Provided are: a beverage which contains an increased amount of xanthohumols, in which an unfavorable sour after-taste specific to xanthohumol compounds including xhanthohumol and isoxanthohumol is suppressed； and a method for producing the beverage. This beverage contains one or more compounds selected from xanthohumols, and an iso-[alpha]-acid, wherein the total content of the one or more compounds selected from xanthohumols is 3 ppm by mass or greater, and the content of the iso-[alpha]-acid is 0.5-80 ppm by mass.本發明提供一種可抑制包含黃腐醇及異黃腐醇之黃腐醇類化合物所特有的餘味之不適口酸味，且可提高黃腐醇類的含量的飲料及其製造方法。根據本發明，可提供一種飲料及其製造方法，該飲料係含有選自黃腐醇類的一種以上之化合物與異α酸的飲料，其中前述選自黃腐醇類的一種以上之化合物的總含量為3質量ppm以上，異α酸的含量為0.5～80質量ppm。
