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NEXT time you are at the bar checking out that gorgeous babe or that hot hunk, forget body language. Try cocktail language.
Your favourite poison can tell a lot about you, according to 2005 UK study on drinkers.
The week-long study conducted at a popular London bar, questioned customers on their favourite drinks and found that certain drinks matched certain personality traits.
UK psychologist Ms Ros Taylor, who helped administer the poll, told the BBC: 'Outward signs give an indication and clue to what a person is about, such as clothes or hair style.
'It is not the drink that makes the person, but the person who, quite literally in this instance, makes the drink.'
We asked the some folks in the bar business and drinkers here what drinks reveal about personality.
IF you like your cocktails with half a fruit orchard as its main ingredient, then you are in touch with your feminine side.
Miss Nadine Soh, the 23-year-old bartender at Loof, said that such cocktails are particularly popular with women, as they like their drinks to 'taste sweet and look pretty'.
'It also has to be refreshing, with our hot weather.'
Loof is the rooftop bar at Odeon Towers.
Example: Gummi Berri, one of Loof's three signature cocktails.
The gin and cointreau mix is blended with fresh strawberries and blueberries. It is topped with a meringue - a dessert made from whipped egg whites and caster sugar - and seared golden with a kitchen blowtorch.
Mr Steven Choo, 29, Loof's assistant manager, said: 'The ladies love this drink because it looks like a dessert and they think the meringue is a marshmallow.'
The other two signature Loof's drinks, the Tom Yum and Loof Life, are also popular especially with women.
The Tom Yum cocktail uses vodka that is infused with tom yum ingredients like lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves and chilli, while the Loof Life is a rum and mint-based long drink.
If you like the Tom Yum, which almost tastes like the soup except it has a vodka kick, you are the adventurous sort, said Mr Choo.
He said: 'Most of the people who order the Tom Yum want to try something new or different. We have received feedback that we should make it spicier.'
IF you are a classic martini drinker, you're an executive, a sharp dresser and perfectionist. The martini is made of gin or vodka, dry vermouth and garnished with an olive.
Mr David Ho, 33, Barcadi's brand manager, one of the featured brands at the Martini InnerCity Festival, said martini drinkers are a discerning lot.
'They know exactly what goes in the martini and they are very particular about how it should taste,' he said.
Loof's Mr Choo agreed. 'The dry martini is not a demanding drink to make. But the dry martini drinker is demanding.'
IT'S like an alcoholic dessert, and the people who love it are seen as soft, sweet and sexy.
At the The Grand Hyatt Singapore's martini bar at the Mezza9 - it offers over 100 martinis - the lychee martini is their signature drink.
Mr Franz Sanchez, the Mezza9's manager, said that women in particular love it because it has flair.
'The glass is sexy and when you're holding the drink, you look stylish,' he said.
THANKS to the hit television series and the movie, Sex and the City, anybody seen quaffing this vodka and cranberry juice concoction with gusto is a certified fan.
Ms Lauren Weiss, who runs a New York web portal, the Method Shop, described the fans of the pink drink in the Melbourne newspaper The Age, as 'Sex and the City fanatics, tabloid loving, overly-made up chicks who spend most of their time getting manicures or gossiping over lattes about the latest styles and hottest celebrities'.
Student Carolyn Choo, 19, however, disagrees: 'I watch Sex and the City but I am not a gossipy latte-drinking type. It's a sweet drink and I drink it when I don't feel like getting drunk.'
BACARDI'S brand manager, Mr David Ho, dubs whisky drinkers as straightforward, and people 'who know who they are and what they want'.
Whisky drinker Miss Cheryl Tay, 21, agreed with the personality description. The writer loves Johnny Walker black label, which she has on the rocks or neat.
'I am straightforward and yes, I do know what I want.'
IN the UK study red wine drinkers are described to be mature and organised, while white wine drinkers are entrepreneurial, independent and opinionated.
But public relations executive and white-wine drinker Dawn Tessensohn, 24, was not sure about that.
She said: 'I just like drinking white wine, especially Rieslings, because I find it smoother than red wine. I don't know if I am entrepreneurial in any way.'
MEN who drink the barley and hops, says the UK study, are creative and experimental, while women who drink beer are down-to-earth and low maintenance.
Writer Norman Paul, 34, and a beer drinker, however, doesn't agree .
'If you're drinking craft or boutique beers, then that can be considered experimental and creative,' he said.
But he did agree that women who drink and enjoy beer are down-to-earth.
Said Mr Paul: 'They are easy to get along and are quite relaxed.'
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