Bottled Fortunes

A single bottle of soda, beer, or spirits can build a billion-dollar empire — or become the exact reason a company quietly disappears entirely.
Bottled Fortunes documents the complete history of the world's most iconic beverage companies — the founders who bet everything on a formula, the marketing wars that decided winners, and the corporate takeovers that changed what's in every bottle on the shelf today.
Topics we cover: beverage company history and origin stories, soda, beer, and spirits brand rise and fall, corporate acquisitions in the drinks industry, founders and formulas behind iconic beverage brands, marketing wars, and bottling company history.
Deep research, original sources, and full-length documentaries on the drinks that shaped the world.
New documentaries regularly. No sponsorships. No brand deals.