Just finished reading this book. It’s by Tom Standage, Business Editor at The Economist. He traces the (surprisingly profound) impact six beverages have had on world history. The beverages are beer, wine, distilled spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola.

Recommended if you ever wanted to know how beer became the impetus for human civilization, how coffee prompted the Enlightenment, or why drinking rum helped Britain become the world’s dominant naval power.

Easy, interesting read.