List of alcoholic drinks

This is a list of alcoholic beverages. An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing ethanol, commonly known as alcohol. Alcoholic beverages are divided into three general classes: beers, wines, and spirits (or distilled beverage). They are legally consumed in most countries, and over 100 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]

Fermented beverages

Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale

A hard cider produced in Michigan state, U.S.

Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Beer
- Ale
  - Barleywine
  - Bitter ale
  - Brown ale
  - Mild ale
  - Old ale
  - Pale ale
    - Scotch ale
  - Porter (dark beer made from brown malt)
    - Stout (strong Porter)
  - Cask ale
  - 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 manioc or maize)
Chicha (made from maize, manioc root, grape, apple or other fruits)
Cider (made from apple juice or other fruit juice)
- Perry (pear cider)
- Plum jerkum (made from plums)
Huangjiu (Chinese, made from rice, millet, or wheat using a special starter culture of yeast, mold, and bacteria)
Icariine Liquor
Kilju (Finnish, made from sugar)
Kumis (Central Asia, traditionally made from horse milk but now primarily cow milk)
Mead (made from honey)
Palm wine (made from the sap of various palm trees)
Pulque (originally made by the natives of Mexico, made from the sap of the maguey plant)
Sake (made from rice)
Sonti
Tepache
Tonto
Tiswin (made from corn or saguaro, a large cactus)
Wine
- Fruit wine
- Table wine
- Sangria
- Sparkling wine
  - Champagne
- Fortified wine
  - Port
  - Madeira
  - Marsala
  - Sherry
  - Vermouth
  - Vinsanto

Distilled beverages

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 beverage, spirit, or liquor is an alcoholic beverage containing ethanol that is produced by distilling (i.e., concentrating by distillation) ethanol produced by means of fermenting grain, fruit, or vegetables.^[2] This excludes undistilled fermented beverages such as beer, wine, and cider. Vodka, gin, baijiu, tequila, rum, whisky, brandy, and soju are examples of distilled beverages.