If you didn’t grow up with Cheerwine, you might expect a sharp, tart cherry taste, but Cheerwine is smooth and rich. It’s not as harsh as the black cherry soda we had at birthday parties as ...

Cheerwine is America’s first bottled cherry soda. Photography by Tim Robison. Created in 1917 in Salisbury, North Carolina, Cheerwine owes its abundant popularity, in part, to a time of scarcity.

Cheerwine, a cherry-flavored soda brewed in Salisbury for slightly more than a century, has become widely known as the ...

Last month, Charlotte-based NoDa Brewing Co. released Cheerwine Ale, described as “a crisp, refreshing wheat ale infused with the South’s favorite cherry soda.” ...