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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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Pepsi-Cola in a plastic bottle.

Pepsi-Cola is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in stores, restaurants and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by pharmacist Erich Drafahl in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16, 1903. There have been many Pepsi variants produced over the years since 1903, including Diet Pepsi, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Samba, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Gold, Pepsi Holiday Spice, Pepsi Jazz, Pepsi X (available in Finland and Brazil), Pepsi Next (available in Japan and South Korea), Pepsi Raw, Pepsi Retro in Mexico, Pepsi One, Pepsi Ice Cucumber and Pepsi White in Japan.

In October 2008, Pepsi announced they would be redesigning their logo and re-branding many of their products by early 2009. In 2009, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max began using all lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew has been renamed "Mtn Dew", and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max. The brand's blue and red globe trademark became a series of "smiles," with the central white band arcing at different angles depending on the product. The new imagery is starting to be used. In the case of Pepsi, the logo has the medium-sized "smile", while the new lower-case font used on Pepsi's products are to be reminiscent of the font used in Diet Pepsi's logo from 1975-86. (Full article...)

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... that Phil Elverum recorded Don't Wake Me Up nocturnally, while "drinking pots of black tea all night"?
... 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 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 the John Snow pub is named for a shy British epidemiologist who did not drink?
... that salt marsh snakes drink only rainwater?
... that The Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?

... that Absinthe, which contains distillates of wormwood, was illegal in the United States until 2007?

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Image 1A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 2Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 4Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 5Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 6A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 7Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 8The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 10Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 11Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 12A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 13Clear 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 14Krupnik, a national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 15A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 16A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 17Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 18A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 19Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 20Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 21Many in both Peru and Chile think that pisco sour is their national drink. (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 24Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 25Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 26Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 27The new Seven Color Tea, a recent competitor for national drink of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28Classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 29A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 302004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 31Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 32Characteristics 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 33Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 34Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 35Per capita, Turkey drinks more tea than any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 37Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 38Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 39The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 40Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Various 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 42A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 43Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44Bosnian 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)

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Racial segregation in the United States

Credit: Russell Lee, July, 1939

An illustration of racial segregation in the United States (Jim Crow laws) in a mid 20^th century photograph showing a "Colored" drinking fountain in Oklahoma City with an African-American drinking.

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Hiram Walker (July 4, 1816 – January 12, 1899) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. He purchased land across the Detroit River, just east of what is Windsor, Ontario, and established a distillery in 1858 in what would become Walkerville, Ontario. Walker began selling his whisky as Hiram Walker's Club Whisky, in containers that were "clearly marked" and he used a process to make his whisky that was vastly different from all other distillers.

It became very popular, angering American distillers, who forced the US government to pass a law requiring that all foreign whiskeys state their country of origin on the label. From this point forward, Hiram Walker's Canadian Club whisky was Canada's top export whisky. He established and maintained the company town that grew around his distillery, exercising planning and control over every facet of the town, from public works to religious services to police and fire control. (Full article...)

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“

Vodka Martini. Shaken, not stirred.

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— James Bond
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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hybrid skeletal structure of the caffeine molecule

Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class. It is mainly used as a eugeroic (wakefulness promoter) or as a mild cognitive enhancer to increase alertness and attentional performance. Caffeine acts by blocking binding of adenosine to the adenosine A₁ receptor, which enhances release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Caffeine has a three-dimensional structure similar to that of adenosine, which allows it to bind and block its receptors. Caffeine also increases cyclic AMP levels through nonselective inhibition of phosphodiesterase.

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline purine, a methylxanthine alkaloid, and is chemically related to the adenine and guanine bases of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA). It is found in the seeds, fruits, nuts, or leaves of a number of plants native to Africa, East Asia and South America, and helps to protect them against herbivores and from competition by preventing the germination of nearby seeds, as well as encouraging consumption by select animals such as honey bees. The best-known source of caffeine is the coffee bean, the seed of the Coffea plant. People may drink beverages containing caffeine to relieve or prevent drowsiness and to improve cognitive performance. To make these drinks, caffeine is extracted by steeping the plant product in water, a process called infusion. Caffeine-containing drinks, such as coffee, tea, and cola, are consumed globally in high volumes. In 2020, almost 10 million tonnes of coffee beans were consumed globally. Caffeine is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug. Unlike most other psychoactive substances, caffeine remains largely unregulated and legal in nearly all parts of the world. Caffeine is also an outlier as its use is seen as socially acceptable in most cultures and even encouraged in others. (Full article...)

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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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