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As a Czech I am genuienly surprised by how well you pronounced Kofola
Right? He's even not sure and proceeds to pronaunce it correctly on his own. Gotta love this guy.
thats probably because it is the only Czech word with no space for error :D
he makes a lot of content reacting to European videos, a really lot of reactions about Czechia as well so he prolly learned something about right pronuciations already
co? co je na tom tazke? a je pocut americky prizvuk
@@lastar6118👋🇸🇰👋
Both drinks are Czechoslovak. Kofola was created on the Czech side and Vinea is more of a Slovak product, but both are a joint work.
Vinea is still owned by Kofola or what the company is named so it czech.
@@ChestaYt it was invented in Slovakia and today the brand is owned by Kofola, a.s. Rajecká Lesná, so still Slovakia:D
true
@@ChestaYt just cuz they bought IT doesnt mean its Czech it was Made in Slovakia so its Slovak just like Kofola IS Czech cuz IT was Made in czechia
@@mavnost3263 Okay I am Slovakian and I seriously don't give a single fu-
I'm from Slovakia, Kofola is insane! I love it! It's more popular than Coca-Cola here.
Btw, in Slovakia it's in every grocery shop and fuel station. There are some shops, where you can't buy Coca-Cola, but only Kofola. Btw, in restaurants and pubs (bars) there's only Kofola available (exept beer) and it's filled from barells. It's absolutely another level.
He should try all the variants of TATRATEA in the next video! Best Slovak export! :)
tatratea might require a license for importing explosives :-)
@@DaweSlayer TATRATEA might kill him
jako vazne? Vy jste fakt divni :)
Kofola - "If you love her, there's nothing to worry about"
😂😂😂😂
Není co řešit😂😂
"And if you won't eat until the evening, you're going to see a golden piglet."
@@MrHaganenoEdward I see it already :D
Kofola is much more popular in Czech Republic than Coca Cola. You can get tap kofola in restaurants in Czech Republic.
That’s cool! 😎
In Czechia it is a 50/50, because as my friend puts it, they drink a lot more beer, so usually you find different beer on tap and refrigerated bottled cola or pepsi. If you go to Slovakia, you will find Kofola on tap in 90% of restaurants.
@@IWrocker cool is it foams like a beer, so kids drink it from 0,5L beer glasses and pretend it is black beer.
red bull cola is the major one
in your dream maybe :D
Vinea is from Slovakia. Vinea is a carbonated grape-based soft drink invented in Czechoslovakia in 1973 by Slovak Ján Farkaš, a biochemist working for the Research Institute for Viticulture and Wine-making in Bratislava. But yea, it was sold to Kofola.
But back then, both, Kofola and Vinea were much better - but i remember, also Coca Cola and Sprite were much better back then. Draft Kofola, from the keg, is still much better than the one in a bottle. And the relationship to the drinks is a matter of habit - in Slovakia, most people prefer Kofola to Coke.
Kofola
I’m liking it more and more as I have had a couple more glasses. It’s very unique 🎉
Yes, in Kofola you can taste the herbs. ;)
@@IWrocker I expected you to give it at least 8/10. It also took me 30years to really like it so im not surprised that it needs time. The herby taste is very unique, some just don't like the herb flavor. But "Když jí miluješ, není co řešit!"
@@IWrockerI'm not surprised honestly. When I went to Prague, I had checked out Czech stuff I wanted to try beforehand. So the first thing I did was going to a shop and getting a Kofola. Opened it, took a sip, and was disappointed. I didn't really like it. Then I ordered one in a restaurant and, while still tasting the same, it had grown on me. After two weeks in the Czech republic, my car was packed with Kofola, Birell pomelo and Mattoni grape. I've just run out of the stuff and need to get back in a few weeks.
@@IWrocker goes excellent with rum, cheers
Kofola ingredients 3:39 : water, KOFO syrup (fruit syrup, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, water, caramel, colorant E150d, acid: citric acid, sodium chloride - salt, KOFO essence - aroma, herbs extract - natural aroma, licorice extract - natural aroma, caffeine, preservative E211), carbon dioxide
According to Kofola website, the syrup composes of 14 fruit and herbs.
yeah you can taste little bit of lecorice in it
Also part of original KOFO syrup contained syrup from caramelised apples, i dont know if they use it now.
Vinea is from Slovakia😀Vinea was mixed in 1973 by a team of researchers for the winery plant in Pezinok Slovakia. Vinea was created on the basis of a state contract, and the aim was to produce a "healthier alternative to foreign cola and citrus drinks." The production was introduced in 1974. Greetings from Slovakia
Thank You for the information 🎉I really liked the Vinea
vinea je momentálně česká protože jí vlastní KOFOLA a ta sídlí v česku :)
@@IWrocker Thank you, there is also red Vinea and some special series
Jenom závidíš že mluví o česku a né o Slovensku
Kofola 9/10. Coca-Cola 5/10 Pepsi 8/10 royal crown cola 10/10
*I'm from Slovakia, Kofola is here with us since our childhood. In our bars and pubs it's usually draft to the glass just like beer. It's classic for us to go for a beer or for Kofola if we don't wanna alcoholic beverage. In my opinion Coca-Cola taste just like sugary water, basically Pepsi and Coca-Cola is the same thing, but Kofola has it's own, original, one of a kind taste. I think the most of the flavour makes spice called cardamon. Vinea is great too, but kofola is Kofola :) Nowdays the trademark of Kofola belongs to Czech, but it was always our common beverage since we were Czechoslovakia back then. I don't want to tell it's traditional, but it is certainly the most favourite nonalcoholic beverage in our two countries :)*
I have known multiple foreigners who were working here in Czech Republic for a longer time to have this impression of Kofola: first it is not bad but they prefer Coke. But since many pubs and restaurants here only have Kofola and not Coke so they get to drink it repeatadly. Three months later they start saying they like Kofola more and they will miss it when the go back home. I have seen this with people from Taiwan, China, Finland, Estonia and Germany personally and I have heard similar stories from other Czechs.
Also in the nineties Kofola almost died when we finally got access to the forbidden fruit of Coca Cola here and people went crazy for that. But then someone managed to resurect Kofola and it got a huge share of the Czech market. It also kinda sounds like when people got access to both many started to prefer Kofola over time.
So both those things make me think it has to be a bit of an acquired taste.
Tap Kofola in a restaurant is somehow better than the bottled one. Not sure why but most of us agree that it is.
that's why kofola on tap is better in a restaurant than in a bottle, because it maintains proper cooling. Kofola must not be very cold or "warm", because then it has a completely different taste.
They have coca-cola, but those little bottles are very overpriced, so it's better to have tap Kofola if they have it.
Tapped drinks are almost always better than from bottle due to being fresher, properly refridgerated, and coming into contact with air less.
@examplenameyoutube More like vice versa in these days, Czech product mostly means bad quality. It's not because of not skilled people, it's because of terrible management and bosses in those companies. Most of factories after 1989 are ruled by waiters and taxi drivers who have no clue about what they do, so if something actually works, thank to people who work there and pushed some working solution by force even when it was probably against what their owner wanted.
Kofola on tap is another level!
The opposite is true in North America with Coke, which is just a syrup mixed with carbonated water.
Both Kofola and Vinea were developed way back when Czechoslovakia was a thing. Calling them both Czech is a little imprecise, because Vinea was developed in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia and until today remains produced in Slovakia. The brand is owned by Kofola a.s. though. Vinea contains 10% of grape juice, while other brands have much less, typically around 3%. Grape based non alcoholic drinks were common in Central Europe for a long time, dating back to 19th century. Kofola remains very popular in Czechia and Slovakia and is readily available on tap in many pubs. Some sources claim the former Czechoslovakia is the only free market, where Coca Cola is not the dominant Cola drink, because the local competition is just that good.
Yes that’s exactly what I was talking about too you totally read my mind ❤
The contents: Kofo syrup, the main ingredient of Kofola, about 14 herbal and fruit ingredients(mostly secret), sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup, caramel and about 15 mg/100ml caffeine, rest is just preservatives etc.
For me Kofola is more refreshing than Coke, because Kofola contains significantly less sugar and CO2. Super sweet drinks make thirsty feeling stronger.
one of the strongest herbal taste in Kofola is licorice (and it's the only one you can see in ingredients list).
i think there is apple juices with lemon in the ingredients
@@The4AncientLP There´s not
@@user-oh9pj2wo4g i mean in the syrup some lemon and apple
in the past, the image of the future was flying cars, now we get to watch 8 minutes of a wholesome guy and his wife drink soda, and i am completely okay with that
theres a flying car in slovakia
@@burgerbs9919 brains of engineers were powered by Kofola, it is no coincidence that Slovaks made flying plane
@@miroslavbuchar2559 its a slovak car
Kofola from a tap in a nice bear garden with few friends is my favourite memories from my youth.
bear garden sounds like extremely stressful place to drink
you mean beergarden?
@@Pyrochemik007 it's so good you can wrestle bears after drinking it
@@Pyrochemik007 definitelly less stressful than classic Czech pubs full of yelling drunkards and waiter who is forcing you another beer when you barelly finished previous one 😀
We may be an eastern Europe but not this level of Eastern 😂
Kofola contains 14 different herb and fruit substances and is spiced with liquorice...the composition is secret but we Czechs know that it contains: extracts from apples, cherries and currants, licorice and raspberry, caramel, anissed, cardamom, orange and cinnamon essential oils.
And I think the aftertaste is from licorice.
What is the source of cardamom ingredient? I was reverse engineering the recipe, and got to exact same ingredients + small bit of lemon and levander (unsure about this) essential oils. Never saw cardamom mentioned anywhere. Also forgot the most (not)secret ingredient: salt :)
As a Czech myself, I think that I don't know anyone who dislikes Kofola personaly, we just love it that much. :D
pravda, Sice som Slovák ale nepoznám nikoho kdo nemá rád Kofolu
@@bleskvykrompac2973 Certifikovaný banger
@@matt_autism Real
I loved old VINEA because it was made in slovak wine area (Pezinok, Malé Karpaty) by small wine company. They were using stum, which is early stage product during wine making. I live nearby, so we went there for school excursion (chemistry). So original VINEA was like a combination of wine and bubbly lemonade, but without alcohol. In 2008 Kofola corporation bought VINEA and changed the recipy. They are using fake generic substances. It tastes like liquid cancer. Many small wineries are producing lemonades like original VINEA. Usually its called "vínny mušt" (wine stum). But it costs about 5€ for 0,7L bottle, while generic VINEA cost about 1,50€ for 1,5L bottle.
fun fact. what you call original coca cola is not original anymore since the introduction of corn syrup.
that's a sad fact
True, im not a fan of corn syrup as well
@@IWrocker Unfunny fact - in czechia, we make the coca-cola for entire "Eastern europe" market and it has corn syrup in it. Behind the borders in Germany, they sell the sugar based coca-cola, and somehow it is cheaper.
Well its still better than anything with Carcinogens Acesulfam K or Sucralosis.
Best/healthiest Sweeteners in Ranking are: 1Liquorice(Sweetwood) best used in Tea. 2 Stevia / Steviol glycocide 3. Xylite 4. Cane Sugar and Beet sugar 6. High Fructose Corn Syrup - and now the very unhealthy ones : Aspartam/Acesulpham, Sucralosis, Lead white/ Leadsugar.
We also make the sugar based one, but we ship it to germany and it gets sold there, so as always we get fu*ked over@@Pyrochemik007
Poor Ian has used all of his drinking glasses for beer and only has left some jars from the kitchen. 😆
Yeah. And yet he says he is not gonna fill the "full glass". I was like, only Americans could drink from friking jar and call it a glass. That's like small size drink in US, right?
Coca Cola is almost my last pick of soda, it just feels like my teeth are rotting in real time.
This. It also doesn't feel much like a drink, it's just liquid sugar. The more if you know the contents 😅 But my mom, a physician, recommends cold, thoroughly stirred coca cola taken by spoons as a good way to calm down angry stomach that can't hold a thing.
Same. For me it's kofola, then pepsi mango, then vinea, then fanta, then anything else
I Always feel like my teeth Are sticky And stick together ..... That's why I choose Kofola before cola .... Also who drinks Pepsi? It's disgusting
Is that just a feeling or is there something to it? Like is Kofola somehow less unhealty?
@@jaromor8808 Kofola has less sugar that's why
Here's my theory.
As a native Czech bloke ofc I grew up with Kofola and I'd always choose it instead of Coke if possible, not so long ago we had a meet up with my friends group and we are all from different countries around Europe.
One guy from Sweden, one guy from Netherlands, Friend and his wife from Finland, 2 Germans, Me - Czech, 1 bloke from Italy and 2 gals from the UK.
We had a meet up here in Czech Republic and everyone was cooking each day their "traditional" meals and in the evening they gave everyone their traditional snacks.
Each end every one of 'em said that Kofola isn't THAT BAD, but they'd rather go for coke, but the day they were leaving? ALL of them bought a 6-pack of 2L bottles home.
Now that friend from Finland and his wife both liked Kofola the second they tried it and we later on found out why that might be.
You see in Finland they have this candy called "Salmiakki" which is just liquorice candy with heaps of salt.
And Kofola contains liquorice extract (among other herbs and spices)
That man tried to convince me that for liquorice (and pretty fast) you can like "build up" the taste for it ... what is it called... "Acquired taste?"
And that might be the same case with Kofola, cus' when I tried Salmiakki I wasn't that impressed, but when he was leaving he helped me choose some good brand Salmiakki which I ordered right away and to this day I always grab a piece in the evening or after work :^)
Yeah, its somehow a thing. The further north you go, the more intense the licorice gets.
As a Czech person who tried Salmiakki (and absolutely hated it each time I tried it), I'm kinda offended on behalf of Kofola 😁
@@IHasLegs2 You need to persevere! :^)
Took me around 2 weeks trying it each day before I got around the weird taste, but now I love it :D
If you ever come to Czech Republic, you need to try Kofola on tap, thats the best way to drink it. Bottle one is great, but it is the same like with beer. Yeah, bottle one is good, but on tap? Thats the best way. But it will be hard to drink so much when there is so many delicious beers on tap. Beware, dont drink too much Kofola, you will not be able to return to Coca-Cola ever.
Kofola is the best! Fun fact for you as a Scania fan - Kofola as a company have their own fleet of trucks which are mostly powered by Scanias on natural gas CNG/ LNG, they have very nice and modern fleet. New Scanias and Ivecos.. And me as a truck driver i actually enjoy to picking up some remaining truck jobs for Kofola company, it is always a good experience as a external trucker here, i like it there.
Hi! Slovak here. Even if I grew up in times when Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Kofola were already on market, Kofola is the best in my opinion. It has less sugar (30 % according to Wikipedia) and less bubbles (is not as sparkling) which I personaly prefer, plus herbs makes specific flavour. Vinea is supposed to taste like sweeter wine, but it's sparkling non-alkoholic drink and we love it here. Btw Kofola and Vinea were created in Czechoslovakia, but if you go strictly by the place when they were made then Kofola is Czech and Vinea is Slovak. Also, for gods sake get the Kofola on tap! You cannot compare the tapped one with that sad taste from plastic bottle. 😂
Yea the tap one is damn good, mostly thx to that it didn't sit on a shelf for some time. And even cold it's damn better then Coca cola
Kofola was originally developed as a byproduct of coffee production. In the 1950s, Czechoslovakia implemented the use of waste materials, including coffee grounds, for further processing. Coffee grounds contain caffeine, and it was from these grounds that "kofoin" was derived, which became the base ingredient for the development of Kofola.
Kofoin was combined with various herbal extracts, fruit concentrates, and other ingredients, leading to the creation of Kofola's distinctive flavor. The goal was to create a beverage that would serve as a cheaper alternative to Western cola drinks while still having its own original taste.
Love that you finally got your hands on some of our most popular drinks in Czechia and Slovakia. Kofola and Vinea are a part of our culture at this point. I'm also glad you liked it. The best it to get kofola from a tap at a pub or a food stand near some lake in the summer. Hopefully, you can come to Europe one day and try it here yourself.
2:45 What i know as a Czech is that the special taste that you were talking about is mostly the herbs like licorice or anise and fruit like apples or sour cherry.
Kofo syrup, the main ingredient of Kofola, consists of 14 herbal and fruit ingredients (such as extracts from apple, cherry, currant, or herbal aroma), sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup (2014), and caramel. In contrast with Pepsi or Coca-Cola, it contains 30% less sugar, ~56% more caffeine (15 mg/100ml, Coca-Cola 9.6 mg/100ml) and does not contain phosphoric acid.
Kofola should be consumed properly chilled at around 10°C. When it is warmer or very cold, it has a completely different taste. In Slovakia and the Czech Republic, it is available on tap (just like beer), and it is better on tap if proper cooling is observed. Kofola is also suitable for e.g. RUM in a certain mixing ratio and you get an interesting cocktail or even with red wine. *** Vinea must also be properly cooled. You can mix Vinea + white wine in a certain ratio with the side dish and you will get a champagne-like taste.
I fell in love with Kofola when I went to the Czech Republic years ago. For a long time you couldn't get it in the UK, but luckily we have an immigrant population from that region and shops that cater to those communities, so I can get it now.
Also, I hate CocaCola.
Hi from Czechia!
It's very nice to see an American try out our favourite soft drink. I'm glad you liked it! I personally really like to drink tapped Kofola if I don't want to drink beer in a pub. It's even possible to get tapped Vinea in some restaurants in CZ. If you're interested in the differences between Coca-Cola and Kofola, I copy-pasted this short article into google translate, so you can read about it:
Kofola was created as part of a state task to use excess caffeine during coffee roasting. The syrup from which it is made contains sugar, caramel, a mixture of cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, licorice extract and an aromatic ingredient from the orange tree. The basis of Kofola is fruit syrup made from apples and currants supplemented with syrup from sour cherries and raspberries. The fruit extract is always mixed for one whole season, therefore Kofola can have slight variations in taste every year depending on the nature of the seasonal weather and the ripening of the fruit. The syrup also contains sugar, caramel, herbal extract from raspberry, licorice, a mixture of coriander, cinnamon, cardamom and orange, caffeine, preservative and other auxiliary substances. The syrup is composed of 14 natural substances that give this drink an unmistakable taste and characteristic aroma. Unlike classic cola drinks, Kofola® has almost a third less sugar and up to half less caffeine.
Kofo syrup, the main ingredient of Kofola, consists of 14 natural ingredients (such as extracts from apples, cherries and currants, or vegetable aroma), sugar and caramel. Compared to Pepsi Cola or Coca-Cola, it contains 30% less sugar. Kofola contains 30 mg of caffeine in 300 ml (Coca-Cola 31 mg) and, unlike some other cola drinks (including the two mentioned), does not contain phosphoric acid.
We love Kofola in the Czech Republic. You can get it tapped like beer in restaurants. It is very popular among cycling community. When we go biking or for a hike, we always buy Kofola during the trips to get energy back because it is sweet and refreshing. It contains spices "lékořice" and it's full recipe is a secret as with coca cola. Coca cola is great, but Kofola has more kind of bitter and intense taste. Trust me, you will actually like it more and more if you get used to it. After a while the regular coke will become "average" in taste. Na zdraví! Cheers. ✌️
Kofola is the king 💪💪
Im from CZ, I realy like Kofola and Vinea, there is some info:
Kofola:
Ingredients: water, KOFO® syrup (fruit syrup, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, water, caramel - burnt sugar, dye E150d, acid: citric acid; sodium chloride, essence for KOFO® - aroma, herbal extract - natural aroma, licorice extract - natural aroma, caffeine, preservative E211), carbon dioxide.
Vinea:
Ingredients: water, grape juice from concentrate (10%), sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, carbon dioxide (min. 3 g/l), acids: citric acid, tartaric acid (L(+)-), blackberry flower extract elderberry, aromas, antioxidant: L-ascorbic acid.
sir while I am happy you enjoy our drinks, these are jars you put pickles in, not drinking glasses :))
Haha these are a staple in summertime for refreshing drinks here in the States 🎉 glass just makes drinks taste better I feel, keeps them cool as well
I am using kompot jars for drinking all the time. It's nice subtle punk. 😂
@@IWrocker But… drinking glasses are made out of glass, hence the name? :D
Drinking from such cups of Kofola or Vinea in the Czech Republic or Slovakia is how to cook broken spaghetti in Italy ...
Kofola and Vinea are my favorite drinks 😉 BTW, every year on the Christmas, Kofola make special series, last year it was rum-flavored Kofola, of course this one was non alcoholic. But Kofola mixed with rum is a popular drink too 😉
In Poland, we can buy kofola but only in a few markets. So, it can not by easy to buy it.
That's now, but only a few years ago Kofola was unobtainium in Poland.
Write to Biedronka HQ to order it :D Probably you are tough market. Do you have your own polish cola? Name it pls, I like to try it. Greetings from Czechia.
@@avrahamstern4550 The Polish Cola from the communist times is Polo Cockta. It was introduced in the 60's and discontinued in the late 80's. Since than rights to the brand were bought in 2007 by Zbyszko and it was reintroduced to the market in 2015. I am not sure how does it compare to the communist one, but considering that even the original Coca-Cola tastes slightly different now than I remember it from my childhood it ain't a big deal.
@@darek4488 cool, thanks for info, I'll try to order it from Allegro B-)
and Kofola is being produced at polish borders (KRnov/Glubczyce)
Vinea was made in Slovakia in comunist era (Pezinok and Nitra) now owned by Kofola company, both made in Rajecka Lesna (Kofola factory in Slovakia)
Vinea 🇸🇰
3:40 If you still want to know the properties, it is:
Ingredients: water, KOFO (R) syrup (fruit syrup, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, water, caramel - burnt sugar, color E150d, acid: citric acid; sodium chloride, essence for KOFO (R) - flavouring, herbal extract - natural flavouring, liquorice extract - natural flavouring, caffeine, preservative E211), carbon dioxide.
Nutritional information per 100 ml
Energy value 136 kj / 32 kcal
Fat
Kofola contains 14 different herbs and fruit substances, spiced with licorice.
New Idea: Orginal Budweiser Budvar from Czech Republic vs US Budweiser. The different is incredible. 😊
new idea six months old
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Well, 1. go to homepage to youtube.
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Idk, Budvar is among my least favorite beers (I'm Czech), but it has a slightly different taste than other beers and some may prefer it. Also they make more types, some are more bitter and good
I’m English and prefer Kofola to Coca Cola. I live in Poland and stock up whenever I see it.
Fun fact about Vinea: During the 80s it was actually a rare good in czechoslovakia because of how much it got exported abroad
Got to taste both these drinks, when i was on a trip to Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria this summer, while I was in Bratislava ❤ loved them!
Kofola is a carbonated cola-type soft drink that was created in 1960 in Czechoslovakia as an alternative to the then unavailable competing drinks Coca-Cola or Pepsi. The drink is produced by the Czech company Kofola ČeskoSlovensko a.s. in Krnov. Kofola contains 14 different herbs and fruit substances, spiced with licorice.
In Kofola, there is little bit of licorice
Its the healthiest sweetener - followed by Stevia, xylite, cane and beet sugar, Corn fructose Syrup. Anything else gives you Cancer.
Vinea was founded (trademark) and produced in the territory of the Slovak Republic. Just for the record.
Kofola nejlepší !!!!!
After my grandson visited the Czech Republic he fell in love with Kofola. Fortunately his mum has found a Polish grocery shop in England where Kofola was in stock.
Ian, with Google Lens you can translate every language, I tried it in May in Athens and Greek looks way different. Worked perfect.
Vino will be the Latin Word for Wine - the old Romans said: In Vino Veritas - In Wine, there is truth.
There is also a red Vinea which is made from the red grapes, it tastes different from the white one.
Greeting from Czechia ❤
I absolutely LOVE Kofola. I'm from Poland and we have a chain of restaurants serving Chech food (both authentic and inspired by). And they serve Kofola. 😃
I'm from the Czech Republic and Kofola, it's my childhood and the best cola drink in my opinion, but at the same time, most people from other countries don't like it, which is not so good, and that's why I'm glad that at least Americans like it. I know a few Ukrainians and they hate kofola, but at the same time some do, but I've also seen various videos of foreigners tasting kofola and few people liked it... but for me it's the best and I hope this google translation makes sense
The truth is that both non-alcoholic beverages originated in Czechoslovakia.Kofola was founded in the early 1960s in the Czech-Slovak pharmaceutical plant Galena, Opava-Komárov.Currently, geographically, the Czech Republic.Vinea was established at the beginning of the 70s of the 20th century in the Czech-Slovak enterprise Vinárske závody Pezinok.Currently, geographically, Slovakia.In 1987, the American Edward Cihak came to Czechoslovakia. Later that year, he founded the company Vinea Importers USA in Chicago. He started importing this grape drink with the catchy slogan Elegance without alcohol to the USA and Canada.
Lovely stuff indeed. Also, you should try the different TatraTea alcohol variants, it really hits different.
That will kill him! lol😂
@@paulandjana EXACTLY
Kofola is important in the Czech beer culture, where getting a non-alcoholic drink in restaurants can be difficult and _very_ expensive at times. It can be transported, tapped and served like a beer.
As Czech native, I can say that you have very good pronunciation ;)
Vinea is a carbonated grape-based soft drink invented in 1973 by Slovak Ján Farkaš, a biochemist working for the Research Institute for Viticulture and Wine-making in Bratislava (Slovakia).
Vinea is Slovak, Kofola is Czech, but we, Slovaks and Czechs consider both "ours". :D
May I suggest Kvass, basically non alcoholic bread beer (like 0.05%)
Very good on hot days, got a taste for it working in Kyiv for a few years.
Or something from Ireland, specifically Donegal. There is a local producer that has a drink called Football Special.. really good stuff, particularly from a glass bottle rather than plastic.
Kvass from Ukraine, Balorus and Russia are good.
Nice that you promote Czechia! If I may give you advice, please do some research .. for example about the ingredients for Kofola. I think it would be very interesting for your US audience to learn more. The spices in kofola are quite original. Anyone in CZ groups/forums would help you with translations.
Once Czechoslovakia i am sad that we were broke apart by politicians, but when it comes to our drinks the Czechs and Slovaks always unite as one :D
it wasn't only politicians... I think it's better we aren't Czechoslovakia anymore, though our relations are great... I hope that doesn't change now that Fico is the premier in Slovakia
To be fair, it came together to have a better chance at resisting influence from Germany, Poland, Austria and Hungary.
There obviously was influence, no doubt. But the breakup was peacefully, no big war or conflict. Just a decision to separate again.
@@CreestofOfficial it's not the first time Fico is PM...the bond between our nations is too strong to be tarnished by some corrupt politicians
As others have said Kofola is on an absolutely legendary statue in our country and it is the most popular coke drink. It did start in the 1960 not really as a competetor but as a substitute since things from around the world, especially America weren't really available here back theb. But since then it's become an absolute classic.
The taste is pretty specific and satisfying because it's an exact blend of herbs and fruits. Add more or less of something and it's not Kofola anymore. There's things like liquorish, apple and currant juice, cardamom, anise, orange peel and cinnamon. Pretty interesting flavours but as you've seen it works 😎
But as it always is with coke, the exact recipe is known by only a few people
My Slovak wife of 20 years will beg to differ on Kofola and Vinea being Czech! As you can imagine they got bought quite a lot here( England) by the mrs. Vinea is my go to soft drink when we visit restaurants in Bratislava. You can also get a ‘red’ version as well.
Vinea sure, it was invented by Slovak guy, but Kofola is strictly Czech. KOFO (main ingredience in Kofola) was created in Prague and Kofola was made till 2002 in Krnov Czech Republic. It was then that they created another factory in Slovakia for the increase in demand. In Slovakia there where two different brands that were trying to make "Kofola" but they failed.
@@Rudron1 Kofola was made in manny czechoslovak cities in comunist era , thay bought licence and kofo sirup from company GALENA Komárov, based in city Opava (city part Komárov). GALENA was medicine and drugs production factory who owned trademark "kofola" and trademark "kofo" and recipe of sirupe "kofo". In early 90´ in city Krnov was established factory producing soft drinks named NIKOLA.
When our goverment make a decizion on privatization of GALENA factory, thay decided to sell factory and other assets like trademarks etc separately. So trademark KOFOLA and kofo sirup recipe was for sale. NIKOLA owners saw their chance and bought it and imediatelly rebranded whole company to KOFOLA a.s.
Komunists wanted to use waste cofeine from cofee producer in Prague to make soft drink with cofeine and I think thair effort was succestul.
Kofola was created becouse comunism didn't allowed anything from US so we needed to create our cola
It's the soft drinks equivalent to convergent evolution - two completely unrelated products in completely different parts of the world, only both end up fulfilling a near identical look and role as each other.
There was Coke at Tuzex, but our money were (and still are) worth shit, so it was out of reach for casual drinking.
If communism didn't allow anything, there wouldn't be Pepsi being made here.
Co to trepes😂😂😂😂😂 vola bola na československu ďaleko skôr ako kofola, len kofola bola dostupnejšia cenov ty liliput
@@KanecicqSTUDIOS thats because you compare it with the richest countries. Go to spend money to asia or in general poorer countries and your gonna see that our money is worth a lot.
Go to Czech republic, and try Kofola in restaurant, it's much more tasty, beacuse it's stored in barrels
Perfekt video. Yes kofola taste little different like pepsi or coca - cola but it has a delicious specific taste because it also contains some herbs. Kofola + ice is incredible summer drink btw perfect reading of the title like real slovak.
Kofola is from czechoslovakia(now we are devided) and Vinea is from slovakia and is from small town witch is called Pezinok🇸🇰👍
Kofola also has quite few flavors, tho honestly currently they are not that good. They reduced sugars in them and sadly you can taste the sweetener to much in them.... But they are: Citrus, sugar free, sour cherry, vanilla, guarana, apricot, watermelon, Blackcurrant, raspberry, blackberry, pineapple, grapefruit, gooseberry.
And seasonal flavors like christmas etc were cinnamon, cherry, pomegranate, almonds, gingerbread, chocolate, coconut, walnuts, plum and cinnamon, pear and cinnamoc, tangerine, clove and cinnamon, apple and cinnamon, honey, caramel, line cookies and vanilla rolls (traditional czech christmas cookies) and rum
Imo I loved the cherry and apricot flavor, but without sweeteners...
As a Slovak I cam confirm Vinea is great!
In Czech republic kofola is everywhere, I love Kofola
Fun fact when researchers and food scientists from czechoslovakia tried to make kofola they were given coke (it was banned in czechoslovakia because of communism) to base their recipe on it they run the tests on it to find out what are the ingredients and they couldn’t believe that it contains 10% sugar they thought they had make a mistake. communists didn’t allow them to put 10% sugar in and thus kofola contains only around 6%
Vine, a Slovak product, is actually made from wine grapes. No powders or concentrates.
Kofola, has a lot of different herb in the Kofola syrup, what might be throwing you of is the licorice.
Dnesna vinea sa robi z hroznoveho koncetratu v rajeckej lesnej, original sa robil vo vinarskych zavodoch Pezinok priamo z hroznoveho mustu... A zlozenie vody ma tiez zasadny vplyv na chuť...
Teraz tam must nie je iba umele aromy pod kofolou.
@@bilcorp1 Kto niekedy pil vineu v 80-90 rokoch, keď sa predávala v 0,3l sklenených fľašiach, ten hneď pozná, ako veľmi sa jej chuť zmenila. Dnešná Vinea sa nedá s tou starou vôbec porovnávať.
@@Phobos_Nyx som 40tnik tak viem porovnat. Odkedy presťahovali výrobu tak to slo dole vodou.
@@bilcorp1 Presne tak
Czechia and Slovakia are two of very very few contries in the world where the most sold cola drink isn’t Coke or Pepsi. Even though “Kofola” is a brand is No.1, there are many local drinks brewed in the same style/taste all over both Czechia and Slovakia. The most common way to drink Kofola is not from the bottle but from tap, so say you are at a football match of your local team, you order “Kofola”, everybody calls it “Kofola”, but it is many times the local variety of that drink not even connected to the “original” in terms of the brand you are actually drinking. Just like when you say “Cleenex” in the USA = the brand name became the synonym for the whole product group. I dont think it is even possible to count all the varieties of “Kofola” available in Czechia and Slovakia…
As a Slovak, I have to recommend you take a listen to the traditional Slovak sheep shepards flute “Fujara”. Nothing like that sound in the world. Also looks very specific, a true “one of” in the world.
to get the real Kofola taste, you need to drink it ice cold from tap.
Kofola is the Coca-Cola here in Czechia, as you've said it's our version into the coke soda world and as far as I remember reading about, the original Kofo-Syrup was a blend of various herbs and fruits, ranging from extracts from apples, cherry's and currant. There is a whole web page on the official Kofola Website which is in English as well, dedicated to it's history, check it out.
And as the slogan says, If you love her, Nothing else matters.
As a kid I loved vinea, whenever we went to the then CSSR 🤤
As a Czech its interesting to see someone from another country try Kofola or Vinea cuz' they probbably never saw or tasted it. Kofola is way more famous than Coke here, you can get it in a pub, restaurant almost everywhere. Some people said it reminded them of root beer or whiskey, i dont think it is like whiskey but as a plot twist i never tasted root beer and i would like to.
Me also. I love beer overall.
In my personal opinion i still prefer Kofola over Coca-Cola.
Coca-Cola is too sweet and lot of people told me that they also preffer Kofola. I dont like Fanta but i have no problem with Vinea and also i love Tiger from polland more than Red-Bull or Monster.
As a Czech I also prefer Coca Cola when I'm home, but when I go to a restaurant and I have the choice of tap Kofola or bottled Coca Cola, I always go for tap Kofola, it's so good. I don't know why, but I usually feel like Kofola from plastic bottles tastes a little like plastic and the taste is also a little different between tap and bottled Kofola. I hope someday you can visit Czechia, avoid all the tourist traps that plague our country (as Honest Guide shows on youtube), and try the tap Kofola.
Kofola sirup is actually made with herbs so thats why it tastes so much different. And it also changes taste a bit depending on if you buy it in winter or summer
Hello from Romania, 5 years ago I used to work in Prague. The original Kofola is not exactly my cup of tea, but the Kofola visnova... I miss it
The biggest difference between kofola and coca cola is that its made of apples and cherrys. Many doubt this or dont know about it.
Kofola is drink that was invented during Czechoslovakia, now manufactured in Slovakia, owned by Greek businessman,.... and Vinea is also from Slovakia, in Pezinok.
In the past, when there was little caffeine in the Czechoslovak Republic, they even used what they scraped from the chimney of coffee roasters to make kofola.
You should try draft Kofola. It's the same difference as between bottled beer and draft beer. Kofola is much less sweet than Coca-Cola, so you can drink more of it, and here, it’s enjoyed on all occasions. From cooling off on a warm day, at festivals, during evening gatherings, to barbecues. I think more people here also enjoy it chilled and on tap rather than from a bottle.
The spicy taste that captured you in Kofola is 16 different herbs. The most dominant flavour is liquerish. But there is bit of ginger too.
The syrup was a coffee roasting byproduct (the colour), but the brief from comrads was clear - healthier coke. So 1/3 less sugar than coke and all the used herbs are local and often used in medicine.
I prefer Kofola over any cola.
The recipe is a secret, but there are some herbs and mainly caramel instead of sugar :)
Kofola is our beloved drink in Czech republic and Slovakia. As opposed from Coca-cola, it does have a nutritional value, since it is done with herbs and molasses, which contain lots of antioxidants and many vitamins, especially B vitamins. Coca Cola is basically a corrosive solution of chemicals phosphoric acid, caramel dye and glucose-fructose syrup. Both are caffeinated (originally Kofola was called Kofo-cola :-) Vinea is refreshing drink made of grape juice, citric acid and sucrose.
The biggest flavor factor of Kofola comes from the caramel and the way they make it. Its a well guided secret and only 3ppl at a time know it. But as soon as you taste the caramel you instantly recognize, that it makes 85% of the flavor.
VINEA is NOT from Czech Republic, but from SLOVAKIA! Producer is Vitis Pezinok. (Pezinok is small town near capital city Bratislava in SLOVAKIA!)
Kofola is very fruity and herbal, I also taste a little bit of licorice or anis in it. You should also try Cockta from Slovenia.
Im from czech republic and I appreciate from trying our soft drinks 😊
It would be cool if they sell these drinks in usa
Greetings from the Czech Republic. We say that one either loves or hates Kofola. I belong to those who love her. After all, Kofola herself has an advertising slogan "When you love her, there is nothing to solve."
As for the Vinea drink. It's also my favorite, but I personally prefer its red variant.
The is supposedly licorish extract. My friends from Australia told me that the licorish taste is deafening, but for me, I hardly associate it with licorish.
The unusual taste is liquorice. The recipe is from 1959 and the original goal was to use leftovers from coffee production. So they decided to create a coke-like drink. But the taste is distinctively different. Vinea comes from modern day Slovakia. There’s always been a tiny bit of rivalry between Kofola (Czechia) and Vinea (Slovakia).
Ingredients: water, KOFO® syrup (fruit syrup, sugar, glucose-fructose syrup, water, caramel - burnt sugar, dye E150d, acid: citric acid; sodium chloride, essence for KOFO® - aroma, herbal extract - natural aroma, licorice extract - natural aroma, caffeine, preservative E211), carbon dioxide
I am from the Czech Republic and the flavor you are looking for in Kofola is licorice. That is what makes it so much different from Coca-Cola.
Kofola is so popular here in Czechia and Slovakia that you get imitation brands which are not as good but cheaper and there is only single true brown one, the kofola. Those imitation brands can also be available on tap and often you can come to a pub where they tap some of the imitation brands, you order for kofola and they automatically tap you the other one. Like it's no longer a just a brand of a cola-like drink but its own type of drink, like a beer. Kofola takes this imitation as a flattery but reminds us in the ads that there is just one true original. And yeah. The recipe has changed a little a few times. But not actually that much.