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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 cup of Earl Grey tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of south-western China and northern Myanmar. Tea is also made, but rarely, from the leaves of Camellia taliensis. After plain water, tea is the most widely consumed drink in the world. There are many different types of tea; some have a cooling, slightly bitter, and astringent flavour, while others have profiles that include sweet, nutty, floral, or grassy notes. Tea has a stimulating effect in humans, primarily due to its caffeine content.

An early credible record of tea drinking dates to the third century AD, in a medical text written by Chinese physician Hua Tuo. It was popularised as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking subsequently spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among the English, who started to plant tea on a large scale in British India.

The term herbal tea refers to drinks not made from Camellia sinensis. They are the infusions of fruit, leaves, or other plant parts, such as steeps of rosehip, chamomile, or rooibos. These may be called tisanes or herbal infusions to prevent confusion with tea made from the tea plant. (Full article...)

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... that the chairman of the board of a Texas TV station was found to have died from drinking cyanide-laced cola?
... that the "Mayor of Picklesburgh" is decided by a pickle juice drinking competition?
... 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 Robert J. O'Brien said that he did not drink alcohol, despite owning a saloon and being elected as alderman by a district containing more than 250 bars?
... that some insects drink the tears of their predators?
... 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 the first written record of whiskey comes from 1405 in Ireland and it is also mentioned in Scotland in 1496?

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Image 1Libyan tea with peanuts (from List of national drinks)
Image 2A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3The espresso comes from the Italian esprimere, which means "to express," and refers to the process by which hot water is forced under pressure through ground coffee. (from List of national 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 5Palm wine is an alcoholic beverage created from the sap of various species of palm trees such as the palmyra, date palms, and coconut palms. It is known by various names in different regions and is common in various parts of Africa, the Caribbean, South America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia. (from List of national drinks)
Image 6A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 7The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia. (from List of national drinks)
Image 10Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming vodka in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 11Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 12Australian iced coffee served with ice-cream and coffee beans (from List of national drinks)
Image 13Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 14Various 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 15A classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 17Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 19The spritz is an Italian wine-based cocktail, commonly served as an apéritif across Italy. It consists of Prosecco, digestive bitters, and soda water. The original spritz veneziano uses Select as bitters and was created in Venice in 1920. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20A glass of grappa, a grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin. Grappa is a protected name in the European Union. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 23Per capita, people in Turkey drink more tea than in any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 24Many in both Peru and Chile consider pisco sour their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 25Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 26Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 27Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28Coffee accessories in small shops in Baščaršija, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (from List of national drinks)
Image 29Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 30Mai Tai is a cocktail made of rum, Curaçao liqueur, orgeat syrup, and lime juice. It is one of the characteristic cocktails in Tiki culture. (from List of national drinks)
Image 31The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 32Piña colada, a cocktail made with rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice. It may be garnished with either a pineapple wedge, maraschino cherry, or both. The drink originated in Puerto Rico. (from List of national drinks)
Image 33Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 342004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 35Krupnik, the national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 37A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 38Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 39Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 40Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 41Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 42Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 43A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 45Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 46Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 47Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 48Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 49Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 50Akpeteshie is a liquor produced by distilling palm wine or sugar cane, primarily in the region of Western Africa. (from List of national drinks)

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Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (née Liebscher, January 31, 1873 – June 29, 1950) was a German inventor and entrepreneur known for revolutionizing the process of coffee brewing with her invention of the coffee filter. Her company, Melitta, has long been a significant leader in the coffee industry. Her contributions enhanced coffee preparation methods and influenced coffee culture around the world. (Full article...)

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When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.

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— Gene Logsdon
Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol

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Citric acid is an organic compound with the formula C₆H₈O₇. 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 acidifier, flavoring, preservative, and 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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