Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Question: Which soft drink brand was invented by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman in 1940?

Answer: Mountain Dew. It was developed by Hartman Beverage Co. of Knoxville, run by brothers Barney and Ally (pronounced “Olly”) Hartman. When their Orange Crush bottling plant in Georgia failed in 1932, the brothers moved to Knoxville to run a bottling plant for beer and Pepsi-Cola.