List of beverages

Ice milk and lemon tea beverages
Various distilled beverages

This is a categorically-organized list of beverages. Beverages are liquids specifically prepared for human consumption. In addition to basic needs, beverages form part of the culture of human society. Despite the fact that most beverages, including juice, soft drinks, and carbonated drinks, have some form of water in them; water itself is often not classified as a beverage, and the word beverage has been recurrently defined as not referring to water.

Note: due to the high number of beverages in existence, this article is limited to being organized categorically, based upon the main subcategories within the Beverages category page, along with information about primary topics and list article links.

Alcoholic

2004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol.[1]

Alcoholic beverages – An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol, although in chemistry the definition of an alcohol includes many other compounds. Alcoholic beverages, such as wine, beer, and liquor have been part of human culture and development for 8,000 years. Many brands of alcoholic beverages are produced worldwide.

Beer

Beer being poured from a cask
Bottled beer

Beer – beer is produced by the saccharification of starch and fermentation of the resulting sugar. The starch and saccharification enzymes are often derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat.[2] Most beer is also flavoured with hops, which add bitterness and act as a natural preservative, though other flavourings such as herbs or fruit may occasionally be included. The preparation of beer is called brewing.

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Cider

Cider

Cider – cider is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from apple juice. Cider alcohol content varies from 1.2% ABV to 8.5% or more in traditional English ciders. In some regions, cider may be called "apple wine".[3]

Distilled (liquor)

A display of spirits in a supermarket

Distilled beverages – also known as liquor and spirits, a distilled beverage is an alcoholic beverage produced by distillation of a mixture produced from alcoholic fermentation, such as wine. This process purifies it and removes diluting components like water, for the purpose of increasing its proportion of alcohol content (commonly known as alcohol by volume, ABV).[4] As distilled beverages contain more alcohol they are considered "harder" - in North America, the term hard liquor is used to distinguish distilled beverages from undistilled ones, which are implicitly weaker.

Cocktails

Flaming cocktails

Cocktails – a cocktail refers to any kind of alcoholic mixed drink that contains two or more ingredients. As generally understood today, a cocktail requires at least one alcoholic component—typically a distilled spirit, although beer and wine are permissible—and one sweet component; it may also contain a souring or bittering ingredient.[5]

Wine

Wine – wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes or other fruits. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, water, or other nutrients.[6] Yeast consumes the sugars in the grapes and converts them into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts produce different styles of wine. The well-known variations result from the very complex interactions between the biochemical development of the fruit, reactions involved in fermentation, terroir and subsequent appellation, along with human intervention in the overall process.

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Alcoholic and non-alcoholic

Barley

A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea

Barley-based beverages – Barley is a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain. It was one of the first cultivated grains and is now grown widely. Barley is used in various beverages and as a source of fermentable material for beer and certain distilled beverages. In a 2007 ranking of cereal crops in the world, barley was fourth both in terms of quantity produced (136 million tons) and in area of cultivation (566,000 square kilometres or 219,000 square miles).[7]

Hot beverages

Mixed drinks

Mixed drinks – a mixed drink is a beverage in which two or more ingredients are mixed. Some mixed drinks contain liquor while others are non-alcoholic.

Non-alcoholic

Non-alcoholic beverages – Non-alcoholic beverages often signify drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer and wine but are made with less than .5 percent alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines.

Caffeinated

Espresso brewing, with a dark reddish-brown foam, called crema

Caffeinated beverages – a caffeinated drink or caffeinated beverage is a drink which contains caffeine, a stimulant which is legal and popular in most developed countries.

Chocolate

Chocolate beverages – chocolate is a processed, typically sweetened food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Its earliest documented use is by the Olmecs of south central Mexico around 1100 BC. The majority of Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Mayans and Aztecs,[8] who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl [ʃoˈkolaːt͡ɬ], a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water".

Historic

Historical beverages

Plant-based

Maize

Maize beverages

Rice

Rice drinks

Soft drinks

A glass of cola served with ice cubes and lemon

Soft drinks – a soft drink is a beverage that typically contains water (often, but not always, carbonated water), usually a sweetener and usually a flavoring agent. The sweetener may be sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, sugar substitutes (in the case of diet drinks) or some combination of these. Soft drinks may also contain caffeine, colorings, preservatives and other ingredients.

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By temperature

By country

Alcoholic beverages

By continent

Alcoholic beverages

Brands and companies

Beverage brands and companies exist worldwide. The beverage industry refers to the industry that produces drinks. Beverage production can vary greatly depending on the type of beverage being produced. Innovations in the beverage industry, catalyzed by requests for non-alcoholic beverages, include: beverage plants, beverage processing, and beverage packing.[9] Ready to drink packaged beverages are those sold in a prepared form, ready for consumption.

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References

  1. ↑ "Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004" (PDF). 2004. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  2. ↑ Barth, Roger. The Chemistry of Beer: The Science in the Suds, Wiley 2013: ISBN 978-1-118-67497-0.
  3. ↑ Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow (2006). The Prokaryotes: Proteobacteria: alpha and beta subclasses. Springer. p. 169. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  4. ↑ Britannica Online Encyclopedia: distilled spirit/distilled liquor
  5. ↑ OED cocktail, n.
  6. ↑ Johnson, H. (1989). Vintage: The Story of Wine. Simon & Schuster. pp. 11–6. ISBN 0-671-79182-6.
  7. ↑ "FAOSTAT". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
  8. ↑ Justin Kerr. "Chocolate: A Mesoamerican Luxury 1200—1521 – Obtaining Cacao". Field Museum. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  9. ↑ "Beverage Production". Manufacturingdrinks.com. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2013-05-21.

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