drinking ritual
Formalized group sipping
A drinking ritual is a ceremonial or customary practice surrounding the consumption of alcohol.
These range from formal traditions—toasts at weddings, the clinking of glasses, buying rounds at pubs—to informal rules among friends: The birthday person never pays for their own drinks.
Some drinking rituals mark social bonding, others establish hierarchy or test endurance.
Religious ceremonies may incorporate wine or other alcohol as sacrament.
- toastHeated bread; glass-raising honor
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- wine ceremonyRitual involving fermented grapes
- libationCeremonial drink offering
- chaliceOrnate ritual drinking vessel
goblet · sipping · communion · cheers · bottoms up · pouring · sacred · wine · altar · blessing · offering · blood oath · mead · tankard · brew · spirits · celebration · bonding
drinking ritualabstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
teetotalism · sobriety · temperance · prohibition · fasting
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