Vernors Ginger Ale is widely recognized as the world’s oldest soda by most people since it is both made with carbonated water, and it has a distinct flavor. That said 1767 was the year when carbonated drinking water was first created. But the first flavored carbonated drink was this ginger ale that was developed in 1866.
Vernor’s Ginger Ale is generally accepted as the oldest American soda pop brand still in existence. It got its start just after the Civil War when Detroit’s James Vernor—a pharmacist, of course—discovered that a ginger-ale syrup he’d left to age in an oak cask ended up with a distinct flavor thanks to the wood.
1878 – FioaraVanti is a strawberry flavoured soft drink from Ecuador in South America that was first commercially available in 1878. The drink is now owned by The Coca Cola Company. 1885 – Dr Pepper. Well known throughout the world, Dr Pepper is probably the oldest “famous” drink and was first made available in 1885.
Club soda is merely carbonated water and is often used as a mixing element in alcoholic beverages. If club soda counts as a soft, then Schweppe’s carbonated mineral waters would surely count as the oldest soda. But some others might consider club soda to be on a real soft drink since no one really guzzles it by itself.
The heart of the disagreement between which of the two fizzy drinks is really the first “soda” lies in the definition of what constitutes a soda pop the way we think of them today. Technically speaking, the first time that anyone could enjoy a beverage even remotely similar to modern-day soda would have been 1767. Dr.
That said 1767 was the year when carbonated drinking water was first created. But the first flavored carbonated drink was this ginger ale that was developed in 1866. But there’s certainly an argument to be made that Schweppe’s carbonated waters, first created in 1767, are the true heirs to the title of “Oldest Soda Ever.”
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