# Caleb Bradham
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Caleb Davis Bradham (May 27, 1867 – February 19, 1934) was an American pharmacist, best known as the inventor of soft drink Pepsi.
== Early life and ancestry ==
Bradham was born May 27, 1867 to George Washington and Julia McCann Bradham in Chinquapin, North Carolina. Bradham was of English and Scotch-Irish descent.
62: Add Its Voice to the Symphony
This week on the show, Eric and I discuss ‘The South - Home of Many a Great
Soft Drink Company’. We also talked about white vs. green tea and taste
test Counter Culture Coffee’s specialty grade Justina Ramos Bolivian
coffee. Also, we want to give a huge shout out to Condesa Coffee. Thanks
for...
Story of Writing August 28, 2023
The first edition of the Scientific American magazine is published, Caleb Bradham changes the name of his "Brad's Drink" to something more soothing, and it is the anniversary of Emmett Till's death in 1955 as well as the anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
The Coke and Pepsi Shopping Experience
Devin and Andy get fizzed up about soda sizes and variations. Is the 7.5 oz mini-can the greatest modern soda innovation? Just how explosive are Devin’s theories about coffee snobbery and diet cola taste suppression? Is the 20oz bottle an abomination? Is the 3-liter a symbol of American overreach...
Pepsi’s Weird Original Name | Smartest Year Ever (Feb 2, 2025)
Before Pepsi was Pepsi… it was Brad’s Drink. Yes, that’s what North Carolina pharmacist Caleb Bradham originally called his soda fountain creation in 1893. A mix of sugar, lemon oil, nutmeg, and other ingredients, it was meant to aid digestion and boost energy. But in 1898, a name change to Pepsi...
Story of Writing August 28, 2025
Scientific American Magazine publishes its first issue, Caleb Bradham changes the name of his "Brad's Drink," Emmet Till is murdered and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his speech now known as "I Have a Dream" - with a reading from this speech.
Hour 1: Caleb Bradham invents a carbonated drink for digestion that would become Pepsi-Cola
3pm: I Was Thinking: The Danger of Indifference // This Day in History: 1989 - Caleb Bradham invents a carbonated drink for digestion that would become Pepsi-Cola // This man keeps buying and returning 110-pound anvils on Amazon
"The Cola Wars" by Steve Adams
"The Cola Wars" by Steve Adams
In the late 1800’s, two pharmacists, John Pemberton and Caleb Bradham, invented competing Cola products. The Cola Wars have been raging ever since. As a boy growing up in rural America, none of that mattered to me. We so rarely had soft drinks that I could never ...
Pepsi: Caleb Bradham’s Unfinished Invention
He was not supposed to be remembered this way. Caleb Bradham was a pharmacist, trained for local steadiness rather than worldwide success, a man expected to move plainly through small-town commerce in late–19th-century North Carolina. However something in him bent toward experiment—toward mixture...
The Surprisingly Boring History of PepsiCo
In this episode of Sleepcast, we take a slow and peaceful journey through the history of PepsiCo.
From Caleb Bradham’s original Pepsi-Cola recipe in the late nineteenth century to the creation of a global food and beverage company, we gently explore how PepsiCo expanded far beyond fizzy drinks.
A...
August 28, 2026 - Brad’s Drink, Brown Trucks, and Pocket Monsters
Friday, August 28, 2026 — National Bow Tie Day
A pharmacist’s soda gets a better name, two teenagers turn $100 into a delivery empire, and a loom company begins building cars.
Today we explore Caleb Bradham’s transformation of Brad’s Drink into Pepsi-Cola, follow UPS from a Seattle basement, an...
