Goals and Objectives

To develop and understanding of the importance of the major beverage crops in the world economy, their cultural and social significance, history, production, processing, marketing and consumption.

• Learn how these crops developed historically and their place in today's world.
  
• Learn agricultural production methods for important beverage crops.
  
• Learn how to evaluate these beverages as the professionals do.
  
• Learn to recognize the plant and fruit or plant part used to prepare common beverages.
  
• Learn of how various plant-based beverages are prepared and how they are used in different cultures.
  
  

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• Introduction
  
• Fruit and vegetable juice discussion and tasting
  
• Cacao history and origin / guest lecture / processing
  
• Tea history and origin / tasting include herbals / guest lecture
  
• Kava's history and origin / growing, processing, tasting
  
• Coffee - history and origin / growing and processing / roasting and tasting
  
• Fermented fruit juices
  
• Fermented grains and distillation
  
  

Attendance	15%
Quiz (6)	60%
Final Exam	25%

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