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An extremely fun and informative book.

Drink your way through the ages.

Meh... Where it was good, it was GREAT. Oddly (for me, 'cos I don't touch the stuff) the section on coffee was the most interesting.
Where it wasn't great, it ran to boring. Part of me wanted more, thinking it had to be more interesting than what I was reading. But after a while, part of me thought maybe it's just not, and more would be only more of the same.
If you're already interested in this book, go ahead & pick it up. You'll get through it; you will learn some interesting facts; and you may wind up loving it. If you're not interested, you can pass on this one - it won't be worth the work for you, & you won't miss much.

This book takes a look at six beverages that have dominated world cultures over time and how they still impact our society today. I read this as it’s an assigned summer reading book for a history course at the school where I’m a librarian, and I found it to be entertaining and informative.

It was interesting at some points but I can say from experience that this book initiates headaches and stress. If you decided to read this for fun then I am completely confused about that. If you like history sure read it; if you like a painful reading experience then this would also be perfect. With all due respect and love of course

The book is a trip through the ancient history to medieval ages and finally to modern times but never veering from the six drinks it talks about which were developed in this order: Beer, Wine, Spirits, Coffee, Tea and Cola. It is more about the history of these drinks rather than history of the world, but it does intersect major occurrences of note, some wars and plagues.
Very fittingly, it finally ends on water as a seventh drink and its rebirth again as the fastest growing beverage, though in the form of 'bottled water' and how evidence has shown that the wars of future will not be over territory, but over water.

It was fun learning about the histories of drinks.
3.5 stars

3 stars is a bit harsh but it did take 3 weeks to finish. I was super interested in half the book and just interested in the other half. Very good if you like history. I wish I could give half stars.

I didn't finish this book. We went to the library Sunday and I decided just to go ahead and return it.

In short:
Beer - Mesopotamia, liquid bread, drink of the people
Wine - Greeks, symposia, democracy
Spirits - Colonialism, Slave Trade, Revolution
Coffee - Age of reason, academic discourse, people aren't drunk all the time
Tea - British Empire
Coke - America

The key point i took away is that what every drink has in common is an alternative to water which could be contaminated. all these drinks involve boiling water before people realized that the boiling was the part that was important.

This should be History of Western civilization in 6 glasses. I Skimmed through Tea, and looked at Coke. It was at Tea that I completely lost interest. Coffee got a very brief chapter that started in Yemen but quickly went west. Then at the beginning of the Tea chapter, the author says China was an older, more advanced civilization than any other they came in contact with, talks briefly about the Japanese Tea Ceremony and then proceeds to talk about how the west set up the tea trade with china.

Enjoyed this! I love a look at world history with a fun framing device, and this was that! Learned a good bit, there are some interesting facts and anecdotes about human history and beverages, it’s just what I expected and not much more and that’s alright!

A more accurate title would have been “A History of these specific 6 beverages with some fun facts sprinkled in” because the drinks are only very lightly explained within the context of history and very specifically, the history of the West. It was interesting enough but nothing really ground breaking or unheard of. In the audiobook version, the narrator pronounces “ration” like “ray shun” which I didn’t really care for.

I really wanted to like this book, but instead found it to be a struggle to finish at times. It’s not that it’s a bad book or that it’s not interesting, I just found that it could have been much briefer and at times, especially the sections on tea and coffee. The concept here of following how beverages changed and influenced society is a valid one, it was especially interesting to hear about how coffee houses took over parts of Europe as central locations for the discussion of scientific and political ideas. I also found the early history of Coca-Cola and Pepsi to be fascinating as there was information within this work that I was not aware of. Overall, this is a well written history told in an interesting way, the author just rambles on a bit in a few spots and in others is far too brief.

I highly recommend this book - on the short side but packed with great bits of history, weaving a cohesive view of the history of six beverages that have formed a common link across human history for many. Fascinating stuff!