IBC Root Beer

Infobox Defunct company
company_name = Independent Breweries Company
company_
slogan =
company_type = private
fate = closed, IBC name sold
Predecessor =
successor = Northwestern Bottling Company
foundation = 1919
defunct =
location = St. Louis, Missouri
industry = Beverage
products = IBC Root Beer
key_people = Griesedieck family
num_employees =
parent =
subsid = Infobox Beverage
name = IBC Root Beer
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type = Soft Drink
abv =
proof =
manufacturer = Independent Breweries Company (1919-
Northwestern Bottling Company
National Bottling Company (1930s-1976)
Taylor Beverages (1976-1980)
Seven-Up Company (1980-)
Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc.
Cadbury Schweppes -2008)
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (2008-)
distributor =
origin = 1919 in St. Louis, Missouri
introduced =
discontinued =
colour =
flavour =
variants = IBC Diet Root Beer
related = any other Root beer

The Company

The Independent Breweries Company was a syndicate founded in St. Louis, Missouri by the combination of Griesediecks'cite web |url=http://www.gb-beer.com/gbbeerhistory.html |title=Griesedieck Bros. History |accessdate=2008-06-20 |work=Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company |date= Edited, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, by Steve DeBellis] National Brewerycite journal | quotes = | author = Donald Roussin |coauthors= Kevin Kious | date = | year = 1999 | month = May-June | title = Wagner Brewing Company: Bringing Beer and Baseball to Granite City, Ill | journal = American Breweriana Journal | volume = | issue = May-June 1999 | pages = | publisher = American Breweriana Association | location = | issn = | pmc = | doi = | bibcode = | oclc = | id = | url = http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/wagner_granitecity.shtml | language = | format = html | accessdate = 2008-06-20 ] , Columbia (Alpen Brau), the Gast brewery in Baden, A.B.C.cite web |url=http://www.gb-beer.com/gbbeerhistory.html |title=Griesedieck Bros. History |accessdate=2008-06-20 |work=Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company |date= Edited, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, by Steve DeBellis] , and Wagner Brewing Companycite journal | quotes = | author = Donald Roussin |coauthors= Kevin Kious | date = | year = 1999 | month = May-June | title = Wagner Brewing Company: Bringing Beer and Baseball to Granite City, Ill | journal = American Breweriana Journal | volume = | issue = May-June 1999 | pages = | publisher = American Breweriana Association | location = | issn = | pmc = | doi = | bibcode = | oclc = | id = | url = http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/wagner_granitecity.shtml | language = | format = html | accessdate = 2008-06-20 ] . 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.cite web |url=http://www.gb-beer.com/gbbeerhistory.html |title=Griesedieck Bros. History |accessdate=2008-06-20 |work=Griesedieck Brothers Brewery Company |date= Edited, from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, by Steve DeBellis]

The 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 who 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 Seven Up merged, distribution of IBC became national throughout the United States. Ultimately Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. was acquired by Cadbury Schweppes.

IBC was subsequently organized within the Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages unit of Cadbury Schweppes, before being spun off into Dr Pepper Snapple Group in 2008.

Flavors

Currently sold

* IBC Root Beer
* IBC Diet Root Beer
* IBC Cream Soda
* IBC Black Cherry

Additional Flavors

* IBC Tangerine Cream Soda
* IBC Cherry Cola
* IBC Cherry Limeade
* IBC Berries and Cream
* IBC Birch Beer
* IBC Strawberries and Cream
* IBC Black Cherry Wishniak

External links

* [http://www.ibcrootbeer.com Official website]

References