BEVERAGES

What is a beverage
A beverage is a drink specifically prepared
for human consumption
Classification of beverages
Temperature
Pressure
Content of alcohol
Kinds of Non Alcoholic Beverages
Juice
Fruit juice
Vegetable juice
Nectars
Soft Drinks
Ades
Frozen ades
Carbonated drinks
Kinds of Non Alcoholic Beverages
Dairy Beverages
Flavored
Fermented

Non Dairy drinks
Kinds of Non Alcoholic Beverages
Hot Beverages (sometimes drunk cold)
Tea
Coffee
Hot chocolate

Kinds of Non Alcoholic Beverages
What is an alcoholic beverage?
A beverage that contains a portion of
ethanol. (CH3CH2OH)
Ethanol is produced by a process called
fermentation - the metabolism of
carbohydrates by certain species of yeast
in the absence of oxygen

Sugar Alcohol
Yeast
Absence of oxygen
Alcoholic content
Alcohol by Volume (ABV)-is an indication of how
much alcohol (expressed as a percentage) is
included in an alcoholic beverage/ expressed in
degrees Gay Lussac
Alcohol by Weight
ABV = 1.25 ABW
or, inversely:
ABW = 0.8 ABV
Proof (roughly twice of ABV) expressed in proof.

Some history of alcoholic
beverages
Earliest Origins:
The discovery of late stone age beer jugs
establish the fact that intentionally
fermented beverages existed at least as
early as 10000 BC.
It may have preceded bread as a staple
Earliest alcoholic beverages may have
been made from berries or honey.

Some history of alcoholic
beverages
Egypt
Alcoholic beverages were very important in ancient
Egypt
Sesmu was worshipped all throughout the country. It
was believed that Sesmu also invented beer.
It was brewed in the home on a daily basis.
They made at least 17 kinds of beer and 24 varieties of
wine.
Alcoholic beverages were used for pleasure, nutrition,
medicine, ritual, remuneration and funerary purposes.
They did not generally appear to define drunkenness as
a problem but they warned against excessive drinking
Some history of alcoholic
beverages
China
Their drink was produced by fermenting rice,
honey and fruit, 9000 years ago.
Alcohol was considered a spiritual food rather
than a material food.
People drank when holding a memorial
ceremony, offering sacrifices to gods or their
ancestors, pledging resolution before going to a
battle, celebrating victory, at the time of a birth,
marriage, departures, death and festivals.
Some history of alcoholic
beverages
China
The use of alcohol in moderation was prescribed by
heaven
Alcohol was important for hospitality, an antidote for
fatigue and sometimes, it was misused.
Laws against making wine were enacted and repealed
forty one times between 1100BC and 1400AD.
A commentator wrote people will not do without beer.
To prohibit it and secure total abstinence from it is
beyond the power of even the sages. Hence, we have
warnings against the abuse of it

Some history of alcoholic
beverages
The first alcoholic beverage to be made by Greece was
mead.
The art of wine making itself reached Greece by about
2000BC
It was incorporated into religious rituals, hospitality,
medicinal purposes and an integral part of daily meals.
It was drunk warm or chilled. Pure or mixed with water,
plain and spiced.
Greeks were among the most temperate of ancient
people.
They stresses on rules about moderate drinking and
avoidance of excess in general.

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