# does your city have locally-made soda? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2019, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651 "2019-12-31T03:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/41 "2020-01-01T14:23:31Z")
Our medium-small city (La Crosse, Wisconsin) is known for several breweries, but a tiny village only about 30 miles away — Spring Grove, Minnesota —has an eponymous company that makes delicious flavored sodas, including unusual flavors like “rhu-berry.” ETA: Ninja’d by post #23! Who woulda thunk it? Howdy, neighbor! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/42 "2020-01-01T14:30:36Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Portland, Maine has [Captain Eli’s](https://captnelisoda.com/). Oh, I love their blueberry soda! When I moved in Lawrence, Kansas, the amazing Mass Street Soda store carried this, and about a million other little local products from across the US (and beyond, eg. Peru’s wonderful Inka Cola). I think they might no longer be in business, alas. I also recall a delicious melon soda from somewhere in Connecticut. (ETA — it’s “Avery’s”.) ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/43 "2020-01-01T18:46:03Z")
In NYC, we’ve got this stuff: [Manhattan Special](https://www.manhattanspecial.com/#home). Despite its name, it’s nearly unknown in Manhattan, but fairly popular in Italian-American neighborhoods in Brooklyn. I love it. I’m a hopeless addict. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/44 "2020-01-01T18:54:36Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Oh, I love their blueberry soda! When I moved in Lawrence, Kansas, the amazing Mass Street Soda store carried this, and about a million other little local products from across the US (and beyond, eg. Peru’s wonderful Inka Cola). I think they might no longer be in business, alas. > > I also recall a delicious melon soda from somewhere in Connecticut. (ETA — it’s “Avery’s”.) From Connecticut, there’s also [Foxon Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxon_Park) sodas. They have a variety of flavors. And [here](http://averysoda.com/) is the website for Avery’s Beverages. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/45 "2020-01-01T18:57:03Z")
Old Dominion Root Beer was local until 2009; [they’re in Delaware now and dropped the “Old”](https://www.fordhamanddominion.com/soda). ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/46 "2020-01-01T20:09:21Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Berlin still makes [Fassbrause](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fassbrause). Rixdorf, to be precise. Amazing that there is a Wikipedia page in English about that. Many mid-sized breweries in southern Germany make orange soda (which they call “lemonade” for reasons). I haven’t checked but I’m sure there’s a locally brewed soda close enough to me. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651/47 "2020-01-01T20:23:10Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > In DC there’s Rock Creek, officially the “Rock Creek Ginger Ale Co. Inc.” They’ve been in business for 100 years and they don’t even have a website. > [@DCnDC](#): > > Upon a little further research, at some point, probably in the 80s, they were bought by and are still owned by Canada Dry. > > But as far as I can tell, it’s not sold anywhere but here. I did some looking and Rock Creek is actually owned by a local Canada Dry subsidiary, called Canada Dry Potomac. Based in Landover. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-city-have-locally-made-soda/845651.md?page=2)