History DrinkBasedCharacterization / StrongDrinks

** Chekov and Scotty once compare drink orders in "The Trouble with Tribbles". Chekov likes vodka -- which Scotty calls "soda pop." His drink of choice is scotch -- which, according to Chekov, "was inwented by a little old lady from [[FailedFutureForecast Leningrad]]."

** Logan's strong preference for beer stems from his [[CanadaEh Canadian]] background, and it's also an indicator that he has lived for many years as a vagabond.

* ''WebVideo/TheHappyVideoGameNerd'': While the Angry Nerd [[INeedAFreakingDrink drinks beer to get through shitty games]], the Happy Nerd drinks wine to celebrate good games. In his review of ''FinalFantasyMysticQuest'', he instead drinks a soda to show his appreciation for casual games.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', Rusty is at a low-rent strip club where beer is the drink of choice - he orders a Rob Roy, and the burly bartender reaches down under the bar, looking like he's going after a baseball bat (but reaches for a drink recipe card.)

-->'''David''': I like the wine, not the bottle.

** CampGay David Rose orders a Carmel Machiatto with two sweeteners and a sprinkle of cocoa powder, which his boyfriend Patrick remembers. StraightGay Patrick often drinks tea, the simplicity of which reflects his personality.

** Claude Erskine-Brown, the least self-aware and snobbiest character on the programme,[[note]]Seriously, even the Lord Chancellor deigns to drink beer to make a point to Mr Justice Featherstone in "Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent"--a beer (and sandwich) dear old Guthrie self-awarely accepts, to his credit.[[/note]] fancies himself a wine connoisseur, and is frequently seen ordering reasonably sophisticated wines.[[note]]A case of TheCastShowoff: Julian Curry, who played Erskine-Brown, really is an amateur wine expert and has done a bit of work in informing the public about fine wine.[[/note]] Even when he's on hard times and "scraping the bottom of [Rumpole's] barrel," he tries to avoid Pommeroy's usual plonk. (It probably helps here that his wife is a mega-successful QC and then Red Judge, so his financial problems are never that dire--unlike Rumpole's.)

** Rumpole, being a barrister, drinks wine, but being an unpretentious working criminal-defence barrister his wine of choice is "Pommeroy's Plonk," aka "Chateau Fleet Street," aka "Chateau Thames Embankment," aka whatever alleged "claret" Pommeroy's Wine Bar stocks for two quid a bottle.
** She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed (i.e. his wife Hilda), daughter of a barrister and married to another, sticks to the typical drinks of middle-class midcentury housewives, and so is typically seen quaffing gin and tonic.

* In ''Literature/TheKingkillerChronicle'', {{the Bard}} Kvothe regularly performs at an upmarket tavern and is happy to let his admirers buy him [[WineIsClassy vintage Sounten]] -- [[GuileHero which is to say]], the bartender gives him a mug of water and half of what said admirer pays for the "wine".

* The eponymous detective of ''Literature/NeroWolfe'' surveys 49 beers, selects Remmer's as his tipple of choice, and drinks six quarts a day -- [[TheAlcoholic eight times the recommended daily average]]. Refusing to drink until a particularly notorious killer is caught is portrayed as SeriousBusiness.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'': Julian Sark prefers the pricey and rare Chateau Pétrus 1982 (a fact that the Covenant [[YourFavorite is aware of]]), which is a strong indication of his sophisticated tastes. He also has a fondness for high-end champagne. He even nonchalantly pops off the cork from the bottle while ''[[TheUnfettered completely surrounded by numerous agents with lots of guns]].'' When he adopts the alias of Bob Brown, an American, he orders beer at the bar. This choice of drink is supposed to hint that Bob is middle-class, unlike Sark's posh Englishman routine.

** In Cristóbal Rios' first scene, he drinks a shot of aguardiente. If you had guessed that he's a rugged character, then you'd be right. His choice of beverage also alludes to his Latin American background because showrunner Creator/MichaelChabon [[https://i.imgur.com/IgObV67.jpg affirms]] that Rios is Chilean.

** [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Brock Samson]] drinks beer.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', Rusty is at a low-rent strip club where beer is the drink of choice - he orders a Rob Roy, and the burly bartender reaches down under the bar, looking like he's going after a baseball bat (but reaches for a drink recipe card.)

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Bender is most often seen drinking [[JustForPun Lowbrau]] brand beer.

* In ''Webcomic/Achewood'', both Ray Smuckles and Roast Beef Kazenzakis have a soft spot for "[[InsistentTerminology crispy, crispy Stellas]]".