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About Wine Culture China is the worlds ancient civilization Zhuo, China is the hometown of wine, five thousand years long history of the Chinese nation, wine and wine culture has occupied an important place, wine is a special kind of food, are material, but when the wine has and into the peoples spiritual life into. Beer American beer, with very few exceptions, varies from the mediocre(普通的) to the terrible. There are not many types of beer in the US—light and dark are two terms commonly used. It is therefore normal to order beer simply by brand name. In a restaurant, in fact, it is quite all right to order a beer, and they will tell you what they have. It is not necessary, either, to specify quantity when ordering beer. If it comes in bottles or cans, you will get a bottle or can, and if its on tap(可以随时取用的) you will get a glass, unless you order a pitcher(有嘴和柄的大酒罐 i.e.a jug). Cocktails Cocktails and mixed drinks are much more popular and rather stronger in the USA than in Europe, and visitors may not be familiar with some of the terminology(术语). On the rocks, as you probably know, means with ice, while straight up or up means neat and without ice. There are hundreds of different cocktails, and there is no space here to list all the different names. Cocktails Whisky Whisky or whiskey is a type of alcoholic beverage distilled from fermented grain mash. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and maize (corn). Most whiskies are aged in wooden casks, made generally of oak), the exception being some corn liquors. Whisky is a strictly regulated spirit worldwide with many competing denominations of origin and many classes and types. The unifying characteristics of the different classes and types are the fermentation of grains, and the practice of distilling the spirit down to a maximum of 80% alcohol for corn and 90% alcohol for other grains, prior to adding water, so as to retain so