Well Drinks: Tips for Your Time at the Bar

If you love drinking, and consuming alcohol is your idea of enjoyment, well drinks will be your saviour, if your pocket getting lighter is one of your worries. Well Drinks are the mixes served made from the cheaper liquor stocked at the bar. It is the alcohol that you get when you are not specific about a brand to the bartender, and it is pocket friendly also.

Origin of the Name:

In usual bars, the well drinks are stocked in a rack (or speed well) near the area where they keep the ice and the juices. Usually, the ‘well’ is just below the bar desk. The concept behind such a placement is the alcohol being in close range of the bartender, allowing him to serve the customer in minimal time and at his convenience. In other words, you can say that a bar tender’s first preference to serve you would be a well drink, given that the you don’t specify what brand you would like to have. Ordering a Vodka 7 would get you a well drink, which would be cheap vodka with lemon-lime soda. If you are more specific, say, Absolut Vodka 7, you just got yourself a call drink.

Some pointers to note:

Though having well drinks allows you to drink more and spend less, there are always responsibilities that you should demonstrate at the bar. The most important responsibility would obviously mean knowing your limits, and staying within them. You would not want to be blacked out for the night, just because you could afford it. Special care should be taken if you drove to the bar, either have a sober companion along, or make a take-away order at the bar. Also, keep a check on the kind of liquor you are consuming. Having large quantities of sweet alcohol will lead to you waking up to a bad hangover. Sweet liquor consumption also speeds up body dehydration.

Types of Well Drinks:

Though a well drink is just a cheaper version of cocktails, there are a few popular well drinks that are commonly available. These are Cape Cod, Greyhound, Mexican Bay Breeze, Paloma, Rum and Coke, Scotch and Soda, Salty Dog, Voska Sunrise, Vodka 7, Tequila Sunrise, Screwdriver etc. Again, it is worth mentioning that availability of a cocktail in the well drinks varies from bar to bar. A well drink at a bar might not be considered one at the other.