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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 tea bag being removed from a mug of hot tea to stop the brewing process

A tea bag or teabag is a small, porous, sealed bag or packet, typically containing tea leaves or the leaves of other herbs, which is immersed in water to steep and make an infusion. Originally used only for tea (Camellia sinensis), they are now made with other tisanes ("herbal teas") as well.

Tea bags are commonly made of filter paper or food-grade plastic, or occasionally of silk cotton or silk. The tea bag performs the same function as a tea infuser. Tea bags can be used multiple times until there is no extraction left. Some tea bags have an attached piece of string with a paper label at the top that assists in removing the bag, while also displaying the brand or variety of tea. There are also special tea filters that can be used to pour loose tea into and brew it in a bag in a cup. (Full article...)

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... 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 an image of MacCarthy's Bar on the front cover of a book featured a staff member posing as a nun drinking a pint of Guinness and the surprise appearance of a dog?
... that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton?
... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?
... 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 Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?

... 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 1A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 2Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 4The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 5Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 62004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 7Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 8Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 10Clear 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 11The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 12A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 13Bosnian 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 14Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 15Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 17Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 19A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Characteristics 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 24Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 25A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 26Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 27Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 29Various 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 30The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 31Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 32A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 33Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 35Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 37Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 38Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 39Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 40Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 42Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 43A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)

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Hot chocolate

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A cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream and topped with cocoa powder

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Ludwig Roselius by Nicola Perscheid c. 1905

Ludwig Roselius (2 June 1874 – 15 May 1943) was a German coffee merchant and founder of the company Kaffee HAG. He was born in Bremen and is credited with the development of commercial decaffeination of coffee. As a patron, he supported artists like Paula Modersohn-Becker and Bernard Hoetger and turned the Böttcherstrasse street in Bremen into an artwork. (Full article...)

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You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest-lived.

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— Bernard DeVoto
Harper's Magazine (December 1949)

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Hop cone in a Hallertau, Germany, hop yard

Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus, a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to which, in addition to bitterness, they impart floral, fruity, or citrus flavours and aromas. Hops are also used for various purposes in other beverages and herbal medicine. The hops plants have separate female and male plants, and only female plants are used for commercial production. The hop plant is a vigorous, climbing, herbaceous perennial, usually trained to grow up strings in a field called a hopfield, hop garden (in the South of England), or hop yard (in the West Country and United States) when grown commercially. Many different varieties of hops are grown by farmers around the world, with different types used for particular styles of beer.

The first documented use of hops in beer is from the 9th century, though Hildegard of Bingen, 300 years later, is often cited as the earliest documented source. Before this period, brewers used a "gruit", composed of a wide variety of bitter herbs and flowers, including dandelion, burdock root, marigold, horehound (the old German name for horehound, Berghopfen, means "mountain hops"), ground ivy, and heather. Early documents include mention of a hop garden in the will of Charlemagne's father, Pepin the Short.

Hops are also used in brewing for their antibacterial effect over less desirable microorganisms and for purported benefits including balancing the sweetness of the malt with bitterness and a variety of flavours and aromas. It is believed that traditional herb combinations for beers were abandoned after it was noticed that beers made with hops were less prone to spoilage.

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General topics:	Bartending • Bottling • Drinking • Drinking water • Bottled water • Mineral water • Coffee • Energy drink • Juice • Tea • Milk • Plant milk • Pasteurization • Refrigeration • Steeping • Water purification
Alcoholic beverages:	Beer • Brandy • Brewing • Caffeinated alcoholic drinks • Cider • Cocktails • Distillation • Fermentation • Hard soda • Liquor • Liqueur • Malt drink • Mead • Proof • Rice Wine • Schnapps • Vodka • Whiskey • Wine
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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WikiProject Food & Drink is an association of Wikipedians with an interest in culinary-related subjects. They have come together to co-ordinate the development of food and drink articles here on Wikipedia as well as the many subjects related to food such as foodservice, catering and restaurants. If you wish to learn more about these subjects as well as get involved, please visit the project.

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