759 Arthur Guinness signed a lease on the St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin for how many years?

The rent was £45 a year. Guinness only switched to nitrogen for its creamy head two centuries later, in 1959.

The earliest known traces of wine, from around 6000 BCE, were found near Tbilisi in which country?

The oldest known winery, at Areni-1, is in neighbouring Armenia and dates to about 4100 BCE.

What is the oldest recorded sparkling wine, made by Benedictine monks in 1531?

The monks of Saint-Hilaire near Carcassonne simply bottled the wine before its first fermentation had finished.

Dom Pérignon's superiors at Hautvillers originally ordered him to do what with the bubbles in their wine?

The pressure kept bursting bottles in the cellar; the wire muselet that holds a cork in place was not invented until 1844.

Sake is brewed from which grain, polished to remove the bran?

Despite the 'rice wine' label it is made more like beer, with starch converted to sugar before fermentation.

Tequila is distilled from which plant?

It is made mainly around the town of Tequila and in the Jalisco highlands, where red volcanic soil suits the plant.

Tonic water's key ingredient, quinine, was drunk by British colonial officers to ward off which disease?

The mixture was so bitter that officers cut it with gin, lime and sugar, and the gin and tonic was born.

Rum originated in the 17th century in which region?

It was most likely first made by enslaved people on sugar plantations, from molasses left over after refining.

Mead is defined by getting most of its fermentable sugar from what?

It may be the most ancient alcoholic drink of all, and is also called hydromel when the alcohol is low.

In the IBA's official 10:4:3 margarita recipe, what is the second ingredient after tequila?

It is served in a stepped margarita glass, often rimmed with salt or Tajín.

Which city is regarded as the birthplace of the mojito?

Hemingway is said to have scrawled 'My Mojito in La Bodeguita, My Daiquiri in El Floridita' on a bar wall there.

A dry martini garnished with cocktail onions instead of olives is called what?

James Bond's Vesper, by contrast, mixes gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, invented by Ian Fleming in Casino Royale.

The martini may have evolved from the Martinez, served in the 1860s at the Occidental Hotel in which city?

Drinkers supposedly ordered it before catching the evening ferry to the town of Martinez across the bay.

A Bloody Mary made with gin instead of vodka is known as what?

Bartender Fernand Petiot's 1921 original in Paris was reportedly just vodka and tomato juice, nicknamed a 'Bucket of Blood'.

Yerba mate is a species of which plant genus?

Its leaves are shared from a gourd through a metal straw called a bombilla; brewed cold it becomes tereré.

In Valencia, horchata is traditionally made from which ingredient?

The Mexican version swaps in rice, cinnamon and sugar and is served as an agua fresca.

Lassi, the yogurt drink, originated in which region of South Asia?

The yogurt was traditionally made from water buffalo milk and served in a clay cup called a kulhar.

Kvass, the mildly alcoholic drink of Eastern Europe, is traditionally fermented from what?

The mash ferments for about 12 hours with baker's yeast, and the result usually stays under 1% alcohol.

Ayran, the savoury yogurt drink of Central Asia and the Balkans, is made from yogurt, water and what?

Some versions add mint, and a few are even carbonated.

Eggnog may have developed from which medieval drink of hot milk curdled with wine or ale?

In the US it is now drunk almost exclusively from Thanksgiving to the end of the Christmas season.

The first written mention of Scotch whisky appears in Scotland's Exchequer Rolls of which year?

All Scotch was originally made from malted barley.

Which berry gives gin its defining flavour?

Gin began as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe.

Gin became widespread in England after which 1688 event brought William of Orange to the throne?

Import restrictions on French brandy helped the Dutch spirit take hold.

What minimum alcohol content has the European Union set for vodka?

Standard vodkas have been 40% ABV since the 1890s.

Absinthe's nickname in historical literature is 'la fée verte', meaning what?

Its colour comes from plants including grand wormwood, green anise and sweet fennel.

Along with Chardonnay and Pinot noir, which grape is used to make almost all champagne?

Small amounts of Pinot blanc, Pinot gris and Arbane are also vinified.

Port wine is produced in which valley of northern Portugal?

Fermentation is interrupted early by adding a neutral grape spirit.

Sherry is made primarily from which white grape?

Sweet sherries use Pedro Ximénez or Moscatel grapes.

Modern vermouth was first produced in the 18th century in which Italian city?

Fashionable cafés there served it as an apéritif around the clock.

Milkshakes gained widespread popularity after the introduction of which appliance?

They originated in the US around the turn of the 20th century.

Cacao was first domesticated at least 5,300 years ago in what is now which country?

The Mayo-Chinchipe culture were the earliest known users; the Maya drank cacao by 2,500 to 3,000 years ago.

An 1852 Michigan Farmer recipe for which drink called for Epsom salts, egg and milk?

It was pitched as a temperance drink preferable to those of 'Uncle Bacchus'.

The 'Dry' in Canada Dry's name refers to what?

John J. McLaughlin's ginger ale was far less sweet than rivals when he founded the brand in Toronto in 1904.

Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on whose Mercury flight in 1962?

This created the misconception that it was invented for the space programme.

Kool-Aid was invented in 1927 in which Nebraska town?

Edwin Perkins did all his experiments in his mother's kitchen.

Kool-Aid's liquid predecessor was called what?

Perkins removed the liquid to cut shipping costs, leaving only powder.

Ovaltine was developed in 1904 by chemist Albert Wander in which city?

Its original name Ovomaltine combines the Latin for egg with malt.

Which malted drink invented the fictitious condition 'night starvation' as an advertising gimmick?

Peter Sellers joked about it in the song 'Goodness Gracious Me!'.

Vimto, invented in 1908, contains the juice of grapes, blackcurrants and which other fruit?

It began as a health tonic in cordial form in Salford.

Lucozade was created by a pharmacist in which English city under the name 'Glucozade'?

Beecham's bought it in 1938 and sold it as an energy drink for the sick.

Ribena was handed to British children in WWII as a supplement of what?

The blackcurrant drink was later owned by GlaxoSmithKline, then sold to Suntory in 2013.

Orangina was created in the early 1930s as 'Naranjina' by a pharmacist from which country?

Agustín Trigo Miralles sold the formula to Léon Beton in 1935.

Inca Kola's sweet flavour comes mainly from which plant?

It was invented in 1935 by British immigrant Joseph Robinson Lindley.

Pocari Sweat, launched in 1980, is a sports drink from which country?

It is marketed as an 'ion supply drink' with a mild grapefruit flavour.

Under what name is the Japanese milk drink Calpis sold in North America?

It is made by lactic acid fermentation and sold as a concentrate.

Ramune, Japan's marble-stoppered soda, was introduced in 1884 by a pharmacist of what nationality?

Alexander Cameron Sim launched it in Kobe; the name derives from 'lemonade'.

The name Yakult was coined from 'jahurto', a word for yogurt in which language?

Minoru Shirota invented the drink in 1935.

Soju, Korea's clear spirit, was traditionally made from what?

Producers now often substitute cheaper starches such as cassava.

Chinese baijiu is usually distilled from which fermented grain?

Its name literally means 'white liquor'.

Pisco is a spirit produced in the winemaking regions of Chile and which other country?

Spanish settlers developed it in the 16th century as an alternative to imported orujo brandy.

Cachaça, Brazil's most popular spirit, is distilled from what?

Outside Brazil it is used almost exclusively in cocktails such as the caipirinha.

Ouzo has its roots in tsipouro, said to be the work of 14th-century monks on which mountain?

The first ouzo distillery opened in Tyrnavos in 1856.

Limoncello's slightly cloudy appearance comes from what?

It is the second-most popular liqueur in Italy.

Baileys Irish Cream was invented in 1971 by a team headed by which advertising executive?

He was working from a marketing brief issued by Gilbeys of Ireland.

What is the declared alcohol content of Baileys Irish Cream?

It is a mix of cream, cocoa and Irish whiskey emulsified with vegetable oil.

Kahlúa coffee liqueur is produced in which Mexican state?

Its name means 'House of the Acolhua people' in the local Nahuatl language.

How many herbs and spices go into Jägermeister's unchanged recipe?

Wilhelm and Curt Mast developed it in 1934.

Campari was originally coloured red with carmine, a dye derived from what?

Gaspare Campari invented the bitter in Novara in 1860.

Aperol's name comes from 'apero', slang for apéritif in which language?

Luigi and Silvio Barbieri created it in 1919 after seven years of experimentation.

James Pimm first produced his gin-based fruit cup in which year?

Diageo has owned the brand since 1997.

The House of Angostura produces its famous bitters in which country?

The town of Angostura, where they were first made, is now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela.

Angostura, the town that named the bitters, sits at the first narrowing of which river?

'Angostura' is Spanish for 'narrowing'.

The Negroni was created in 1919-20 in which Italian city?

Count Camillo Negroni of Fiesole is credited with the drink.

Equal parts vermouth and Campari topped with soda, but no gin, is known in Italy as what?

It is also called a Milano-Torino after the home cities of the two ingredients.

The Manhattan is one of how many cocktails named after New York City boroughs?

Its close relative the Brooklyn uses dry vermouth and maraschino liqueur.

The term 'old-fashioned cocktails' dates to which decade?

The recipe itself goes back to the early 1800s under other names.

Historians credit the daiquiri to Jennings Cox, an American working in Cuba as what?

Daiquirí is also the name of a beach and an iron mine near Santiago de Cuba.

The name 'piña colada' literally means what in Spanish?

The drink originated in Puerto Rico.

The cosmopolitan is made with vodka, cranberry juice, lime juice and which orange liqueur?

The IBA recipe specifies lemon-flavoured vodka citron.

Victor J. Bergeron claimed to have invented the Mai Tai in 1944 at his restaurant in which city?

Rival Donn Beach claimed he had created it in 1933.

The mint julep is a symbol of which sporting event?

Spearmint is traditionally the mint of choice in Kentucky.

The caipirinha originated in which Brazilian state?

Fruit and sugar are mixed together before the liquor is added.

Kefir is made by inoculating milk with kefir 'grains', which are actually what?

Kefir has been found in Bronze Age graves at Xiaohe Cemetery.

Oat milk was developed in the 1990s by Rickard Öste, a scientist from which country?

He founded the manufacturer Oatly.

The Prosecco grape was officially renamed what in Italy in 2009?

The wine is named after a village in the province of Trieste.

About 95% of all cava is produced in which area of Catalonia?

Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel·lo are its traditional grapes.

Madame Clicquot is credited with inventing which process to clarify champagne in 1816?

She also created the first known vintage champagne in 1810 and the first blended rosé in 1818.

Retsina's distinctive flavour comes from the ancient practice of sealing wine vessels with what?

Romans switched to barrels in the 3rd century AD, but the taste stayed popular.

Beaujolais nouveau is released for sale on which day each year?

Distributors race to get the first bottles to markets around the world.

The cappuccino takes its name from the colour of the habits worn by which friars?

In the US it is often dusted with cinnamon; in Europe, cocoa.

Café owners in Australia and which other country both claim to have invented the flat white?

The name was already in use in England in the 1960s for an espresso-based coffee.

Turkish coffee is prepared in a small pot called what?

Very finely ground beans are brought just to the boil without filtering.

For how long are coarse-ground beans typically soaked to make cold brew coffee?

The result is a concentrate diluted with water or milk.

In 19th-century France, a mixture of coffee and spirits was called what?

Balzac mentions it in Le Père Goriot (1834).

Earl Grey tea is flavoured with oil from the rind of which citrus fruit?

Traditionally it used Chinese keemun black tea and was served without milk.

Darjeeling tea comes from which Indian state?

It has been a registered geographical indication since 2004.

What does 'rooibos', the caffeine-free South African infusion, mean in Afrikaans?

Aspalathus linearis grows in the Fynbos biome.

Thomas Sullivan, who popularised tea bags around 1908, shipped them in bags made of what?

Roberta Lawson and Mary McLaren of Milwaukee had patented a 'Tea Leaf Holder' in 1903.

Richard Blechynden helped popularise iced tea at the 1904 World's Fair in which city?

Sun tea is made by steeping leaves for about an hour in sunlight.

Fiji Water was founded in 1996 by David Gilmour, a businessman of what nationality?

The Wonderful Company bought it in 2004 for a reported $50 million.

A&W Root Beer was founded in 1919 by Roy W. Allen and originally sold for how much?

Allen partnered with Frank Wright in 1922 to create the A&W name.

Moxie, an early mass-produced American soda, is flavoured with the bitter extract of which root?

It began around 1876 as a patent medicine called Moxie Nerve Food.

Which state designated Moxie its official soft drink in 2005?

It was originally produced in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Vernors, the oldest surviving ginger ale in the US, was first served in 1866 in which city?

Pharmacist James Vernor sold it at his drugstore soda fountain.

Fresca, introduced by Coca-Cola in 1966, was originally flavoured with which fruit?

It launched as a bottled sugar-free diet soda.

Coca-Cola's first diet drink, launched in 1963 and discontinued in 2020, was called what?

Its main sweetener saccharin was linked to bladder cancer in rats in the 1970s.

Unveiled in 1982, Diet Coke was the first new brand since 1886 to do what?

It uses a different recipe from the flagship drink, sweetened primarily with aspartame.

The Slurpee brand began in 1966 when 7-Eleven licensed slushies from whom?

Omar Knedlik invented the machines after his soda fountain broke and he froze his sodas.

Nesquik launched in the US in 1948 under what one-word name, after 'Nestlé'?

The Nesquik name became worldwide in 1999.

Capri-Sun was invented in 1969 by Rudolf Wild in which country?

Around 6 billion pouches are sold each year.

Powerade, Coca-Cola's rival to Gatorade, was first released in which year?

It became an official Olympic sports drink in 2000.

Who founded Living Essentials, the company behind 5-hour Energy shots launched in 2004?

The shot contains no sugar and is not FDA approved.

Nespresso is based in which Swiss town?

By 2011 it had annual sales above 3 billion Swiss francs.

Sir Thomas Lipton began his business in 1871 as what?

His stores only began selling tea in 1890.

Twinings has occupied the same premises on which London street since 1706?

It holds the world's oldest continually used company logo.

The Coca-Cola contour bottle was designed in 1915 by the Root Glass Company of which city?

The brief called for a bottle recognisable by touch in the dark.

Cheerwine, produced since 1917 in Salisbury, North Carolina, is what flavour?

It claims to be the oldest soft drink company still run by the same family.

Big Red, created in Waco, Texas in 1937, was originally known as what?

It became simply 'Big Red' in 1969.

Bovril, the meat-extract hot drink, was developed in the 1870s by an entrepreneur of what nationality?

Unilever briefly made it vegetarian in 2004 before restoring beef in 2006.

Mezcal is made from the heart of the agave plant, which is called what?

Over 30 agave species are used to make mezcal.

Under EU rules, which two countries can label their product 'Sangria'?

Clericó is a similar drink popular in Latin America.

The espresso martini is commonly credited to which London bartender in the 1980s?

It contains neither gin nor vermouth, so is not a true martini.

A Long Island iced tea has roughly what alcohol concentration?

It gets its name from an amber colour similar to iced tea, not from any tea.

A Moscow mule is properly served in a mug made of what?

It is a type of buck, mixing vodka with ginger beer and lime.

Which grape is most widely used to make cognac?

It is known locally as Saint-Émilion.

Bourbon sold in the US must be made from a grain mixture that is at least what percentage corn?

It must also be stored in new charred oak containers.

The Lincoln County Process filters Tennessee whiskey through charcoal made from which wood?

Benjamin Prichard's is the sole producer exempt from the requirement.

'Frappuccino' blends 'cappuccino' with 'frappé', a New England word for what?

'Frappé' derives from the French lait frappé, meaning beaten milk.

Tim Hortons was founded in 1964 in which Ontario city?

Ice hockey player Tim Horton co-founded it with Jim Charade.

What retail price was printed on AriZona's 'Big Can' iced teas from 1992 through 2025?

The company launched in 1992 to compete with Snapple and kept the 99-cent printed price for more than three decades, even as costs rose.

The chocolate drink Yoo-hoo was created in 1928 in which state?

Natale Olivieri had been bottling carbonated fruit drinks in Garfield.

In which Italian region is San Pellegrino Terme, home of the S.Pellegrino bottling plant?

The brand has belonged to Nestlé since 1997 and is exported worldwide from the province of Bergamo.

Which company has owned the V8 vegetable juice brand since 1948?

The name refers to its eight vegetables; packaging kept the hyphenated 'V-8' from the 1930s until 1987.

The name Snapple is a portmanteau of 'apple' and which other word?

It began as an apple juice made by Unadulterated Food Products in 1972 and is now owned by Keurig Dr Pepper.

SunnyD, then called Sunny Delight, was developed in 1963 by Doric Foods in which state?

The orange drink came from Mount Dora; plants in California and Ohio followed, and the brand name was shortened in 2000.

Who founded the juice company Tropicana in Bradenton in 1947?

The company was a PepsiCo subsidiary from 1998 to 2021, when a 61% stake was sold off.

The 'John Daly' is a boozy twist on which golf-named drink, adding vodka to iced tea and lemonade?

A tequila version is called the Lee Trevino or Juan Daly; MillerCoors sold a malt-based 'Spiked' version from 2018.

Guaraná Antarctica, Brazil's guaraná soft drink, was created in which year?

Pedro Baptista de Andrade created it for Companhia Antarctica Paulista; it is now made in five countries including Japan.

In which city's French Quarter was the Barq's Brothers Bottling Company founded in 1890?

Coca-Cola now owns the root beer, known as 'Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer' until 2012; some formulations contain caffeine.

Coca-Cola launched Mello Yello in 1979 to compete with which rival drink?

Singer Donovan says Coca-Cola contacted him about basing the name on his 1960s hit 'Mellow Yellow'.