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Drink mixers are the non-alcoholic ingredients in mixed drink
Mixed drink

A mixed drink is a type of Drink in which two or more ingredients are mixed.Some broad categories of mixed drinks are:* Cobbler ? A beverage made with wine or sherry, citrus juice, and sugar...
s and cocktail
Cocktail

A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. Originally a mixture of Distilled beverage, sugar, water, and bitters, the word has gradually come to mean almost any mixed drink containing alcoholic beverage....
s. There are many reasons mixers are used. They change or enhance flavors or add new ones to a drink. Mixers dilute the drink, lowering the alcohol by volume
Alcohol by volume

File:Absinthe ABV.jpgAlcohol by volume is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in an alcoholic beverage . The abv standard is used worldwide....
 in the drink. They may make the drink sweeter, more sour, or more savory. Some mixers change the texture or consistency of the drink, making it thicker or more watery. Drink mixers may also be used strictly for decorative purposes by changing the color or appearance of the drink.

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Caffeine

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a psychoactive stimulant drug and a mild diuretic. Caffeine was discovered by a German chemist, Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, in 1819....
 helps counteract some of the depressant
Depressant

Depressant is a chemical agent that diminishes the function or activity of a specific part of the body.The term is used in particular with regard to the central nervous system ....
 effects of the alcohol
Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
.

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Carbonation

Carbonation occurs when carbon dioxide is solvation in water or an aqueous solution. This process yields the "fizz" to carbonated water and sparkling mineral water, the Beer head to beer, and the cork pop and bubbles to Champagne and sparkling wine....
 adds a festive flair to drinks, and it also increases the absorption of the alcohol into the blood stream, potentially resulting in faster intoxication
Intoxication

Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more Psychoactive drug. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the overconsumption of normally harmless substances....
.

products add a smoothing effect to the feel of the drink to counteract the burn of the alcohol.






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Drink mixers are the non-alcoholic ingredients in mixed drink
Mixed drink

A mixed drink is a type of Drink in which two or more ingredients are mixed.Some broad categories of mixed drinks are:* Cobbler ? A beverage made with wine or sherry, citrus juice, and sugar...
s and cocktail
Cocktail

A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. Originally a mixture of Distilled beverage, sugar, water, and bitters, the word has gradually come to mean almost any mixed drink containing alcoholic beverage....
s. There are many reasons mixers are used. They change or enhance flavors or add new ones to a drink. Mixers dilute the drink, lowering the alcohol by volume
Alcohol by volume

File:Absinthe ABV.jpgAlcohol by volume is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in an alcoholic beverage . The abv standard is used worldwide....
 in the drink. They may make the drink sweeter, more sour, or more savory. Some mixers change the texture or consistency of the drink, making it thicker or more watery. Drink mixers may also be used strictly for decorative purposes by changing the color or appearance of the drink.

Caffeinated beverages

Caffeine
Caffeine

Caffeine is a bitter, white crystalline xanthine alkaloid that acts as a psychoactive stimulant drug and a mild diuretic. Caffeine was discovered by a German chemist, Friedrich Ferdinand Runge, in 1819....
 helps counteract some of the depressant
Depressant

Depressant is a chemical agent that diminishes the function or activity of a specific part of the body.The term is used in particular with regard to the central nervous system ....
 effects of the alcohol
Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
.
  • Coffee
    Coffee

    Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
  • Energy drink
    Energy drink

    File:Energy drinks.jpgFile:Reloadice adjusted.jpgEnergy drinks are soft drinks advertised as providing Energy to improve physical activity of the drinker, as compared to a typical drink....
    s     - Red Bull
    Red Bull

    Red Bull is an energy drink that is sold by Red Bull GmbH. In 2006, more than 3 1000000000 cans were sold in over 130 countries.Red Bull was inspired by Krating Daeng, an energy drink produced in Thailand that had been used for years by long-distance truckers, kick-boxers, students and others who wanted a boost....
    , etc.
  • Iced tea
    Iced tea

    Iced tea, also known as ice tea, is a form of cold tea, often served in a glass over ice cubes. It may or may not be sweetened. Iced tea is also a popular packaged drink....
    , Sweetened     - Lipton BRISK
    Lipton

    Lipton is one of the world's best-known and best-selling brands of both hot leaf and ready-to-drink tea. It is currently owned by Unilever....
    , Nestea
    Nestea

    Nestea is a brand of iced tea manufactured by Nestle and distributed by Nestle company's beverage department in the United States and byBeverage Partners Worldwide ,, a joint venture between The Coca-Cola Company and Nestle, in the rest of the world....
    , etc.


Carbonated mixers and sodas

Carbonation
Carbonation

Carbonation occurs when carbon dioxide is solvation in water or an aqueous solution. This process yields the "fizz" to carbonated water and sparkling mineral water, the Beer head to beer, and the cork pop and bubbles to Champagne and sparkling wine....
 adds a festive flair to drinks, and it also increases the absorption of the alcohol into the blood stream, potentially resulting in faster intoxication
Intoxication

Intoxication is the state of being affected by one or more Psychoactive drug. It can also refer to the effects caused by the ingestion of poison or by the overconsumption of normally harmless substances....
.
  • Carbonated water
    Carbonated water

    Carbonated water, also known as sparkling water, fizzy water and seltzer, is plain water into which carbon dioxide gas has been dissolved, and is the major and defining component of most soft drinks....
     (also called soda water, seltzer water, or sparkling water)
  • Cola
    Cola

    Cola is a beverage usually with caramel coloring and containing caffeine.Originally invented by the druggist John Pemberton, it has become popular worldwide....
     - Coca-Cola
    Coca-Cola

    Coca-Cola is a carbonation soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines worldwide . It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke or as Cola or Pop....
    , Pepsi
    Pepsi

    Pepsi is a Carbonation that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in retail stores, restaurants, cinemas and from vending machines....
    , etc.
  • Ginger ale
    Ginger ale

    Ginger ale is a Carbonation soft drink flavored with ginger....
  • Lemon-lime soda - 7-UP
    7 Up

    7 Up is a brand of a lemon-lime flavored non-caffeinated soft drink. The rights to the brand are held by Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United States, and PepsiCo in the rest of the world....
    , Sprite
    Sprite (soft drink)

    Sprite is a transparent, lemon-lime flavored, caffeine free soft drink, produced by the Coca-Cola Company. It was introduced to the United States in 1961....
    , etc.
  • Tonic water
    Tonic water

    Tonic water is a Carbonation soft drink flavoured with quinine, which gives it a distinctively bitter taste.The drink has garnered its name from the medicinal effects of this Bitter #Bitterness flavouring....


Dairy products

Milk products add a smoothing effect to the feel of the drink to counteract the burn of the alcohol. They also turn the drinks opaque
Opacity (optics)

Opacity is the measure of impenetrability to electromagnetic radiation or other kinds of radiation, especially visible light. In radiative transfer, it describes the absorption and scattering of radiation in a medium, such as a plasma, dielectric, radiation shield, glass, etc....
, usually enhancing and lightening the color of the drink.
  • Cream
    Cream

    Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization. In un-homogenized milk, over time, the lighter fat rises to the top....
  • Half and half
    Half and half

    Half and half refers to various beverages or liquid foods made of an equal-parts mixture of two substances, including dairy products, alcoholic beverages, and soft drinks....
  • Ice cream
    Ice cream

    Ice cream or ice-cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, combined with fruits or other ingredients....
  • Milk
    Milk

    Milk is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals . It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborn mammals before they are able to digestion other types of food....


Juices

Oranges and Orange Juice
Juices are flavorful additions. Some add sweetness, others add a sour tang, and some add a sweet-tart sensation. Fruit juices are common additions to rum-based cocktails.
  • Apple cider
    Apple cider

    Apple cider is the name used in the United States and parts of Canada for an unfiltered, unsweetened, non-alcoholic beverage produced from apples....
     (not to be confused with cider
    Cider

    Cider is an alcoholic beverage usually made from the fermentation juice of apples, although pears are also used.While any variety of apple may be used, certain cultivars are preferred in some regions, and these may be known as cider apples....
    , known as hard cider in the U.S.
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    )
  • Coconut milk
    Coconut

    The Coconut Palm is a member of the Family Arecaceae . It is the only species in the genus Cocos, and is a large palm, growing to 30 m tall, with pinnate leaf 4-6 m long, pinnae 60-90 cm long; old leaves break away cleanly leaving the trunk smooth....
  • Cranberry juice
    Cranberry

    Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the genus Vaccinium subgenus Oxycoccos, or in some treatments, in the distinct genus Oxycoccos....
  • Grape juice
    Grape juice

    Grape juice is a juice obtained from crushing grapes. The juice is often fermentation and made into wine, brandy, or vinegar. In the wine industry grape juice which contains 7-23 percent of pulp, skins, stems and seeds, is often referred to as "must"....
  • Grapefruit juice
    Grapefruit juice

    Grapefruit juice is the fruit juice from grapefruits. It is rich with Vitamin C and ranges from sweet-tart to very sour. Variations include white grapefruit, pink grapefruit and ruby red grapefruit juice....
  • Lemon juice
    Lemon

    The lemon is the common name for Citrus limon. The reproductive tissue surrounds the seed of the angiosperm lemon tree. The lemon is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world....
  • Lemonade
    Lemonade

    File:Homemade Lemonade.jpgLemonade is a lemon-flavored soft drink. As the name suggests, lemonade is made from lemons. It is an ade. When combined with sugar, it gives a pleasant mixture of sour and sweet to produce a flavor very agreeable to the taste buds....
  • Lime juice
    Lime (fruit)

    Lime is a term referring to a number of different fruits , both species and Hybrid , which are typically round, green to yellow in color, 3?6 cm in diameter, generally containing sour pulp, and frequently associated with the lemon....
    , unsweetened
  • Limeade
    Limeade

    Limeade is a beverage similar to lemonade, but is made with lime juice or lime flavor instead of those of the lemon. A.G. Barr plc, of Glasgow produce a limeade which is somewhat popular in Scotland, and Newman's Own introduced its own brand of limeade in 2004....
  • Olive juice
    Olive

    The Olive is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Lebanon, Syria and the maritime parts of Turkey and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea....
  • Orange juice
    Orange juice

    Orange juice is a popular beverage. It is a source of vitamin C , potassium, folic acid . Citrus juices also contain flavonoids that are believed to have beneficial health effects....
  • Pineapple juice
    Pineapple

    Pineapple is the common name for an edible tropical plant and also its fruit. It is native to the southern part of Brazil, and Paraguay. This herbaceous plant perennial plant grows to tall with 30 or more trough-shaped and pointed leaves long, surrounding a thick plant stem....
  • Tomato juice
    Tomato

    The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins Nicotiana, potatoes, aubergine , chilli peppers, and the poisonous Atropa belladonna....
     - plain or flavored (V-8
    V8 (beverage)

    V8 Vegetable Juice is a trademark name for beverage products sold worldwide and made from either eight vegetables or a mixture of both fruits and vegetables....
    , Clamato
    Clamato

    Clamato is a trademark of the Mott's company which denotes a drink made primarily of reconstituted tomato juice concentrate and reconstituted dried clam broth, with a dash of high fructose corn syrup, Allura Red AC to maintain a 'natural' tomato colour, and Monosodium glutamate....
    , etc.)
  • Wheatgrass juice
    Wheatgrass

    Wheatgrass refers to the young grass of the common wheat plant, Triticum aestivum, that is freshly juiced or dried into powder for animal and human consumption....




Prepared mixes

Some suppliers now manufacture pre-made mixes, which contain all the ingredients for a particular drink pre-mixed. The only thing that needs to be added is alcohol.
  • Margarita
    Margarita

    The Margarita is the most common tequila-based cocktail, made with tequila mixed with triple sec and lime or lemon juice, often served with salt on the glass rim....
     mix     - José Cuervo
    Jose Cuervo

    Jos? Cuervo is a brand of tequila produced by Tequila Cuervo La Roje?a, S.A. de C.V. The Jos? Cuervo Especial brand has the highest sales of any tequila brand in the world....
     Margarita mix, etc.
  • Mudslide mix - T.G.I. Friday's
    T.G.I. Friday's

    T.G.I. Friday's is an United States List of restaurant chains focusing on casual dining, with over 800 restaurants in over 50 countries. The company is a unit of the Carlson Companies....
     Frozen Mudslide mix, etc.
  • Strawberry Daiquiri
    Daiquiri

    Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, lime juice, and sugar or other sweetener. There are several versions, but those that gained international fame are the ones made in the El Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba....
     mix     - Urban Thirst's Strawberry Daiquiri Slush Mix


Sauces

The addition of a sauce usually imparts a surprising new taste to a familiar drink. Hot sauces are commonly used in drinking game
Drinking game

Drinking games are games which involve the drinking of alcoholic beverages....
s.
  • Honey
    Honey

    Honey is a sweet fluid produced by honey bees , and derived from the nectar of flowers. According to the United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance?this includes, but is not limited to, water or other sweeteners...
  • Hot sauce
    Hot sauce

    Hot sauce, chili sauce, or pepper sauce refer to any spicy sauce made from chili peppers and other ingredients. There are many varieties around the world....
     - Tabasco sauce
    Tabasco sauce

    Tabasco sauce is a brand of hot sauce made from tabasco peppers , vinegar, and salt, and aged in white oak barrels for three years. It has a hot, spicy flavor and is popular in many parts of the world....
    , etc.
  • Worcestershire sauce
    Worcestershire sauce

    Worcestershire sauce is a fermentation liquid condiment first made at 68 Broad Street, Worcester by two dispensing chemists, John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins....


Syrups

The key ingredient in a syrup is sugar
Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
, which sweetens any drink into which it is mixed. Other flavors are often added to a sugar syrup.
  • Grenadine
    Grenadine

    Grenadine is traditionally a red syrup. It is used as an ingredient in cocktails, both for its flavor and to give a pink tinge to mixed drinks....
  • Lime juice, sweetened - Rose's lime juice
    Rose's lime juice

    Rose's lime juice, often known simply as "Rose's", is a brand of sweetened Lime juice used in mixed drinks, most notably the Gimlet . It is made by the British company L....
  • Simple syrup
  • Sour mix
    Sour mix

    Sour mix is a mixer used in many cocktails. It is made from approximately equal parts lemon and/or lime juice and simple syrup and shaken vigorously with ice....
  • Orgeat


Other mixers

Many other food and beverage items can be used in mixed drinks. These are some other common ones.
  • Egg
    Egg (food)

    An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals, consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo and its nutrient reserves....
     - egg white
    Egg white

    File:Chicken egg01 monovular.jpgEgg white is the common name for the clear liquid contained within an Egg . It is the cytoplasm of the egg, which until fertilization is a single Cell ....
    s thicken and increase the foaminess
    Foam

    The most general definition of foam is a substance that is formed by trapping many gas bubbles in a liquid or solid. It can also refer to anything that is analogous to such a phenomenon, such as quantum foam....
     of blended
    Blender (device)

    A blender, or liquidiser in British English, is a kitchen appliance used to mix ingredients or puree food. The term typically refers to a stationary, upright electrical device, which is to be distinguished from a hand-powered or electric mixer that may be used for similar purposes....
     drinks.
  • Food coloring
    Food coloring

    A food coloring is any substance that is added to food or drink to change its color. Food coloring is used both in commercial food production and in domestic cooking....
  • Sports drink
    Sports drink

    A sports drink is a beverage designed to help Sportsperson rehydrate, as well as replenish electrolytes, carbohydrates, and other nutrients, which can be depleted after training or competition....
     - Gatorade
    Gatorade

    Gatorade is a brand of flavored non-carbonation sports drinks manufactured by the Quaker Oats Company, now a division of PepsiCo. Intended for consumption during physically active occasions, Gatorade beverages are formulated to rehydrate and replenish fluid, carbohydrates and electrolytes....
    , SunnyD
    SunnyD

    Sunny Delight is a popular orange -flavored drink, manufactured until recently by Procter & Gamble. It produced an estimated $450 million in revenue for Procter & Gamble in 2004, and now comes in several different flavors....
    , etc.


While most consider Bitters
Bitters

A bitters is an alcoholic beverage prepared with herbs and citrus dissolved in alcohol or glycerine and having a Taste#Bitterness or bittersweet flavor....
 as a type of mixer, it is alcoholic, and depend on the type of bitters may even be a main contributor to the alcohol content.

See also

  • List of cocktails
    List of cocktails

    A cocktail is a mixed drink typically made with a distilled beverage that is mixed with other ingredients. If beer is one of the ingredients, the drink is called a beer cocktail....
  • Mixed drink shooters and drink shots
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