“Six beverages in particular – beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola – chart the flow of world history. Three contain alcohol, and three contain caffeine, but what they all have in common is that each one was the defining drink during a pivotal historical period, from antiquity to the present day.”

“Six beverages in particular – beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola – chart the flow of world history. Three contain alcohol, and three contain caffeine, but what they all have in common is that each one was the defining drink during a pivotal historical period, from antiquity to the present day.”

— Tom Standage