Pommac is a Swedish carbonated soft drink made of fruits and berries and matured in oak barrels for 3 months. The first pommac was made in 1919. The name comes from "Pomm" as in pomme, apple in French, and "ac" as it is matured on oak barrels like cognac. The recipe is kept a secret. In 1919, Anders Lindahl, a failed businessman from Hudiksvall moved to Stockholm, Sweden, and founded Fructus Fabriker and began to make Pommac. The recipe was made by a Finland-Swedish inventor. The drink was made for the upper classes as an alcohol free substitute for wine. Dr. Pepper distributed a formulation of it in the US as a diet drink from 1963 to 1969 in six-and-a-half- and ten-ounce bottles. It took a while for people to become accustomed to the taste, so sales were slow. When sales remained stagnant after six years, and its sweetener, sodium cyclamate, was banned, Dr. Pepper discontinued the product. Some of its loyal (particularly younger) fans thought of it as "near beer." Pommac is also served as ersatz champagne for teetotallers and car drivers on public celebrations. In late 2004, Carlsberg in Denmark announced that they were going to cease production of Pommac due to economical reasons. However, after overwhelming public demand (including a petition tallying over 50,000 signatures) was raised in response, the company decided to keep marketing Pommac. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomac I haven't been able to find a distributor in the US for you...you'll have to import it it seems.

Found a source! http://www.northerner.com/html/mat-la-spendrups-pommac.html With shipping it'll cost ya $11 bucks a bottle!

Yes, indeedy, I remember that foul stuff! I hated it, but at boyscout camp once, there was only one soda machine and we all picked the other flavors until the end of the week when only the Pomac was left. We would be so thirsty but hated the soda, so we would only buy one and pass it around, yuck, (couldn't do that today either). Ah, yes, good times, lol.

Yes I do!!! When I was a little girlmy grandpa owned a small fast food resturant and a new Dr. Pepper bottling plant opended. When we went to the grand opening they gave away 3 Santa Claus's, one was red with a Dr. Pepper cap for a belt buckle, one was green with a 7-Up cap belt buckle and the other one was gold with a Pomac cap belt buckle. My grandpa won the gold one and about 15 years ago my grandma gave it to me. It is the center of my Christmas decorations. Tina Stowers Hoxie, Arkansas

Wow! I was beginning to believe that this strange tasting, amber colored drink was just a figment of my imagination!! I have asked several people if they remember this drink, and they just look at me as if I have lost my mind. I have many vivid memories of this drink. In my small town (Batesville, Arkansas), I remember the neighborhood grocery store sold it, (most people didn't like it, but as kids we drank it because we thought it was so "cool" to be drinking the "near beer". I remember that my mother actually would not buy it because she didn't want to contribute to our delinquency by exposing us to this "beer substitute", (precisely the reason my cousins and I would sneak around and ride our bikes to the store to buy it). Thanks for all of the fond memories!!

John Vaught here from Kentucky. I have been looking for old or even just one pomac pop bottle. I have ask several people over the years do they remember pomac pop few ever said yes and the ones that did say yes I really wondered if they had ever heard of it. Yes I John Vaught being of sound mind do remember this fizzy drink that didn't last long in our area my brother and I loved it.

I remember it well! I was in 7th grade in Whitewright,Texas and we thought we were so cool drinking it. It did actually taste a little like beer but sweeter. I loved it but it wasn't around for long. Would love to find some just to see if it really is as good as I remember.

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I definately remember Pomac. Everyone said it tasted like champaign but at the age I was at the time, I didn't know what champaign tasted like. I liked the Pomac, though. There was another drink that came out about the same time or a little later that tasted similar called "Apple Beer." I also remember the Texas State Fair of 1964 where they were selling a drink that tasted like Pomac or Apple Beer and they called it "Goldwater." (Barry Goldwater was running for President that year)

I have contacted the Denmark Company that makes them and they had told me that they would not sell to this Country and I remember In the 1960's Mothers were complaing that this Soda Pop looked to much like Beer. But as a youngters I really liked it and To beat it all I don't care for American Beer at all. Like everything In this Country It is too Watered down. But If anyone Finds out where they may get this Soda Please pass it on.Thank you steviekeller@comcast.net

This is my first time requesting help where do I look for canadian helpers. Thank you

Hate to rub it in on you guys but I have a relative living part-time on Norway that brings me Pommac or sends it to me by anyone who visits them from the states. I'm expecting a couple of 1 litre bottles to be hand carried to me within the next week. I can't wait!

i was just wondering if by chance she/he would send me some also. just let me know the cost.

It was an apple soda that resembled champaign or beer to us kids in the 1960s. I remember it from the vending machines at Callisburg School in Texas. Good stuff. No longer made.

Please tell me how and where to order as the abve e-mail link does not work for me. you may e-mail back at steviekeller@comcast.net Thank you

Thank You and for everyone that has helped.

In the 60's I lived in Alabama and actually had a job with Dr. Pepper Company promoting Pomac. I wore an American Beauty Red formal gown and carried a champagne glass. I would pour the bubbly into a clear plastic glass to serve it. Was great fun and We sold a lot of it at the time.

I remember it from the last 60s. I worked at a Drive-In theater that served it. I was a fountain drink. Like everyone has said it was a big seller to the teenage crowd at a Drive-In

Yes I very much do remember the 1963 Dr. Pepper US version of this soda as it was sold in Texas. It did resemble the golden color of a Miller Hi-life beer in its clear bottle. I was about 18 at the time. It had a weird tast that I found unusually fascinating. Yes it is gone...but not forgotten.

We have the Gold Pommac Santa. Think these will ever be worth something?? It is the center of our Christmas decor as well.

As I write this, it is for sale on amazon, not sure if it is 19.95 a bottle or a sixpack or four pack

Yes, I remember Pomac. As a matter of fact, just a couple of weeks ago a cousin of mine told me he found an old Pomac bottle in an antiques shop in Knoxville, Tennessee. As kids we used to buy it and pretend we were drinking wine. I'd love to find some now.

Sorry to rub it in folks but tonight I will finish the last of the 5 bottles my niece brought over for me last month. She spends most of the year in Norway and gets Pommac from Sweden and brings it to me when she comes to visit.

Remembered it when I was 16 in Dallas in 1964! Thought the clerk let me buy liquor! Would like to have a cold one right now for the memories of that time in my life!

Never heard of it.