You may remember seeing two iconic Vernors bottle plants in Detroit between 1930 and 1985. What happened to those things?

This summer’s highly anticipated new Vernors flavor has finally hit the shelves throughout Michigan and part of Ohio.

Vernors is releasing a new flavor of the famous pop for the first time in decades.

Detroit’s favorite sweet ginger ale is getting a sour twist this summer.

“Take a Michigan left to go to the party store, I need to buy some pop.”

Detroits favorite ginger ale is Vernors! The story of Vernors begins with James Vernors who worked in Detroit in a drug store. He then inlisted in the civil war and was away for 4 years as his ginger ale was aging. When he returned from war he opened his own drug store and finally opened his barrel of ginger ale extract. Wunderlich says Vernors is a soft drink that is meant to be drank by itself unlike other ginger ales that are meant to be mixers.

But I've often wondered if the theory of ginger ale being a stomach ache cure was just something my mother told me to stop whining. Ginger ale historyGinger ale dates back to 1851. The original, the golden ginger ale, was invented by Thomas Joseph Cantrell, an Irish apothecary and surgeon. Dry ginger ale far outpaced the popularity of golden ginger ale. Golden ginger ale is more regional, like Vernors in Michigan, which is the oldest American ginger ale company, dating back to 1866.

But I've often wondered if the theory of ginger ale being a stomach ache cure was just something my mother told me to stop whining. Ginger ale historyGinger ale dates back to 1851. The original, the golden ginger ale, was invented by Thomas Joseph Cantrell, an Irish apothecary and surgeon. Dry ginger ale far outpaced the popularity of golden ginger ale. Golden ginger ale is more regional, like Vernors in Michigan, which is the oldest American ginger ale company, dating back to 1866.

Ginger ale historyGinger ale dates back to 1851. The original, the golden ginger ale, was invented by Thomas Joseph Cantrell, an Irish apothecary and surgeon. Dry ginger ale far outpaced the popularity of golden ginger ale. Golden ginger ale is more regional, like Vernors in Michigan, which is the oldest American ginger ale company, dating back to 1866. But ginger ale pop doesn't have much ginger in it.