Edward Charles Edmond Barq bought the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works on
Keller Avenue in Biloxi in 1897 and invented Barq's root beer in 1898.
After experimenting with soda flavors using backyard tubs, Barq created
the sharp tasting recipe that many enjoy today in the form of a Root
Beer Float. Barq began bottling and selling his soft drink he named
after himself in 1898.
Barq's was the iconic root beer of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the
greater South and eventually was marketed in cities from New Jersey to
Hawaii.
Although root beer was never as popular as the cola products, Barq’s
nevertheless spread throughout the United States and branched out with
flavors such as Grape, Moon-Glo, Imitation Strawberry, and red creme
soda.
By day Barq and his wife sold the drinks, and then spent the rest of
their time mixing the formula for them and refilling glass bottles. But
first the bottles had to be sterilized and then each process had to be
created in large pots in the couple's backyard. In 1936, Barq's
operation was moved from Keller Avenue to a larger plant at 604 Lameuse
Street, also in Biloxi. Demonstrating the product's appeal, by the
1950s, there were more than two hundred Barq plants across the United
States.
Barq’s added Bubble Up, franchised through the Bubble Up Corporation of
Peoria, Illinois, in 1955 and prepared for an even greater expansion.
In 1976, New Orleanians John Oudt and John Koerner bought Barq’s and
moved the company’s headquarters to New Orleans. The company was sold to
Coca-Cola in 1995 for $91 million.
Barq's Root Beer
Beverage is a liquid for drinking; drink; usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as an intoxicating beverage. While the history is a systematic accounts of events particularly of those affecting a nation, institution science or art, and usually connected with philosophical explanation of their causes. In this case the history of beverage means that the systematic account about the development of beverage.
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