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C. Beverages
Published 2004
1. Royal Aloha Coffee Mill and Museum, Captain Cook, HI
808-328-2511
http://www.theinsidertravelguides.com/aloha/BigIsland/coffee.htm
The growing and processing of coffee is shown in an old mill, with its equipment, historic photos, and a 1906 coffee roaster, still operational.
2. World of Coca-Cola Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
404-676-5151
A recreated picture of Coca-Cola’s history from its 1886 beginnings, through a film and exhibitsfeaturing advertising, promotional, and packaging materials, especially from the 1950s onward.
3. Dr Pepper Free Museum and Free Enterprise Institute, Waco, TX
817-757-1025
Collection of objects in renovated original bottling plant of Dr Pepper; focused on the story of the entire soft drink industry; includes a functioning 1930s soda fountain.
4. Ralston Cider Mill Museum, Mendham, NJ
http://www.ralstoncidermill.org
An original very early gristmill was converted to a cider mill in 1908, producing cider and applejack. Today it is a museum, restored and fully operational.
5. National Brewery Museum, Potosi, WI
608-763-4002X106
A restored nineteenth- to twenty-first-century brewery building contains memorabilia and historical objects from breweries all over the United States. Under the auspices of the American Breweries Foundation.
6. Greyton H. Taylor Wine Museum, Hammondsport, NY
607-868-4814
Wide assortment of wine-related objects, tracing development of wine making in New York State’s Finger Lakes region from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Coopering tools, a collection of wine bottles, and other items.
7. Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History, Bardstown, KY
502-348-2999
History of the American whiskey industry over more than two centuries. Distilling equipment, advertising posters, pre-Prohibition whiskey bottles and other containers, historical documents, and distillery records. Getz was an American whiskey historian, writer, and lecturer.