This is a list of alcoholic drinks. An alcoholic drink is a drink that contains ethanol, commonly known as alcohol. Alcoholic drinks are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and distilled beverages. They are legally consumed in most countries, and over one hundred countries have laws regulating their production, sale, and consumption. In particular, such laws specify the minimum age at which a person may legally buy or drink them. This minimum age varies between 15 and 21 years, depending upon the country and the type of drink. Most nations set it at 18 years of age.
Drinks by raw material
The names of some alcoholic drinks are determined by their raw material.
Alcoholic fermented drinks
- Beer
- Ale
- Barleywine
- Bitter ale
- Brown ale
- Cask ale
- Mild ale
- Old ale
- Pale ale
- Scotch ale
- Porter (dark beer made from brown malt)
- Stout (strong Porter)
- Stock ale
- Fruit beer
- Lager
- Pale lager (also "dry beer", made with a slow acting yeast that ferments at a low temperature while being stored)
- Bock (strong lager)
- Maerzen/Oktoberfest Beer
- Pilsener (lighter lager brewed with partially malted barley)
- Schwarzbier (dark lager)
- Sahti (Finnish)
- Small beer (very low alcohol)
- Wheat beer (or "Hefeweizen", made with wheat in addition to malted barley)
- Witbier ("White Beer", made with herbs or fruit instead of or in addition to hops)
- Cauim (made from cassava or maize)
- Cheongju (Korean, made from rice)
- Chicha (made from cassava, maize root, grape, apple or other fruits)
- Cider (made from apple juice or other fruit juice)
- Perry (made from pears)
- Plum jerkum (made from plums)
- Huangjiu (made from rice, millet, or wheat using a special starter culture of yeast, mold, and bacteria)
- Icariine liquor
- Kasiri (made from cassava)
- Kilju (made from sugar or honey)
- Kumis (Central Asia, traditionally made from horse milk but now primarily cow milk)
- Makgeolli (Korean, made from rice)
- Mead (made from honey)
- Nihamanchi (South America), also known as nijimanche (Ecuador and Peru) (made from cassava)
- Palm wine (made from the sap of various palm trees)
- Parakari (made from cassava)
- Pulque (originally made by the natives of Mexico, made from the sap of the maguey plant)
- Sake (made from (polished) rice)
- Sakurá (made from cassava)
- Sato
- Sonti
- Tapuy (Philippines, made from glutinous rice)
- Tepache
- Tiswin (made from corn or saguaro, a large cactus)
- Tonto
- Wine
- Coca wine
- Fortified wine
- Port
- Madeira
- Marsala
- Sherry
- Vermouth
- Vinsanto
- Fruit wine
- Table wine
- Sangria
- Sparkling wine
- Champagne
Distilled beverages
Definition
A distilled beverage, spirit drink, or liquor is an alcoholic drink containing ethanol that is produced by distillation (i.e., concentrating by distillation) of ethanol produced by means of fermenting grains, fruits, botanicals, vegetables, seeds, or roots. Vodka, gin, baijiu, shÃ
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«, soju, tequila, rum, whisky, brandy, and singani are examples of distilled drinks. Beer, wine, cider, sake, and huangjiu are examples of fermented drinks.
Hard liquor is used in North America, and India, to distinguish distilled drinks from undistilled ones, and to suggest that undistilled are implicitly weaker.
List of liquors
The following are liquors being produced around the world (by type, then alphabetically):
Cane sugar, sugar beet and honey distillations
Fruit distillations
Grain-based distillations
Herbal distillations
Plant-based distillations
Seed or botanical distillations
Where the seed or botanical is the dominant flavorant:
Tree distillations
Vegetable distillations
Complex or multiple distillations
See also
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