The name "ALAGA" stands for "Alabama/Georgia" and is shorthand for the “Alabama/Georgia Syrup company," an homage to the founder, an Alabamian, and his wife, whose home state was Georgia.

"We purchased it because we wanted to keep it a small Alabama company," Bowling explained. "The nostalgia of it is what intrigued us about it." "'A syrup without any equal' is what Mr. Patterson ...