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Implies that an item is out of stock or that someone needs to be ejected from the bar.
-Wikipedia
Alcohol By Volume
Alcohol By Volume, or ABV, is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage.
-Wikipedia
Apéritif
An alcoholic drink consumed to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
-Dictionary
Body
Body refers to the weight or thickness, or strength or intensity, of how a substance feels in the mouth. Typically it is in reference to beer, wine, coffee, or cigars. Body can be described as being light-bodied, medium-bodied, or full-bodied with light-bodied being delicate or thin, full-bodied being mouth-filling and rich, and medium-bodied lying somewhere in between.
-BeerTutor
Bottled in Bond
Bottled in Bond, or Bonded, is a label for an American-made distilled beverage that has been aged and bottled according to a set of legal regulations.
-Wikipedia
Chaser
A drink of a milder beverage taken after a drink of liquor.
-Dictionary
Cooler
A cold drink, usually carbonated, fruit-flavored, and containing wine or other alcoholic indgredients. Also called wine cooler.
-The Free Dictionary
Cordial
In parts of the United States and Canada, liqueurs may also be called cordials or schnapps, while in parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, cordial means a concentrated non-alcoholic fruit syrup that is diluted to taste and consumed as a non-carbonated soft drink.
-Wikipedia
Dash / Splash
A small amount of a liquid added to a drink. A dash is about a bottle cap full or less, while a splash depends more on personal preference.
-The Ice Co
Double
A drink that is served with twice as much alcohol as a regular single serving.
-EF EnglishLive
Digestif
A drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a ameal to aid the digestion.
-Dictionary
Dry
Refers to having little to no vermouth added to a cocktail like the classic martini or a manhattan.
-Business Insider
Float
A small amount of liquor layered on top of a drink.
-Wikipedia
IBU
IBU is an abbreviation for the International Bitterness Units scale, a gauge of beer's bitterness and it ranges from zero to over 100. What IBUs measure are the parts per million of isohumulone found in a beer. Isohumulone is the acid found in hops that gives beer its bitter bite.
-The Beer Connoisseur
Mocktail / Virgin
A non-alcoholic drink consisting of a mixture of fruit juices or other soft drinks
-Oxford Dictionary
Neat
A single unmixed liquor served without ice and at room temperature.
-Wikipedia
On The Rocks
A drink served on ice.
-Collins Dictionary
Perfect
Refers to having equal parts of dry and sweet vermouth added to a cocktail like the classic martini or a manhattan.
-Business Insider
SRM
The Standard Reference Method, or SRM, is the color system used by brewers to specify finished beer and malt color. A very pale beer would have an SRM of around 5 whereas a dark stout would have an SRM of around 25-40.
-Oxford Dictionary
Up
A chilled drink served without ice in a martini glass.
-Wikipedia
Wet
Refers to having more vermouth added to a cocktail like the classic martini or a manhattan.
-Business Insider