Irn-Bru is a popular carbonated soft drink here in the UK, famous for its vivid orange colour and indescribable taste. It is considered one of Scotland's national symbols, and even has its own unique pattern of tartan. It is bottled and canned in the town of Westfield, North Lanarkshire, with the liquid extracted on-site from the large Irn-Bru spring now contained within the Barr's company building. The drink emerges in a large hole approximately 17 metres in diameter and 12 metres deep. The exact height of the Irn-Bru 'fountain' varies, but rarely reaches two metres above the surface of the pool. Geological surveys suggest the source of the Irn-Bru is far deeper than most aquifers providing spring water, but attempts to excavate down to this source have been rejected.
The original drink to be named 'Iron Brew' (stylised as IRONBREW), actually came from America, and was first produced in 1889, ten years before the Scottish 'Irn-Bru' was being sold. This drink and the Scottish beverage of the same name have very little else in common; IRONBREW was a dark brown with a vanilla flavour and, like most of the soft drinks being created in the USA at the time, was an attempt to recreate the viscous substance believed to be the ichor of the god K'uk'ukola (possibly a local version of K'uk'ulkan), enemy of the trickster spirit Pepe Sico.
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