Téma: Beverages
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): vojta
Beverage
- Definition
- Water
- Alcoholic/soft drinks
- Non-alcoholic drinks
- Hot drinks (tea, coffee, others)
Beverage is a liquid prepared for human consumption, it is a part of human society/culture.
- Water is not included into the group of beverages
- It plays important role by healthy diet.
- Diferent kind of water, which are offered in restaurants (catering establishment).
Types:
- Still water – neperlivá
- Gentle-carbonated water – jemně perlivá
- Sparkling water – perlivá
- Tap water – kohoutková ->there is task: serve it or not?
Alcoholic drinks
- They content alcohol.
- During the production are important two walls: fermentation by beer and wine and distillation by spirits, which content more alcohol
- Wine and beer are produced by fermentation, spirits are produced by distillation.
Beer:
- Ingredients used by brew: Water, Hops – chmel, Yeast – kvasinky, Barley – ječmen, Malt – slad
- It is brewed in breweries.
- Beer is the most drunk alcoholic drink in the Czech Republic.
- Beer can be brewed from different ingredients and with different flavours.
- Types of beer:Lager – ležák 11°, Ale – světlé 10°, Dark – tmavé
- How is beer served? It can be: draught/draft – točené, Bottled – lahvové, Canned– plechovkové
- Hops is grown in Žatec region.
Wine
- Types:
- Red
- White
- Rose
- Champagne
- Wine is grown in vineyards.
- How to serve it?
- White wine are usually served with white meat (poultry, fish)
- It should be cold about 8°C
- Red wines are usually served with beef and steak
- Its temperature should be circa 14°C.
- White wine are usually served with white meat (poultry, fish)
Spirits
- It is distilled
- It has high content of alcohol.
Soft drinks
- They content no or little alcohol.
- Kinds:
- Juices (strawberry, orange, apple, blackcurrant, pine-apple, tomato)
- Fresh juices content a lot of vitamins. Vitamins are important for our health.
- Lemonades (flavoured water) –contents a lot of sugar
- Sparkling water (soda)
- Low-alcoholic beer
- Apple cider
- Syrup with water
- Ice tea
- Juices (strawberry, orange, apple, blackcurrant, pine-apple, tomato)
Hot drinks
- It is kind of beverage that is served heated.
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- Coffee-based drinks
- Tea
- Others
- Hot juice
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- Hot chocolate (cocoa)
- „grog“ – it is hit water with rum and lemon
Coffee
- Kinds of coffee-based drink:
- Cappuccino, latte, espresso, lungo, flavoured, Irish, Canadian
Tea
- Fruit (blend of fruit), Herbal (mint, ginger, rosehip, lime blossom), Black/green/white
Sweated drinks
- High content of sugar
- Harm full
- It causes obesity
- It has bad impact to our health
Drinking regime (Amount of liquids)
- It is said that we should drink about 2 litters per day.
- To prevent kidney discourses
- The amount depending into /according to season/physical activity
Cocktails
- Mixtures of alcoholic or non-alcoholic liquids
- They are served in summer – they are refreshing
- My favourite cocktails are:
- Pina colada (Malibu rum – with coconut flavour, pine-apple juice, cream)
- Mojito (mint, lime, white rum, cane sugar, soda)
- Cuba libre (rum, cola, lime)
