| Type | Soft drink |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | TheDad's Root Beer Company, LLC. |
| Country of origin | National NuGrape Company of Atlanta, Georgia |
| Introduced | 1938 |
| Flavor | Orange |
| Variants | Sun Crest Strawberry Soda Sun Crest Grape Soda Sun Crest Pineapple Soda Sun Crest Peach Sun Crest Cherry Sun Crest Grapefruit Sun Crest Lemon & Lime |
| Website | www |
Sun Crest is a brand of flavored carbonated soft drink manufactured byThe Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC, ofJasper, Indiana, and owned byHedinger Brands, LLC, except for six countries in Asia owned by TheMonarch Beverage Company, Inc., ofAtlanta,Georgia. Sun Crest Orange is currently available in fountain service and glass bottles in select markets in the U.S.
The Sun Crest brand of soft drinks was introduced by theNational NuGrape Company ofAtlanta,Georgia, in 1938 as a flavor line, and sister brand to NuGrape,2-Way lemon lime, andKickapoo Joy Juice.[1] Sun Crest was acquired along withNuGrape in 1968 by TheMoxie Company (renamed Moxie-Monarch-NuGrape Company and laterMonarch Beverage Company). Hedinger Brands, LLC. purchased the Sun Crest brand from Monarch in 2007 along withDad's Root Beer,Bubble Up andDr. Wells brands, and licensed the brand to The Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC.[1][2] The Dad's Root Beer Company headquarters is located in Jasper, Indiana.
From the 1970s until the early 1990s, Sun Crest-branded lime soda, sarsaparilla, grape soda, and cherry soda were sold in the UK atHappy Shopper stores, and delivered in glass bottles bymilkmen from theCo-op. Since 2016, the UK branch of Sun Crest had also begun selling exotic fruit juice, such as pineapple, passion fruit, grapefruit, and coconut water, in supermarkets likeSainsbury's.[3][4] As of 2021, the only Sun Crest-branded soda still available in the UK was sparkling grape juice.[5]
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