Why Detroit is a beverage town
Faygo, Vernors, Towne Club, and a bottling industry that outlasted most of what surrounded it. The reasons are structural, not sentimental.
Why nostalgia sells hardest in the fourth quarter
Every December our oldest flavors outrun our newest ones. It is not sentimentality — it is a predictable, plannable shift in what people are buying a soda for.
Michigan's ten-cent deposit, and what it means for your beverage
The highest container deposit in the country shapes how beverages are packaged, priced, and handled here. If you are launching in Michigan, it is not a footnote.
What is actually in root beer
It is the most American soft drink and almost nobody can name a single ingredient in it. Here is the real flavor architecture, and why sassafras is not in yours.
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