The basic drinks until the 17th century were water, beer, ale, wine, mead, milk, and rarely fruit juices (most were fermented). Tea and coffee did not exist until the end of the Middle Ages and neither did sparkling wines. Sweet and fruit wines were more common. http://members.tripod.com/med_food/drinks.html
Try mead sometime. It tastes really weird, but it’s definitely Elizabethan.
The basic drinks until the 17th century were water, beer, ale, wine, mead, milk, and rarely fruit juices (most were fermented). Tea and coffee did not exist until the end of the Middle Ages and neither did sparkling wines. Sweet and fruit wines were more common.
http://members.tripod.com/med_food/drinks.html
Only simple refreshments were served at teas and receptions; tea, coffee, bouillon, punch and lemonade, but no wine or alcoholic drinks.
http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/etiquette/atteas.htm
Cooking with Wine, Beer and other “Alcohol” in the 19th Century
http://www.victoriana.com/Wine/wine-1.html