List of alcoholic drinks

For a list of national alcoholic drinks by country, see List of national liquors.
Main article: Alcoholic drink

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.[1] In particular, such laws specify the minimum age at which a person may legally buy or drink them. This minimum age varies between 16 and 25 years, depending upon the country and the type of drink. Most nations set it at 18 years of age.[1]

Contents

• 1 Drinks by raw material
• 2 Fermented drinks
• 3 Distilled drinks
• 4 See also
• 5 References

Drinks by raw material[edit]

For micro-organisms, see List of microorganisms used in food and beverage preparation and yeast in winemaking.

The names of some alcoholic drinks are determined by their raw material.

Fermented drinks[edit]

Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale
A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S.
Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Desi daru from India

• 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)
• Chicha (made from cassava, maize root, grape, apple or other fruits)
• Cider (made from apple juice or other fruit juice)
  • Perry (pear cider)
  • Plum jerkum (made from plums)
• Desi daru (made by fermenting molasses or high sugar containing fruits)
• Huangjiu (Chinese, made from rice, millet, or wheat using a special starter culture of yeast, mold, and bacteria)
• Icariine Liquor
• Kasiri (made from cassava)
• Kilju (Finnish, made from sugar)
• Kumis (Central Asia, traditionally made from horse milk but now primarily cow milk)
• Mead (made from honey)
• Nihamanchi (South America) a.k.a. 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)
• Sakurá (made from cassava)
• Sake (made from rice)
• Sonti
• Tepache
• Tiswin (made from corn or saguaro, a large cactus)
• Tonto
• Wine
  • Fortified wine
    • Port
    • Madeira
    • Marsala
    • Sherry
    • Vermouth
    • Vinsanto
  • Fruit wine
  • Table wine
  • Sangria
  • Sparkling wine
    • Champagne

Distilled drinks[edit]

A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon
Various 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.
Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka

A distilled drink, spirit, 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 grain, fruit, or vegetables.[3] This excludes undistilled fermented beverages such as beer, wine, and cider. Vodka, gin, baijiu, tequila, rum, whisky, brandy, Singani[4] and soju are examples of distilled drinks.

Hard liquor is used in North America and India to distinguish distilled drinks from undistilled ones (implicitly weaker).

• Spirits
  • Absinthe
  • Akvavit
  • Applejack
  • Arak
  • Arrack
  • Awamori
  • Baijiu
  • Borovička
  • Brandy
    • Armagnac
    • Cognac
    • Fruit brandy, Eau-de-vie (French), Schnapps – Obstwasser (German)
      • Damassine
      • Himbeergeist
      • Kirsch
      • Poire Williams
      • Williamine
  • Cachaça
  • Gin
    • Damson gin
    • Sloe gin
  • Horilka
  • Kaoliang wine
  • Mamajuana
  • Maotai
  • Metaxa
  • Mezcal
  • Neutral grain spirit
  • Ogogoro
  • Ouzo
  • Palinka
  • Pisco
  • Poitín
  • Rakı
  • Rakia
    • Slivovitz
  • Rum
    • Puncheon rum
  • Shōchū
  • Singani
  • Soju
  • Tequila
  • Ţuică
  • Vodka
  • Whisky
    • Bourbon whiskey
    • Canadian whisky
    • Irish whiskey
    • Japanese whisky
    • ManX Spirit
    • Rye whiskey
    • Scotch whisky
    • Tennessee whiskey
• Liqueurs

Main article: List of liqueurs

See also[edit]

• Alcoholic drinks portal
• Cocktails portal
• Drink portal
• Liquor portal
• Beer portal
• Wine portal

• List of cocktails
• List of coffee beverages
• List of national liquors
• List of tequilas
• List of U.S. state beverages
• List of vodkas
• List of whisky brands

References[edit]

Caffeinated drinks

• Coffee drinks
• Energy drinks

By country

• Bolivian drinks
• Brazilian drinks
• Chinese alcoholic drinks
• Chinese teas
• Cuban drinks
• France
  • AOC wines
  • VDQS wines
• Indian drinks
• Indonesian drinks
• Italian
  • Italian soda
  • Wines
    • Italian DOC wines
    • Italian DOCG wines
    • Italian IGT wines
• Japanese wine
• Korean drinks
  • Korean alcoholic drinks
• Vietnamese wine

• Category
• Commons
• WikiProject Food and drink

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alcoholic_drinks