Etymology

iron brew

Today it means: An orange-coloured Scottish carbonated soft drink. Full definition →

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The story

From a trade name introduced in 1901, later changed to Irn-Bru because of legislation forbidding the word brew in names of non-brewed products.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.