Est. 1886 · Savannah, Georgia

Carousel

Ice-cold since the horse-drawn days.

First poured May 8, 1886, at a marble counter on Bay Street. Five cents, crushed ice, a paper straw. Nine glasses a day, all summer. It still tastes like the good part of the afternoon.

Carousel

The long pour

139 years, eight stops

Drag the rail. Every stop is true to our story — and each one is set in the type of its own decade.

1886

The first pour

A marble soda counter, five cents a glass. Nine sold a day, every day, until September.

1899

Into the bottle

Two Chattanooga lawyers buy the bottling rights for one dollar. Nobody laughs for long.

1915

The contour glass

A bottle you could name in the dark, by touch, or from the pieces on the floor.

1928

Cold at the Games

A thousand crates ride a freighter to Amsterdam and sell out before the closing lap.

1955

The drive-in years

Jukeboxes, car hops, and the six-and-a-half-ounce serve on a window tray.

1971

One song, one hilltop

Five hundred voices, one chorus. Radio stations get letters asking to play the ad.

1993

Winter learns thirst

The first polar film airs in December. Turns out the north gets thirsty too.

2026

still 3°c

The recipe fits in one vault. The taste fits 200 countries and a beach cooler.

House rule

Serve it cold. Properly cold.

Below 4 degrees the bubbles tighten. Above 6 the caramel goes flat and shy. Three degrees is where the snap lives.

  • 30 min buried in ice, bottle on its side
  • 2 h 15 in the fridge door, label out
  • 90 sec too long on a July table — start over

Red Umbrella Summer ’26

Find the umbrella, the first glass is on us

June 20 to September 6. Four hundred red umbrellas on the sand, Cádiz to Cape May, each one over a cooler packed to 3°C at dawn. Look for the white wave on the canopy.

See the cooler map