Dry January is ending and we’re all well and truly getting back into the socially acceptable alcoholic student lifestyle in an attempt to forget the past few torturous weeks of exam season. As we’re all trying to look good (and maybe even pull) on a night out it’s worth a thought, what does your drink say about you? Lucky for you, The Tab’s drinks gurus have you covered so you’ll never give off the wrong impression again!

Cocktails

You’re here to get drunk but hate the taste of drink. You fancy yourself a classy student or you’re quite reserved but you want to show your friends you can let loose occasionally.

Cocktails: you may look like a twat but at least you’ll be happy

Spirits (especially vodka) with mixers 

You hate the taste of drink or don’t know what to order, so you ask for the same thing you did with your happy meal when you were 5 but add vodka because you’re a grown up now… Sort of.

The vodka and redbull crew are the kind of people who kick the back of your seat in lectures repeatedly because they’re bored. People  who haven’t quite figured out the art of classy drinking yet but are good at getting drunk. The ‘mad’ lad or lady who fell asleep in the bushes outside Elms Village last night, but is still going out tonight of course.

Depending on how your last night out went this photo will make you feel thirsty or hungover

Bottled Beers

You’re either a very independent woman or the kind of guy who’s “just there for the craic”

Both are the kind of students everyone is friends with. You’re thinking about the practicalities of dancing with a bottle and saving every ounce of that precious drink, knowing what’s in that bottle will get you tipsy on a budget

Draught Beer

You’re someone who saw the beer offer and took it with both arms wide open.  Or maybe you’re not the biggest fan of the taste of alcohol, but you want to fit in with your mates… So you pick the lightest, sweetest thing on draught so you’re still holding that ‘manly’ pint glass.

The drink of champions

If your pint of choice is Guiness, Bass or Smithwicks – You like to stand out in the crowd and let’s face it, you do. Or, you’re a daddy’s boy (or girl) through and through. The day you tried a sip of your dad’s beer and hated it but took it anyway (at probably around 10) was the day you became a man.

Wine

Maybe you admired how classy your mum looked holding a wine glass when you were younger and now it’s your turn. It’s definitely still classy when you’re necking a £5 offer of whatever-white-is wine, right? If it’s a deep and mysterious red rather than an indiscriminate get-you-drunk white, it’s a different story. You like to sit down at a table and drink, you’re more of a quiet person who prefers to laugh along with the conversation but can get loud at about half way through the wine bottle. The awkwardly good student with a few close friends.

And at the end of the night no matter what you’ve been drinking, you’ll end up clutching onto one of these for dear life.