Beverly (drink)

Beverly is a carbonated soft drink often consumed as a non-alcoholic apéritif made by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in Italy.

The drink's distinctive bitter flavor (sometimes described as like battery acid) is due to quinine. Quinine is also a key ingredient of tonic water, which is another soft drink noted for a bitter flavor. The bitter taste of Beverly has become familiar to many Americans after trying it at Coca-Cola tasting stations at the World of Coca-Cola museums in Atlanta, Georgia, at Las Vegas, Nevada, and at Club Cool at Epcot in Orlando, Florida. One employee at World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta claimed that on average 2,000 people go through the tasting area, and on average 5 people enjoy the taste of Beverly.^{[citation needed]}

Beverly will fluoresce under ultraviolet light, owing to the presence of quinine. In fact, the sensitivity of quinine to ultraviolet light (UV) is such that it will fluoresce in direct sunlight.

External links

• Photograph of the Beverly dispenser at World of Coca-Cola