Drink

Resources in this category:

About.com: Beer
http://beer.about.com/

An Internet guide for beer and beer brewing, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include festivals, buying clubs, ingredients, breweries, pubs, and brewing industry.

About.Com: Cocktails
http://cocktails.about.com/

Cocktail recipes, information, articles, links, spirits, history, chat, free postcards, forum, newsletter, and more all cocktail related!

About.com: Coffee/Tea
http://coffeetea.about.com/

An Internet guide to coffee and tea, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include drinks, foods, brewing & roasting, and lifestyles.

Coffee @ nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/coffee/

Information about coffee from around the world. Includes legends and the history of coffee, a map of coffee-growing regions in the world, information about different roasts, and a link to a National Geographic article about coffee.

Epicurious
http://www.epicurious.com/

This site contains not only articles about food, dining and entertaining, but reviews of restaurants and cookbooks (including recipes), and a searchable database of over 5000 recipes from Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines.

Jerry Thomas’ Bartender’s Guide or How to Mix Drinks
http://www.theartofdrink.com/book/

Reproducing an 1862 bartender's reference, written and published by Jerry Thomas (1825-1885), this site "is a vast resource for making drinks popular in the 1800’s," most of which are still popular now.

Learn2 Hold a Wine Tasting
http://www.iwon.com/home/info/learn2/tutorials_qa_overview/0...

"Included here is a review of how to enjoy wine, along with suggestions for hosting an informal tasting."

The Meadery
http://mysite.verizon.net/mshapiro_42/

"This page is dedicated to that most ancient of fermented beverages, mead, with information on wine, beer and cider as well. Other alcoholic beverages are also fair game, as well as a few miscellaneous links that I find of interest." This comprehensive page includes many annotated links to other brewing pages. Additionally, his section on "Alcoholic Drinks of the Middle Ages" includes the histories of and recipes for everything from wine to brandy to vinegar.

Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/brewing.html

This site provides information on Medieval and Renaissance Brewing such as ³Honeys, and their affects on mead², ³Alcoholic Drinks of the Middle Ages², ³Brewing on the Dark Side², ³Early Medieval Brewing², ³Medieval Wines: How sweet were they?², etc.

Mixed-Drink.com
http://www.mixed-drink.com/

Recipes for alcoholic drinks. Drinks are categorized by type of alcohol, with special categories for frozen and hot drinks. The site is also searchable.

The Origins and Ancient History of Wine
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Wine/wineintro.html

The history of wine during the Neolithic Period, in Egypt, and in Mesopotamia. There's a glossary of terms. If you think you already know about the history of wine, try the short quiz.

The Origins and Ancient History of Wine
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/online_exhibits/win...

The history of wine and its effects on the cultures that used it.

Professional Friends of Wine
http://www.winepros.org/index.htm

"PfW is dedicated to increasing wine appreciation by providing wine education, wine information, and wine training, and offering wine opinions. Our mission is to spread wine knowledge and enthusiasm and to dispel any and all snobbery and myth regarding wine."

The Real Beer Page
http://www.realbeer.com/

This site has extensive information about beer, brewpubs, microbreweries, homebrewing, and the beer industry. It includes a list of upcoming beer festivals and other beer events, publications about beer, and a searchable database of breweries, bars, and brewpubs in the US and Canada.

Robin Garr's Wine Bargain Page
http://www.iglou.com/why/wine.html

"Non-commercial tasting notes on many table wines of good value, along with much wine-education material, vintage charts, a wine-tasting tutorial and more; all aimed at demystifying and demythologizing the snob aspects of moderate wine consumption." You can also e-mail wine-related questions.

Sake World
http://www.sake-world.com/

"Welcome to John Gauntner's Sake World, a site devoted to Japanese sake." The site includes a newsletter, tasting tips, a glossary of sake-related terms, explanations of sake's history and regional variations, and a list of top 100 sake picks. Gautner is the author of the Sake Handbook and coauthor of Sake: Pure & Simple.

The Samuel Adams Beer Encyclopedia
http://www.samueladams.com/

An encyclopedia and historical timeline related to beer and brewing. You must be over 21 to enter the website and are required to enter your birthday. Once on the site, you can navigate to the encyclopedia and the history of beer through the "World of Beer" link.

Spencer's Beer Page
http://realbeer.com/spencer/

"Geared mostly towards homebrewers, with a little bit of general beer info." Includes a brewing FAQ, a guide to recipe files, and a searchable archive of brewing mailing lists.

Webtender
http://www.webtender.com/

Searchable database of thousands of drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Searchable by name, ingredient or type of glassware. Also includes information on setting up a home bar and the equipment needed, as well as information about curing hangovers and "sensible" drinking and party-hosting.

Wine Intro
http://wineintro.com/

An Internet guide for making and drinking wine, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered include festivals & tastings, winemaking, wine merchants, grapes, glassware, and wine clubs.

WineDefinitions.com
http://www.winedefinitions.com/

A community-based resource all about wine. Connoiseurs share information on the history and making of wine, a glossary of wine terms (along with a pronunciation guide), recipes, product reviews and more for the wine enthusiast.

Wines, Beers and Spirits of the Net
http://www.ryerson.ca/~dtudor/wine.htm

"This is an attempt to keep up with online resources devoted to wines, beers and spirits, largely from the Internet but also from commercial suppliers." In addition to Web sites, this page contains links to Usenet/Newsnet groups, electronic mailing lists, and FTP sites which deal with the production and appreciation of wine, beer, and spirits.