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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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The U.S. state of Oregon has an extensive history of laws regulating the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages, dating back to 1844. It has been an alcoholic beverage control state, with the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission holding a monopoly over the sale of all distilled beverages, since Prohibition. Today, there are thriving industries producing beer, wine, and liquor in the state. Alcohol may be purchased between 7 a.m. and 2:30 a.m for consumption at the premise it was sold at, or between 6 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. if it is bought and taken off premise. In 2020, Oregon began allowing the sale of alcohol via home delivery services. As of 2007, consumption of spirits was on the rise while beer consumption held steady. That same year, 11% of beer sold in Oregon was brewed in-state, the highest figure in the United States.

Oregon wine production began in the mid-19th century, before it was a state. By 1919, the industry had collapsed due to prohibition, and after prohibition ended fruit wines dominated the industry. The modern era of Oregon wine began in 1961, and the industry cemented its reputation in 1975 by winning a French award. In 2007, wine making was a $207.8 million business. Beer production began in 1852 with Henry Saxer's liberty brewing in Portland. In 1862 Henry Weinhard's bought the Liberty brewery. The company is now a part of the Miller Brewing Company, but it helped Portland to become the microbrewing capital of the world. Portland hosts North America's largest beerfest, and Oregon has produced a number of national and international award winning beers. (Full article...)

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... 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 Drunkard's Progress suggests that a single social drink leads to poverty, crime, and suicide?
... that Ben Phillips replaced his friend's hair gel with superglue, put Viagra in his sports drink, and placed him on a lake while he slept on an inflatable mattress?
... that Al-Rantisi Hospital can extract drinking water from air?
... 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 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 Coca-Cola was originally invented by John Pemberton in 1886 as a medicine?

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

Image 1A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 2A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (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 4Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 5Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 6Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 7Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 9A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 10Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 11Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 12Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 13A classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 14A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 15Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 16Various 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 17Coffee accessories in small shops in Baščaršija, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 19Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 20Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 21A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 24Krupnik, the national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 252004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 26Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 27A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 28Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 29Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 30Characteristics 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 31Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 32A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 33Many in both Peru and Chile consider pisco sour their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 35A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 36Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 37Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 38Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 39Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 40Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 41Per capita, people in Turkey drink more tea than in any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 42Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming vodka in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 43The espresso comes from the Italian esprimere, which means "to express," and refers to the process by which hot water is forced under pressure through ground coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 44The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)

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The Pineapple Public House in the London Borough of Lambeth in London, England at night

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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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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...

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

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Citric acid is an organic compound with the formula C₆H₈O₇. 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 acidifier, flavoring, preservative, and 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.

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Miscellaneous:	Drink industry • Lemonade • Limeade • Orange drink • Slush (beverage)

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