Beverages Posters, Art Prints & Charts
illustrations of water, juices, wine, milk, teas and coffee for classrooms, kitchens, and restaurants.

Beverages are drinks that are prepared for human ingestion.

Water, the most abundant substance on Earth, and a universal solvent, is essential for health and survival and the primary ingredient in beverages. Water appears in oceans, polar ice caps, clouds and precipitation like rain and snow, freshwater aquifers, and rivers. In the words of Loren Eiseley “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”

‘Potable’ is the term to describe water fit for human consumption, and the shrinking supply of potable water due to increased populations and environmental contaminates is cause for great concern for the citizens of the Earth.

Juice, the fluid from plants, can be preserved by fermentation, most notably fruits, wine (grapes), and cider (apples).

The word “brew”, sometimes referring to any chemical mixing process, is the steeping (soaking) in water, of a leaf, stem, or seed grain, with the application of heat. Tea and coffee are brewed, so is beer. The term for processing grapes and apples to wine and cider is “vinting”.

• "Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read." ~ Sir Francis Bacon
• “I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.” ~ James Boswell
• “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” ~ M. F. K. Fisher
• “We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
• “Water is the only drink for a wise man.” ~ Henry David Thoreau