List of alcoholic drinks

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)
• Desi daru (made by fermenting molasses or high sugar containing fruits)
  • Kilju (Finnish)
• Huangjiu (made from rice, millet, or wheat using a special starter culture of yeast, mold, and bacteria)
• Icariine liquor
• Kasiri (made from cassava)
• 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) 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• Pulque (originally made by the natives of Mexico, made from the sap of the maguey plant)
• 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, shōchū, 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 known liquors

The following are liquors being produced around the world (by type, then alphabetically):

Cane sugar/sugar beet/honey distillations

• Arrack
• Cachaça
• Horilka a.k.a. Samohon
• Rum
  • Puncheon rum
• Rhum agricole (from French Caribbean islands)

Fruit distillations

• Apple distillations
  • Applejack
• Fruit brandy distillations
  • Pálenka - Slivovice, Hruškovice, Bezovice,....
  • Borovička - Juniper
  • Calvados
  • Lambig
  • Eau-de-vie (French origin)
  • Kirsch
  • Rakia
  • Schnapps - fruit brandy
  • Medronho
• Date distillations
  • Aragh Sagi
• Grape/wine distillations
  • Brandy
    • Armagnac
    • Cognac
    • Metaxa
    • Törkölypálinka
    • Singani
  • Pisco (Peru; Chile)
• Pear distillations
  • Poire Williams
    • Williamine - brand of Poire Williams made from Williamine pears
• Plum distillations
  • Damassine
  • Slivovitz
  • Ţuică
• Raspberry distillations
  • Chambord
  • Himbeergeist

Grain-based distillations

• Barley distillations
  • Gin
  • ManX Spirit (United kingdom)
  • London dry gin
  • Whisky
    • Irish whiskey
    • Japanese whisky
    • Scotch whisky a.k.a. Scottish whiskey, scotch
• maize-corn distillations
  • American Whiskey
    • Bourbon whiskey a.k.a. Kentucky whiskey, bourbon (United States)
    • Tennessee whiskey
    • Texas whiskey
  • Canadian whisky
• Quinoa distillations
  • American whiskey
• Oat distillations
  • Whiskey
    • American Whiskey
• Malt distillations
  • Jenever a.k.a. Genever
  • Gin
    • Damson gin
    • Sloe gin (England)
• Rice distillations
  • Awamori (Japan)
  • Soju (Korea)
  • Mirin (Japan)
  • Shōchū (Japan)
  • Baijiu (China)
• Rye distillations
  • Horilka a.k.a. Samohon
  • Rye Whiskey
• Sorghum distillations
  • Baijiu a.k.a. Shaojiu (China)
    • Maotai a.k.a. Moutai
    • Kaoliang liquor a.k.a. Gaoling liquor, sorghum liquor
• Wheat distillations
  • Horilka a.k.a. Samohon
  • Vodka
• Unspecified/multiple grain distillations
  • Neutral grain spirit

Herbal distillations

• Absinthe
• Herbsaint
• Schnapps
• Geist

Plant-based distillations

• Agave distillations
  • Mezcal
  • Tequila

Seed or botanical distillations

Where the seed or botanical is the dominant flavorant:

• Anise distillations
  • Absinthe
  • Akvavit
  • Arak
  • Rakı
• Coconut flower distillations
  • Arrack
• Gin
• Geist

Tree distillations

• Palm tree distillations
  • Ogogoro (Nigeria)
• Birch tree distillations
  • Freya Birch Spirit (Norway)

Vegetable distillations

• Potato distillations
  • Horilka a.k.a. Samohon
  • Vodka

Complex or multiple distillations

• Mamajuana
• Poitín a.k.a. potcheen, poteen, potheen
• Shōchū
• Baijiu
• Soju

Liqueur

See also

• Alcoholic coffee drink
• List of cocktails
• List of coffee beverages
• List of national drinks
• List of national liquors
• List of tequilas
• List of U.S. state beverages
• List of vodka brands
• List of whisky brands

References