Faygo Brau (a nonalcoholic ginger beer made in the 1960s that looked and poured like real beer).Chateaux Faygeaux (a wine-flavored soda made in the 1970s).(Sold around Christmas in association with St. Fine Rhubarb Pie (Winning Flavor of the 2007 "Design a Flavor" contest sponsored in Adrian, Lenawee County, Michigan).Pineapple Orange* (This flavor had a difficult premiere in 1961 or 1962, when unsterilized pineapple juice sourced by Dole fermented in the product and caused bottles to explode on the shelves).Candy Apple (discontinued reintroduced later).It is also made reference to in the web comic Homestuck, as the character Gamzee, who is based on juggalo culture, has an affinity for it. Positive audience reaction to an early concert performance in which Violent J threw an open bottle at a row of hecklers resulted in the group continuing to spray their audiences with the drink. įaygo brands received some high praise from the culinary industry when it was announced that the September 2009 issue of Bon Appétit magazine ranked Faygo Root Beer as the best tasting American root beer, describing it as "dry and crisp, with a frothy head, a good bite and a long finish." In popular cultureįaygo is often talked about by the hip hop group Insane Clown Posse, who reference Faygo in several of their songs. In 2007, Faygo celebrated its 100th anniversary. sold the company to National Beverage Corp. Commercials produced in the 1970s featured "everyday people" on the Boblo Boat singing the "Faygo Boat Song". In the 1960s, the soda's regional popularity expanded when the company began advertising during broadcasts of Detroit Tigers games. Faygo bottling plant and corporate offices, Detroit.īecause the drink had a limited shelf life, Faygo was only sold within Michigan, until the late 1950s, when the company hired chemists who found that ingredients in the water limited the life of the finished soda, and designed a filtering system that purified the water, allowing the pop's shelf life to be expanded.
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