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How to store beverages?

If there is a habit of storing various beverages for future use, long before using them, or if beverages are prepared at home, then certain conditions are required to preserve their quality taste. How to store various types of beverages at home?

Purchased alcoholic beverages are always well packaged, and the purpose of storing them at home is only to maintain the ambient temperature, storage light conditions and, most importantly, the position of the container on the shelves. The most correct way to store ready-made and sealed alcoholic beverages is to store the bottles horizontally, in a dark, cool place. Alcohol is usually stored at a temperature of 41-54 degrees Fahrenheit (5-12 degrees Celsius). The horizontal position of the bottle during storage is required by the condition of constant wetting of the corks (of course, if they are made of natural material). Plastic and aluminum corks do not require a horizontal position of the bottle.

Bottles with carbonated beverages (sparkling mineral water, sparkling lemonade, regular sparkling water) are recommended to be stored horizontally at a temperature of 36-54 degrees Fahrenheit (2-12 degrees Celsius). If the bottle is no longer full, the alcoholic drink is poured into a smaller bottle and hermetically sealed. If the drinks are prepared at home and poured into other types of containers (glass jars, enamel or ceramic containers, small kegs), the lids of hermetically sealed containers are additionally sealed with sealing wax or filled with paraffin (wax).

Honey beverages require storage in a dark place, cool conditions and hermetically sealed.

Juices are preserved in the usual way (pasteurized) and rolled up with hermetic lids with a rubber gasket or screw-on hermetic lids. Homemade juices are stored in a cool place away from light. If juices are purchased in Tetra Pak packaging, they can be stored in a cool dark place (not necessarily in the refrigerator) at room temperature according to the expiration dates indicated on the packaging.

Dry tea requires hermetically sealed packaging or cellophane packaging. This condition must be observed, since dried tea leaves (or flowers) absorb moisture very quickly. But tea beverages must be stored for a short time in a hermetically sealed container made of dark glass in a cool place at a temperature of 43-46 degrees Fahrenheit (6-8 degrees Celsius). Tea can be stored in tightly closed wooden or cardboard boxes with ground-in lids, as well as in tin boxes.

Coffee beans quickly absorb moisture, and the coffee loses its original qualities and can also become moldy. For this reason, coffee beans are stored only in glass or ceramic jars with hermetic or ground-in lids. Coffee bought in cardboard boxes without internal metallized finishing is best poured into glass or ceramic hermetic containers. This will extend the storage conditions of coffee beans for many months.

Many prepared beverages, such as cocktails, brewed coffee and similar beverages, do not have a shelf life and are consumed immediately after preparation.