Beverage and Tobacco

            Literal meaning of beverage is 'Drink'. Drinkable and potable liqyid is called beverage. in catering industry we serve different types of beverage. For the servicing purpose we categorize them into alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage Non alcoholic drinks are bottled water, Coca-cola, pepsi, etc. Non alcoholic drinks may be further categorized as hot and cold. Hot drinks are tea, coffee, hot chocolate,etc. and cold drinks are squashes, juices, etc. Alcoholic drihnks incoude beer, whisky , brandy, rum, etc. Soft drinds are classified as aerated and non -aerated drinks . Aerated drinks are the drinks, which are treated and added with air such as soda water, coa-cola.
                       Alcohol is volatile ,odorless liquid obtained through the fermentation of sugar containihng mash . The principal alcohol found in all alcoholic beverage is ethyl alcohol. Apotable liquid containing 2-75% ethyl alcohol by volume is known as alcoholic beverage some medicines may contain more than 2% alcohol but ae not alcoholic beverage.
                                 Non Alcoholic Beverage
                                       Hot Bevrage: Hot drinks are the most commonly used beverages. It includes tea, coffee, chocolate and malt. Different brand names are used for malt such as Horlicks , Boost, etc.
                               1.  Coffee: There is evidence to suggest that coffee cultivation started about  1000 years ago in Yemen, but the first commercial cultivation is thought to have been in the  fifteen century .Coffees produced from the beans of the coffee tree, which is grown and exported by different countries including Brazil, Columbia, Ivory Coast, Indonesia. it is grown in many parts of Nepal,which  is popular as Himalayan coffee in the international market.