This was to distinguish ownership of bottles as blue labeled ones were returned to Mississippi and vice versa. A distinctive difference between the Biloxi-based root beer and the Louisiana's was that the Louisiana bottle was printed in red (versus Biloxi's blue). The two men remained close their entire lives, working on flavors and production challenges. In 1934 Barq and Robinson signed a contractual agreement on Barq's product rights allowing Robinson to make his own concentrate, uncommon in beverage bottling licenses. Robinson was mentored by Barq and later moved to New Orleans.
īarq met a young boy on the Mississippi coast, Jesse Robinson, and employed him. By some accounts he debuted what was later to be known as "Barq's root beer" the following year, but others maintain it was not produced until 1900. The following year he opened the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works.
Early on, their most popular creation was an orange-flavored soda called Orangine.Įdward Barq moved to Biloxi, Mississippi in 1897 with his new wife. The brothers bottled carbonated water and various soft drinks of their own creation. The Barq's Brothers Bottling Company was founded in 1890 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, by Edward Charles Edmond Barq and his older brother, Gaston. Historical Marker at Edward Barq's Pop Factory, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
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