Inca Kola
It's from 1935, before you were born.
- Maker
- Corporación Lindley / Coca-Cola
- Origin
- Peru
- Debuted
- 1935
- Note
- outsells Coke in Peru
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About
As of 2026, it's 91 years old.
Inca Kola is a golden-yellow Peruvian soda that tastes, to the uninitiated, like liquid bubblegum — and Peru loves it so fiercely that it's one of the only places on Earth where a local soda beats Coca-Cola on its home turf. Coke eventually gave up fighting and just bought a stake.
Created in Lima in 1935 and marketed as 'the drink of national flavor,' it's woven into Peruvian identity and a fixture at the family table.
Sweet, sunshine-yellow, and a genuine point of national pride, Inca Kola is the soda that beat Coca-Cola so soundly that Coca-Cola joined it.
Inca Kola through the years
Created in Lima
Launched to mark the 400th anniversary of the city's founding.
Coca-Cola buys in
Unable to beat it, Coca-Cola acquires a major stake in the Peruvian icon.
