Pequot Soda
The Pequot Water Company was a soda and spring water bottling company where I grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Pequot soda came in a long list of flavors. Some of the ones I remember are orange, root beer, and lemon-lime. Trucks came directly to our door to deliver the specific flavors my mother had ordered. The glass bottles with a cork-lined cap were transported in heavy wooden crates, with 12 bottles per crate. When the soda bottles were empty, the truck returned to take the crate of empties back to the bottling plant to be reused.
The Pequot Water Company was a business started in 1916 by the Roser family of Glastonbury. The water used to make the soda was from an onsite spring that was purported to have magical powers by the local Indians. Pequot soda was delivered on trucks from the early 1960’s into the 1970’s. The company is gone now, and the building stands empty, having been recently sold. But the name of “Pequot soda” brings a smile to my face as I remember how great it tasted and how much by brothers and I enjoyed it as kids.
Pequot Water Company
320 Spring Street Extension
Glastonbury, CT
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They had the worlds BEST Birch Beer.
R. Hagedorn
South Windsor, CT
i bought a wooden water crate..i am trying to fing the age of it…dovrtail corners and says pequot spring beverages cavalla@mail.com
I to miss the great taste of the pequot soda especially the root beer. My mother and stepfather used to order it from 1971 to I thnk 1976 I wish we could bring it back. I would be willig to pay for a bottle cap or bottle if their are any left. Remeber spring water makes the difference. Oy vey to the roser family. I lived in westhartford at that time. Sincerely yours. Brian mino
May god bless and keep the roser family for cultivating such a wonderful beverage that familys could share together.
Another former West Hartfordite here! My parents were regular customers; a case of ginger ale and a case of mixed (I recall root beer and orange, among them). I think some of our old photos even show a bottle or two on the table at Friday night dinners. Maybe it’s just a retro sensation–that everything back then was better–but the soda in glass bottles, well, how could anything today in plastic and cans even compare in taste …
Thanks for the memory; pass the Kleenex, pls.
Pammy please pass me a kleenex as well. I’m in 41 and I would of went to conard high but we moved. Washington circle behind the great ac petersens icecream parlor. Where did you live then. And yes the kids today don’t know what real soda is but I bet they would love it if they could taste it. Time moves to fast pammyfay. You have a good one. Brian mino.