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A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, juice, smoothies and soft drinks. Traditionally warm beverages include coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Caffeinated drinks that contain the stimulant caffeine have a long history.

In addition, alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer, and liquor, which contain the drug ethanol, have been part of human culture for more than 8,000 years. Non-alcoholic drinks often signify drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer, wine and cocktails, but are made with a sufficiently low concentration of alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines. (Full article...)

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A bhikkhuni roasting tea leaves in Daejeon, Korea

Tea processing is the method in which the leaves from the tea plant Camellia sinensis are transformed into the dried leaves for brewing tea.

The categories of tea are distinguished by the processing they undergo. In its most general form, tea processing involves different manners and degrees of oxidation of the leaves, stopping the oxidation, forming the tea and drying it.

The innate flavor of the dried tea leaves is determined by the type of cultivar of the tea bush, the quality of the plucked tea leaves, and the manner and quality of the production processing they undergo. After processing, a tea may be blended with other teas or mixed with flavourants to alter the flavor of the final tea. When producing black, pu'erh and oolong teas there is an additional purpose of processing: to encourage oxidization, which further develops flavour and aroma compounds. (Full article...)

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... that salt marsh snakes drink only rainwater?
... that the relatively low standards of player selection for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1883 have been described as being "determined with a nod and a wink over drinks"?
... that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
... that Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of her undercover CIA husband, but ultimately settled there and introduced bottled water to the country?
... that Ben Phillips replaced his friend's hair gel with superglue, put Viagra in his sports drink, and placed him on a lake while he slept on an inflatable mattress?
... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?

... that Baileys Irish Cream was the first liqueur to use cream and alcohol together in a manner sufficiently stable to allow commercial distribution?

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Image 1Various views of a bottle of mezcal. The "worm", which is actually the larval form of the moth Hypopta agavis that lives on the agave plant, can be seen in the middle image, at the bottom of the bottle. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 2Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 4Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 5Characteristics of boba tea (also known as "bubble tea" or "pearl milk tea") -- the national drink of Taiwan -- are the tapioca balls that rest at the bottom of the beverage that are drunk with a wide straw. (from List of national drinks)
Image 6Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 7Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 8Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 10Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 11Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 12A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 13Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 14A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 15Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 17A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 19The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 24Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 25Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 26Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 27Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 29Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 30Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 31Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 32Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 33A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 34Bosnian Coffee accessory manufacturers' small shops in Baščaršija - drink is important part of country's culture, and was major part of its economy in the past. (from List of national drinks)
Image 35Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 362004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 37Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 38The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 39A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 40Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 42Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming it in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 43A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 44Cider (from List of drinks)

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Coca Cola in its signature logo glass

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A glass of iced Coca Cola in its signature logo glass

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The Bronfman family is a Canadian family, known for its extensive business holdings. It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman (1889–1971), the most influential Canadian Jew of the mid-20th century, who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during American prohibition, including the sale of liquor through organized crime, through founding the Seagram Company, and who later became president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1939–62).

The family is of Russian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish ancestry; the patriarch, Yechiel (Ekiel) Bronfman, was originally a tobacco farmer from Bessarabia. According to The New York Times staff reporter Nathaniel Popper, the Bronfman family is "perhaps the single largest force in the Jewish charitable world". (Full article...)

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“

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

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— A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad LXII.

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Citric acid is an organic compound with the chemical formula H O C(CO₂H)(CH₂CO₂H)₂. It is a colorless weak organic acid. It occurs naturally in citrus fruits. In biochemistry, it is an intermediate in the citric acid cycle, which occurs in the metabolism of all aerobic organisms.

More than two million tons of citric acid are manufactured every year. It is used widely as an acidifier, as a flavoring, and a chelating agent.

A citrate is a derivative of citric acid; that is, the salts, esters, and the polyatomic anion found in solutions and salts of citric acid. An example of the former, a salt is trisodium citrate; an ester is triethyl citrate. When citrate trianion is part of a salt, the formula of the citrate trianion is written as C
₆H
₅O³⁻
₇ or C
₃H
₅O(COO)³⁻
₃.

Used in Soft drinks, Sports drinks.

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Soft Drinks:	Carbonation • Cola • Orange soft drink • Frozen carbonated drink • Root beer • Soda water • Lithia water •
Miscellaneous:	Drink industry • Lemonade • Limeade • Orange drink • Slush (beverage)

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