cocktail culture
Artisanal beverage scene
Cocktail culture encompasses the social practices, knowledge, and aesthetics surrounding mixed drinks—the craft of bartending, the rituals of drinking, and the spaces where people gather to do both.
It suggests appreciation for quality ingredients, technique, and presentation: The speakeasy revival brought cocktail culture back to the mainstream.
The term often implies a certain sophistication or connoisseurship, distinguishing serious mixology from ordinary bar service.
- bartenderOne who serves drinks
- bittersBotanical cocktail flavoring
- shakerVessel for mixing drinks
- jiggerSmall liquid measure
- happy hourDiscounted drinks period
speakeasy · garnish · mixology · craft cocktails · spirits · vodka · aperitif · muddler · Sazerac · whiskey sour · vermouth · rum · infusion · amaro · gin · swizzle · tequila · stirring
- Early 1900sroaring twenties, flapper, jazz, speakeasy, prohibition
- midcenturyEames chair, Danish modern, Scandinavian design, teak furniture, walnut furniture
- alcoholbeer, vodka, whiskey, whisky, rum
- drinkingbooze, liquor, guzzling, gulping, chugging
- golden agegolden age, paradise, Eden, utopia, Arcadia
- drink historybootleggers, moonshine, speakeasies, temperance movement, 18th Amendment
cocktail culturetemperance movement
Campaign against alcohol consumption
teetotalism · Prohibition · straight edge · abstinence · tea culture
cocktail culturebinge drinking
Rapid excessive alcohol consumption
blackout drinking · getting wasted · pregaming · power hour · drinking games