List of bottlers

This is a list of bottlers operating in the Birmingham District:

• H. O. Adams, bottled Queen Ola, Adamsville (1907-1914)
• Alabama Grocery Company, bottled Imported French Cola, Lime Cola
• Ala Cola Bottling Company, Bessemer (1912-1914)
• Alabama Bottling Works, Bessemer (1902-1905)
• C. P. Barranco, Bessemer (1910-1920)
• Bessemer Bottling Works, Bessemer, Johns (1900-1905)
• Bessemer Bottling Company, bottled Lime Cola Bessemer, Ensley (1930-1968)
• Bessemer Coca-Cola Bottling Works, Bessemer (1907-1910)
• Bessemer Steam Bottling Works, Bessemer (1887-1900)
• Big 5 Bottling Works, Ensley (1924-1930)
• Birmingham Brewing Company
• Birmingham Chero-Cola Bottling Company, Birmingham, Bessemer, Patton (1920)
• Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Birmingham
• Birmingham Distilling Company, 1300 7th Avenue North, Birmingham (–1908)
• Birmingham Dr Pepper Bottling Company, Birmingham (1931-1983)
• Bowden Bottling Company, Bessemer (1910)
• Brown Belle Bottling Company, bottled The Joe Louis Punch, Birmingham (1938-1950)
• Buffalo Rock Company
• Celery Cola Bottling Company, bottled Celery Cola, Birmingham, Dallas, Nashville & St Louis (1908)
• Chero-Cola Bottling Company, Ensley (1924)
• Crawford Johnson & Company, Ensley (1928-1929)
• Cream Cola, Jebeles & Calias Co., Birmingham
• Crenshaw & Company, Bessemer (1908-1910)
• Crown Bottling Works, Ensley (1901)
• Dixie Bottling Works, Pratt City (1925-1926)
• Dixie Steam Bottling Works, Birmingham (1900-1902)
• Eagle Bottling Company, Bessemer, Johns, Pratt City (1905-1918)
• Eagle Cider & Phosphate Company, Bessemer (1908)
• Eidge Brothers, Bessemer (1897-1898)
• Ensley Bottling Works, Ensley (1910-1911)
• Fairfield Bottling Works, Fairfield (1918)
• Frisco Bottling Works, Johns (1910)
• Grapico Bottling Company, Ensley (1920-1922)
• Green Spot Bottling Company, Ensley (1949)
• H. P. D. & P. Company, Pratt City (1907)
• Houppert & Smyly
• Kentucky Distilling Company, 2230 2nd Avenue North, Birmingham (1915)
• Jack Daniel Distilling Company, 1215 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham (1911-1915)
• Jefferson County Bottling Works, Ensley (1910-1920)
• Johns Bottling Works, bottled Rye-Ola, Johns (1911-1921)
• Mar-Cola Company, Bessemer (1918-1920)
• H. G. Meuman, Bessemer (1887-1897)
• Minor Brothers, Ensley (1901)
• Minks Bottling Works, Pratt City (1909)
• Mitch-O-Cola Bottling Company, Warrior (1915)
• Motlow Distilling Company, Birmingham 1215 2nd Avenue South, Birmingham (1904-1907)
• My-Cola Bottling Company, Fairfield (1918-1922)
• National Dope Company, Birmingham (1909-1911)
• Nova Kola
• O. L. Gregory Vinegar Company, bottled Revive Ola, Birmingham
• Orange Smile Bottling Company, Bessemer (1920-1922)
• Orange Tip Bottling Company, Bessemer (1922-1924)
• Pioneer Bottling Works, bottled Coca-Cola, Blossburg, Brookside (1900-1923)
• Peek Beverage Company bottled Rye-Ola, Birmingham (1905-1922)
• Pratt City Bottling Works, Pratt City (1900-1912)
• Pratt City Distilling Company, 118 4th Street Pratt City, Pratt City (1915)
• Pratt-Ensley Bottling Works, Pratt City (1907)
• Purity Bottling Company, Warrior (1912-1915)
• Red Rock Bottling Company, Ensley (1924)
• Rochelle & Brown, Ensley (1909)
• Rochelle & Duren, Ensley (1908)
• Romano Ala-Cola Bottling Company, bottled Ala-Cola, Bessemer (1912-1914)
• Rye-Ola Bottling Works, Johns (1911-1921)
• Schillinger Brewing Company
• Steel City Bottling Works, Ensley (1934)
• Warrior Bottling Company, Warrior (1915)
• Wise Ola Company, bottled Wise Ola, Birmingham

References

• Smith, Dennis I. (1983?) Birmingham Bottlers 1883-1983. Birmingham: self-published pamphlet.
• The Report of the President's Homes Commission, (1907) 60 Cong. 2 ses., Sen. Doc. 644. quoted in Harvey W. Wiley (1919) Beverages and Their Adulteration. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. - accessed January 18, 2007