Drinking culture - Topics

Which six cocktails should every beginner learn first? What is the difference between having a drink and drinking to get drunk? What changed when non-alcoholic beer got good What licenses do you need to sell alcohol in most countries? Why do so many cultures clink glasses before drinking? Why does beer foam collapse faster in a glass with leftover grease? Which beverages should never be poured over ice? Absinthe and the myths built around one drink How do you make a Negroni and why is the ratio equal parts? Alcohol counts as food in some legal codes and as a drug in others How do you pace yourself when everyone around you keeps ordering another drink? Pub closing time shaped British social life Why do sommeliers decant a young wine but leave an old one alone? Why do European and Asian drinking cultures treat spirits so differently? After-work drinks and who actually gets invited The round system in British pubs and why it traps you Drinking games as a rite of passage on campus Wine at dinner and spirits at the bar follow different social scripts Sobriety as a social movement rather than a private choice Coffee shop culture and bar culture as competing third places The etiquette of buying a round for strangers Alcohol-free weddings and the guests who complain Sake pouring ritual and the way it marks social rank What does a city's tap water quality do to its beverage culture? Declining alcohol without making an issue of it Refusing a drink can be read as refusing friendship Toasting rules: who proposes and who must not drink Why toasts at a funeral sound nothing like toasts at a wedding What is the etiquette for buying a round of drinks? Drinking alone and the stigma that surrounds it The aperitif before a meal sets up appetite and talk Coffee grounds and tea leaves read as fortune telling