Portal:Drink

Portal topics: Activities; Culture; Geography; Health; History; Mathematics; Nature; People; Philosophy; Religion; Society; Technology; Random portal

The Drink Portal

A portal dedicated to all beverages

Introduction

P:Drink

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...)

Refresh with new selections below (purge)

Selected article - show another

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...)

More selected articles

Did you know? - load new batch

... 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 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 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 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 Al-Rantisi Hospital can extract drinking water from air?

... there is a white variety of Tempranillo grapes?

Other "Did you know" facts...

Read more...

General images - show new batch

The following are images from various drink-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 2The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 4A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 5Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 6Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 7A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 9Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 10A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 11Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 12Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (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 14Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 15Characteristics 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 16Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 17Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18Espresso brewing, with a dark reddish-brown foam, called crema (from List of drinks)
Image 19Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 24Hot chocolate served with a croissant (from List of drinks)
Image 25Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 26Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 27Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 29Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 30The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 31Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 32A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 33Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 35A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 36Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 37A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 38Various 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 39Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 40A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 42Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 43A glass of cola served with ice cubes and lemon (from List of drinks)
Image 44Clear 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 45Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 46Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 472004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)

Selected image - show another

Martini (cocktail)

Credit: Chris Corwin

A classic martini with a twist of lime

More selected pictures

Selected biography - show another

Bradham, c. 1900

Caleb Davis Bradham (May 27, 1867 – February 19, 1934) was an American pharmacist, best known as the inventor of soft drink Pepsi. (Full article...)

List of selected biographies

Selected quote - show another

“

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it...

”

— Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987)
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)

More selected quotes

Selected ingredient - show another

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.

(Full article...)

More selected ingredients

Topics

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)

List articles

More drink list articles

Subcategories

Category puzzle

Select [►] to view subcategories

Related portals

WikiProjects

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.

WikiProject Beer – covers Wikipedia's coverage of beer and breweries and microbreweries

WikiProject Wine – aims to compile thorough and accurate information on different vineyards, wineries and varieties of wines, including but not limited to their qualities, origins, and uses.

Child projects:	Task forces: (All inactive)
Wikiproject Bacon WikiProject Bartending WikiProject Breakfast WikiProject Spirits	Beverages task force Cheeses task force Coffee and Tea task force Desserts task force Foodservice task force Herbs and Spices task force Pub task force
Related projects:
WikiProject Agriculture WikiProject Fishing and Fisheries
view