Baikal (Russian: Байкал) is a Soviet non-alcoholic beverage of dark-brown colour, developed as an alternative to Coca-Cola. The beverage's basis is water, but it also contains extracts of natural herbs, sugar, citric acid, and carbon dioxide. The natural herbs and extracts utilized typically include black tea extract, Siberian ginseng, cardamom oil, eucalyptus oil, lemon oil, liquorice, St. John's wort[1] and laurel.[2]
History
Baikal's production started in 1969. It was developed as a Soviet alternative to Coca-Cola.
The drink was developed with the