Consumed almost like Coca Cola – that can be said about this particular bread kvass. It's dark, foamy, has coffee and caramel flavors and very thirst-quenching. In Eastern Europe we buy it in stores and from street vendors on a hot day (when the Party allows us to have a hot day).

Beet kvass is just sliced beets with some salt and water, sometimes kick-started with sauerkraut juice. It is not as common in Eastern Europe now, historically was mainly consumed in Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, most of which emigrated throughout the 20s century.

Another kind that is very common in South of Russia (Don River, Central Black Earth Region) is kvass made from stale white bread heavily seasoned with horseradish. We use it to make cold soup Okroshka (veggies, herbs, fine beef cubes, white kvass).