Vodka
There are two forms of vodka drinkers at festivals. There's the Vodka Red Bull kids who will be sufficiently 'buzzed' by midday and will also be ready front and centre for My Chemical Romance or Rihanna. Commonly aged between 17 and 20, the Vodka Red Bull drinkers’ favourite catchphrase is “Oh Em Gee I LOVE this song!” followed by hyperactive and enthusiastic squeals.
The other form of vodka drinker is the subtly boozed hip flask carrying drinker. These guys are festival professionals. The amount of different ways one flask can be transported into the festival could be an entire blog itself… don’t even get me started! This second kind of vodka drinker is stealth. You will never know they are even having a cheeky beverage as there is generally a simple lemonade or coke bottle in their hand.
Beer
The beer drinkers! You can smell them from the other end of the festivities. It takes a small 2.4 steps from exiting the line for a beer spillage to happen. I don’t know why this is. Perhaps it has something to do with the carbonate found in beer? Perhaps it’s the type of drinker the beverage draws in? Beer drinkers spend the day light hours of the festival in casual circles of fellow beer drinkers, avoiding dancing and moving. It is simply when the sun is officially behind the hill that these guys come out of their shells. Already sticky from a solid few hours of drinking, beer drinkers will become overly generous once dark, shouting ‘beer’ for all around and substituting dancing with shouting. It’s as if speaking at louder decibels is their creative way of expressing the beats their enjoying.
Whisky
“I’ll have a Jim Beam and coke thanks… make that 4” – yup! The whisky drinkers are the ones who are casually holding 4 cans in one hit. They don’t like doing things in halves and if it’s a ‘4 drinks per person capacity’ then its 4 drinkers they’ll be getting. The biggest spenders at a festival, whisky drinker are also quite commonly the ones who will go MIA early in the evening. No one ever knows where they disappear to… not even the nomads themselves.
Cider
Personally? I'm a cider drinker. You just can't beat cider fun in the sun. Large, refreshing and oozing with summer deliciousness. You just can’t pass up a drink that tantalizes the taste buds like a cider… and it has apples in it! Can I claim healthy option here? Not only is cider oozing with incredible flavour, the ways you can use a cider cup for entertainment purposes are endless and always a crowd pleaser.
