"Sayany" - lemonade with an unusual taste and smell

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Sayans is a non-alcoholic highly carbonated drink of a greenish-wheat color, very famous in the Soviet Union.

In addition to the usual lemonade base, which is made from granulated sugar and sparkling water, the drug contains leuzea concentrate. This is what gave him a unique taste and result.

Sayans: the most famous Soviet drink

To be precise, lemonade-flavoured Sayany is not a simple carbonated drink at all, but a tonic. That's what it said on the label.

In 1935 a plant was founded in the Soviet Union. Its rise came in the 60s and 70s, when the scientists of the institution created several famous drinks. Among them - "Tea", "Pear", "Pinocchio", "Bell" and, of course, "Sayan". In addition to the usual lemonade base, it contains a concentrate of leuzea herb. This plant brought a special wormwood bitterness, a pine smell and an attractive taste. The drink is just enough to recover in a sultry period.

Creating lemonade"Sayany": the composition of the drink

Like all Soviet carbonated drinks without exception, "Sayans" were poured into empty bottles with a capacity of half a liter. The tin cap of the lemonade was removed only with a special opener, and it was already impossible to cover the bottle back. On the semicircular label, which was pasted on the top of the bottle, high mountain peaks covered with snow are drawn. Since the base for lemonade was natural products, in this case, in order to preserve it, a shelf life of 7 days was set. Agree, it's not much. Already after its expiration, a precipitate began to form at the bottom of the bottle. A tasty drug cost 27 kopecks, taking into account the cost of glass containers. Unnecessary empty bottles left after lemonade could be given to the recycling department and get 12 kopecks back. Sayany drink is lemonade, its taste is very different from all available.

Drink history

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Sayan market symbol became the subject of a number of lawsuits. They ended in 2015. Nowadays, the drink is published in small batches by some companies. The most developed production is the Aqualife company, which sells Sayany under the single brand Drinks from Chernogolovka.

It is worth saying that now preservatives are added to it, and the shelf life has been increased to 12 months. Consumers who have already tried the recently released Sayans rated them quite well in public surveys. But statistics in domestic shopping centers showhuge attention to foreign carbonated water. There is, of course, an explanation for this precedent. However, it will not be discussed here. "Sayany" - lemonade with the taste of our childhood.

The appearance of "Sayan"

The drink "Sayany" belongs to the category of non-alcoholic. It has a fortress of 0% vol. The drink appeared on the territory of the USSR in 1960. Lemonade has a greenish-gold color.

As you know, Sayana's lemonade-flavoured tonic was invented in the late 1950s. Professionals of the All-Union Scientific and Experimental Institution of the Brewing, Non-Alcoholic and Wine Industry participated in the creation of the recipe. In 1960, the team of creators was issued a special document confirming the rights to the greenish-yellow drink "Sayan".

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the famous Sayany brand was considered the subject of patent disputes, and now analogues of this elixir are published in small batches in the line of Russian companies according to the production of soft drinks.

We examined the history of the creation of the drink, its popularity in the Soviet Union, and also found out that the drug is still popular in our time among representatives of different age categories.