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Est. 1886. Still fizzy.

Sugar waterthat conqueredthe planet

It started as a headache remedy sold nine glasses a day. Now it outnumbers most languages, several religions, and every single one of your good intentions at 3pm on a Tuesday. We are not sure how it happened either. We are simply here to appreciate it.

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An empty Coca-Cola Zero Sugar glass bottle with a lemon wedge inside, standing on a marble cafe table
Exhibit A. The bottle arrived full. The photograph was taken later. No further questions at this time.

The story, abridged

A hundred and forty years of not calming down

  1. 011886

    A pharmacist invents a drink, accidentally invents Christmas

    John Pemberton mixes a syrup in Atlanta and sells about nine glasses a day. Nine. Today that would be called a soft launch with disappointing conversion.

  2. 021915

    The bottle gets a silhouette better than most of ours

    The brief was a bottle you could recognise in the dark, or in pieces on the floor. A strange request that somehow produced one of the most famous shapes on the planet.

  3. 031985

    New Coke happens to everyone

    The recipe changed. The public reacted the way you would if a stranger rearranged your kitchen. It lasted 79 days, which is 79 days longer than anyone expected.

  4. 04Today

    Available almost everywhere humans are

    Sold in more places than there are countries in the United Nations, which raises logistical questions nobody on our tasting panel is qualified to answer.

Some numbers, presented without emotional support

1.9B

servings a day

Roughly one for everyone who has recently announced they are cutting back.

200+

countries and territories

Including several where the local word for it is simply the word.

7

ingredients we admit to

The rest of the formula sits in a vault in Atlanta. Genuinely. There is a vault.

Tasting notes

What actually happens in your mouth

Wine gets thousand-word reviews and a man in a waistcoat. The most consumed flavour on Earth gets a shrug and a fridge. We are correcting that, at length, for no reason at all.

Serve at 3 degrees. Glass bottle if you have one, can if you are in a hurry, plastic if life has taken a turn.

The opening
Aggressive carbonation. A sound engineered by nature to make everyone within four metres suddenly want one too.
The middle
Caramel, vanilla, something citrus-adjacent, and a spice blend that has survived more interrogation than most state secrets.
The finish
A clean, slightly stern goodbye. Then the ice melts and you are drinking sad brown water, which is the price of joy.

The tasting panel

Put your name next to the bottle

Three fields. Name, email, country. In return you get nothing except the quiet dignity of having declared your position on the most divisive beverage in human history.

  • 01We tell you which country drinks the most of it. Probably yours.
  • 02You settle the glass versus can argument for your entire region.
  • 03That is genuinely the whole offer. There is no step four.

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