Alcoholic beverage ( Food & Beverages )

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 

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  • What is alcoholic beverages? 

- An alcoholic beverage is simply any drinks that contains ethanol /ethyl/ alcohol.

- It is portable beverage which contains 0.55% to 96% of consumable alcohol.

- It can denoted as ABV(Alcohol by volume), V/V (volume by volume).

- Alcohol is a volatile mobile fluid obtained by fermenting a liquid containing sugar , the strength of which can be further increased by distillation.

• What we called the beverage contains less than 0.55% or more than 96% ABV?

- A non alcoholic beverages isn't actually the same as an alcohol free one.

As the name suggests non-alcoholic beverage are those containing no alcohol at all.

Beverage classified as alcohol free do contains a very small amount of alcohol but only at strength of 0.05% or less.

• What is ABV?

- ABV is an abbreviations for the term 'alcohol by volume' This is a reading that is used to help a person understand the alcohol or ethanol content in an alcoholic beverages.

- Alcohol by volume or ABV or volume by volume is a standard measures of how much alcohol is contained in an alcoholic beverage.

• Classification of alcoholic beverages :- 

     

  1. Fermented

   2. Fermented & distilled

    3. Fermented, distilled & flavoured                   4. Cocktail 

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• Classification of fermented beverage :- 

         1. Beer

          2. Wine

•Classification of Beer:- 

      1. Ale

       2. Lager

        3. Lambic

• Classification of wine @ characteristics or nature:- 

1. Still

 2. Sparkling 

  3. Fortified 

   4. Aromatized

    5. Organic 

     6. Biodynamic 

      7. Tonic

• Classification of wine @ colour :- 

 1. Red

  2. White

   3. Rose

• Classification of wine@ body:- 

 1. Light

  2. Medium 

   3. Heavy

•  Classification of wine @ degree of sweetness :- 

 1. Dry

  2. Medium dry

   3. Medium sweet 

    4. Sweet

• Classification of wine @ year:- 

   1. Vintage 

    2. Non vintage 

• Classification of wine @Naming:- 

  1. Varietal

   2. Generic 

• Classification of wine @ nature:- 

 1. Liquor 

   2. Bitters

• Classification of fermented & Distilled 

1. Whisky 

 2. Rum

  3. Gin

   4. Vodka

    5. Tequila 

     6. Brandy

      7. Other spirits 

● What is fermentation process? 

  Fermentation is the conversion of sugar by the interaction of yeasts into alcohol with co2 gas and heat as by product 

   

       Sugar+ yeast= alcohol + co2 + heat

● Distillation Process:- 

Distillation is the method of separating mixture based on difference in their volatility in a boiling liquid mixture. 

Distillation is a unit operations or a physical separation process and not a chemical reaction.