Beverages can be alcoholic or non-alcoholic. Non-alcoholic beverages include nourishing, stimulating, and refreshing drinks. Alcoholic beverages are either fermented or distilled. Fermented beverages include wines made from grapes and beers made from barley, while distilled beverages like whiskey, vodka, rum, and brandy are made by distilling grains. Compound beverages like gin, bitters, and liqueurs are flavored alcoholic drinks made through processes like distillation and steeping herbs. Popular brand names of various alcoholic drinks are also listed.

1. BEVERAGEWhat is beverage?Any potable drink is beverage.Beverage comes from Latin word ‘bever’it means rest after work.Beverage gives energy and make our body refresh.

2. Types of beverages?There are two types of beverage.Non alcoholic beverages.Alcoholic beverages. Non alcoholic beverages. As the name suggest these are without alcohol.

3. Types of non alcoholic beveragesThere are different types of alcoholic beverages.Nourishing beverages Stimulating beveragesRefreshing beverages

4. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES DistilledCompoundWhiskyVodkaRum BrandyTequilaFermented WINES(a) Table(b) Fortified(c) Sparkling(d) AromatizedBEERSGinLiqueursBitters

5. FERMENTED BEVERAGESWines: These are the beverages which are made by the fermentation of grapes.They can be red wine, white wine, rose wine or sparkling wine. the alcoholic contents of wines are 9 to 22 %.Beers: they are also fermented beverages but not matured in casks. They are made by barley. The alcoholic %is 4 to 8 in beers.

7. Distilled beveragesThese are made by distillation of various cereals like oat,wheat,rye,barley,grains etc.The alcoholic % of these beverages are 40 to50.1ml alcohol gives 7 calorie to our body.They are whisky,vodka,rum,brandy and tequila.Each drink has its own characteristic, flavour,taste,aroma.Tequila is considered highly alcoholic %drink.Cocktails are mixture of alcoholic beverages.

8. Compound beveragesThey are flavoured drinks of herbs, barks, fruits,seeds,spices.The method is same like distillation but we add flavour by mecessration,steeping,percolation method.They are gin,bitters and liqueurs.

9. BRAND NAMES OF SINGLE MALTsOben

10. Talisker

11. Glenfiddich

12. Glenfarclas

13. Glenkiniche

14. Glenlivit

15. Dalwinie

16. Craggenmore