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About.Com: Cocktails

http://cocktails.about.com/

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

Author: Kathy Hamlin (cocktails.guide@about.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: alcoholic beverages

About.com: Coffee/Tea

http://coffeetea.about.com/

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

Author: Melanie Uy (coffeetea.guide@about.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: coffee; tea

About.com: Wine

http://wine.about.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.

Author: Lisa Shea (wine.guide@about.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: wine

Beer & Brewing - breWorld

http://www.breworld.com/

"breWorld is Europe's largest Internet site dedicated to the brewing industry. You will find breWorld an invaluable source of news, information, and entertainment regarding the brewing industry." This site includes news from the beer world, features about various breweries and varieties of beer., ingredients and instructions for making beer, and publications about the brewing. There is also a list of ten beer writer's top ten beers so you can impress your friends with your sophisticated palate.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Beer

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.

Author: National Geographic Society (webmaster@ngs.org)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Frequently Asked Questions About Coffee and Caffeine

http://aomt.netmegs.com/

"Dedicated to all beverages and products that contain caffeine; including tea, coffee, chocolate, mate, caffeinated soft drinks, caffeinated pills, coffee beans, etc." Includes sections on chemistry, brewing, storage, health, and recipes.

Author: Daniel Owen (caffeine@aomt.netmegs.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Health & Medical Sciences--Nutrition & Diet--Caffeine

Keywords: Coffee; Chemistry; Brewing; Recipes; FAQ

Epicurious Food: for people who eat

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 Apetit magazines.

Author: (editor in chief) Gail blickman Horwood (ghorwood@epicurious.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: food; drink; recipes; entertaining; cookbooks; restaurants; Gourmet; Bon Apetite

JavaLink: Ye Olde Internet Cafe & Coffee Resource Page

http://thunder.ocis.temple.edu/~ghinkle/java.html

Alphabetical directory to coffee-related Internet sites with brief annotations.

Author: Jerry Hinkle (ghinkle@thunder.temple.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Coffee

Learn2 Hold a Wine Tasting

http://www.Learn2.com/06/0691/0691.html

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

Author: Panmedia (info@learn2.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Wine; Wine Tasting; How-To

The Meadery

http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_shapiro/index.html

"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.

Author: M. Shapiro (m_shapiro@bigfoot.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Mead; Wine; Cider; Beer; Brewing; Middle Ages

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.

Author: Greg Lindahl (lindahl@pbm.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Arts & Humanities--History--Europe--Middle Ages (Medieval)

Arts & Humanities--History--Europe--Renaissance

Keywords: Medieval; Renaissace; Brewing

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.

Author: GravityOne LLC

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: alcohol; mixed drinks

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.

Author: Patrick E. McGovern, Donald Glusker, Lawrence Exner (websiters@www.museum.upenn.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

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.

Author: Real Beer, Inc (realbeer@realbeer.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Entertainment & Leisure--Hobbies

Keywords: beer brewing; brewpubs

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.

Author: Robin Garr (rgarr@iglou.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Wine

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.

Author: John Gauntner (sakeguy@gol.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Regional & Country Information--Asia--Japan

Keywords: Japanese; Pub; Wine; Drinks

The Samuel Adams Beer Term Dictionary

http://www.samadams.com/glossary/gloss.htm

Glossary of terms related to beer and brewing. Browsable alphabetically.

Author: The Boston Beer Company (webmaster@samadams.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Beer; Dictionary

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.

Author: Spencer W. Thomas (spencer.w.thomas@umich.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Beer; Brewing; Recipes; FAQ

The Uneducated Palate

http://www.enjoywine.com/

A guide to wine for ordinary people. The authors describe the wines they review and rate every weekday as mostly "in the under $15 range." Their wines are usually "American wines, though occasionally [they] branch out into Australia and others. The same stuff you can get at the grocery or local wine store." You can see current or past reviews on the site or look through the glossary of wine terms.

Author:

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: wine

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.

Author: Pal Loberg (pallo@webtender.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: beverage; alcoholic; drinks

Wines, Beers and Spirits of the Net

http://www.eye.net/Food-drink/Drinks/tudor.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.

Author: Dean Tudor (dtudor@acs.ryerson.ca)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Wine; Beer; Spirits

A World of Tea

http://www.stashtea.com/

Site featuring Tea Facts (history and FAQ), Tea News, Tea Fun (quotes, recipes, related links), and Product Information. All you ever wanted to know about tea and much more.

Author: The Stash Tea Company (dave@stash.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Tea

Zymurgy du Smurman

http://www.best.com/~smurman/zymurgy/

This site contains a list of brewing acronyms, a brief brewing dictionary, scripts for performing brewing calculations, a list of stopper sizes, and more.

Author: Scott Murman (smurman@best.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Food--Drink

Keywords: Beer; Brewing; Acronyms

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