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Shasta Beverages, Inc.
Type
Founded	1889
Headquarters	Hayward, California, CA,  United States
Area served	United States
Industry	Beverages
Products	Soft drink
Parent	National Beverage Corp.
Subsidiaries	Shasta West, Inc. Shasta Beverages International, Inc. Shasta Food Services Shasta Military Sales Shasta Midwest, Inc. Shasta Northwest, Inc. Shasta Sales, Inc. Shasta Sweetener Corp. Shasta USA Shasta Vending Winnsboro Beverage Packers, Inc.[1]

Shasta is a brand of U.S. soft drink that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. It is generally cheaper in price than brands like Coca-Cola or Pepsi. It's available in U.S. grocery stores, especially 99 cent stores, where a six-pack or 3-liter bottle are available for that price.

It began as The Mt. Shasta Mineral Springs Company located in Baltimore, Maryland on December 6, 1889. It was also known as The Shasta Water Company. It produced bottled mineral water from Shasta Springs in northern California. For a while, the water was shipped in glass-lined railroad cars for local bottling. In 1931, Shasta produced its first soft drink, pale dry ginger ale. Until the 1950s, the company's products were mainly mixers for alcoholic drinks: mineral water, club soda, ginger ale. During the 1960s, Shasta was purchased by the Sara Lee food company (then known as Consolidated Foods). In 1985, it was acquired by the National Beverage Corp., which also owns the popular Faygo line.

Old partially-covered ad for Shasta Orange Soda

Shasta claims to have been the first to introduce metal soft drink cans and diet soft drinks.^[2] Its diet soft drinks use sucralose (Splenda brand) instead of aspartame.

Shasta Tiki Punch

• Apple
• Black Cherry
  • Diet Black Cherry
• Club soda

• Chocolate Soda
  • Diet Chocolate Soda
• Cranberry
• Creme soda
  • Diet Creme Soda
• Dr. Shasta (similar to Dr Pepper)
  • Diet Dr. Shasta
• Ginger ale
  • Diet Ginger Ale
• Grape
  • Diet Grape
• Grapefruit Zázz
• Guava / Passion fruit
• Horchata (cinnamon, vanilla and nutty rice flavor)
• Iced tea with Lemon
• Jamaica (hibiscus flower flavor)
• Kiwi Strawberry
  • Diet Kiwi Strawberry
• Lemonade
• Mango
• Moon Mist, similar to Mountain Dew or Mello Yello
• Orange
  • Diet Orange
• Pineapple
• Pineapple Orange
• Raspberry Creme
• Red Pop (similar to Big Red)
• Root beer
  • Diet Root Beer
• Ruby Red Grapefruit
  • Diet Grapefruit
• Sangría
• Strawberry
  • Diet Strawberry
• Strawberry Peach
  • Diet Strawberry Peach
• Tamarind
• Tiki Blue
• Tiki Mist
• Tiki Orange Mango
• Tiki Punch
• Tonic Mix
• Twist Lime Lemon
  • Diet Twist Lime Lemon
• Fruit punch (Carbonated & non-carb)
• Vanilla Cola
  • Diet Vanilla Cola

They also sold soft drinks similar to Shasta called Shasta Shortz for a limited time (2003–2006).

Here are the flavors for the Shasta Shortz drinks.

• Bubble Gum
• Camo Orange Creme
• Chillin' Cherry Punch
• Cotton Candy
• Rah-Rah Root Beer
• Red Grape Stain

• ShastaPop.com website

• ShastaPop.com Museum website