IBC Root Beer

IBC Root Beer
Type	Soft Drink
Manufacturer	Independent Breweries Company (1919–?); Northwestern Bottling Company ; National Bottling Company (1930s–1976); Taylor Beverages (1976–1980); Seven-Up Company (1980–1986); Dr Pepper/Seven Up (1986–1995); Cadbury Schweppes (1995–2008); Dr Pepper Snapple Group (2008–2018); Keurig Dr Pepper (2018–present)
Country of origin	1919 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Variants	IBC Diet Root Beer
Website	www.ibcrootbeer.com

Independent Breweries Company
Company type	Private
Industry	Beverage
Founded	1919; 105 years ago
Defunct	Unknown
Fate	closed, IBC name sold
Successor	Northwestern Bottling Company
Headquarters	St. Louis, Missouri
Key people	Griesedieck family
Products	IBC Root Beer

IBC Root Beer is an American brand of root beer now owned by Keurig Dr Pepper. It was originally owned by IBC until it went out of business.

Independent Breweries Company

The Independent Breweries Company is a defunct syndicate founded in St. Louis, Missouri, by the combination of Griesediecks'^[1] National Brewery,^[2] Columbia (Alpen Brau), the Gast brewery in Baden, A.B.C.,^[1] and Wagner Brewing Company.^[2] This combination was ill fated due to high overhead with too many executives and low profits forcing IBC into receivership. The IBC Root Beer was the main survivor of the syndicate.^[1]

Root beer

IBC Root Beer was founded in 1919 by the Griesedieck family as the Independent Breweries Company in St. Louis, Missouri. Root beer found a market as a legal beverage during the era of Prohibition. The Independent Breweries Company closed, but the trademark was purchased by the Kranzberg family, which operated the Northwestern Bottling Company. In the late 1930s, it was sold to the National Bottling Company, owned by the Shucart family. Popularity and distribution declined after World War II.

In 1976, the IBC trademark was sold to Taylor Beverages, which was then sold to the Seven-Up Company in 1980. After Dr Pepper and 7 Up merged in 1986, distribution of IBC spread across the United States. Dr Pepper/Seven Up was acquired by Cadbury Schweppes in 1995.

In July 2016, IBC reformulated its beverages, using cane sugar in place of high-fructose corn syrup. The bottles are now distributed in four-bottle packs (instead of the original six), and no longer have the IBC logo formed into the bottle itself, but rather printed on a plain brown bottle. This change has also resulted in increase in average price per bottle.

Flavors

Current

In 2020:^[3]

IBC Root Beer
IBC Diet Root Beer
IBC Cream Soda
IBC Black Cherry
IBC Cherry Limeade
IBC coconut lime

Former

IBC Tangerine Cream Soda
IBC Cherry Cola
IBC Strawberries and Cream
IBC Berries and Cream
IBC Birch Beer
IBC Peach Cream Soda

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Griesedieck Bros. History". Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company. Archived from the original on 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2008-06-20. Edited, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, by Steve DeBellis
^ ^a ^b Donald Roussin; Kevin Kious (May–June 1999). "Wagner Brewing Company: Bringing Beer and Baseball to Granite City, Ill". American Breweriana Journal (May–June 1999). American Breweriana Association. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
^ "IBC".

External links

[GB-1] "Griesedieck Bros. History". Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company. Archived from the original on 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2008-06-20. Edited, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, by Steve DeBellis

[ABJ-2] Donald Roussin; Kevin Kious (May–June 1999). "Wagner Brewing Company: Bringing Beer and Baseball to Granite City, Ill". American Breweriana Journal (May–June 1999). American Breweriana Association. Retrieved 2008-06-20.

[3] "IBC".

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