User:Frost42/Alcohols

WIP update to Cannibeans' item project begin 9/23/20. Approved by Cannibeans 9/22/20.

Be sure to check out the other resources Cannibeans worked on as well!
 * User:Cannibeans

Below is a list of every alcoholic beverage within WoW's lore that Cannibeans and myself are aware of to date.

Currently there are 289 entries spread across 6 categories, though this will increase and change.

I'll be using Cannibean's formmatting and setup to continue this project to include items since he ended work on the project in 2018.

=Setup= Each alcohol is divided up into six categories.
 * Name is self-explanatory. Names in parenthesis accompanying the normal one are names that my RP character, Cannibal, has given them. They are not official but are free to use in your RP.
 * Appearances is a list of pictures that the alcohol has been known to use. If the alcohol has the same general appearance, I'll limit the pictures to three to save space, but some can come in multiple containers, so I will do my best to showcase all of them.
 * Potency is the severity of the alcoholic content in the drink.
 * Notes is any additional information revealed in quests or item descriptions, such as physical properties, smells or irrelevant effects.
 * Location is where the alcohol can be found, as well as the brewer, the person or group responsible for either first creating, or consistently producing that specific alcohol. Some alcohols are rare world drops and can therefore appear in numerous zones at random, so I simplify this down to just mean "". If you'd like to find all alcohol within a zone, the sorting feature doesn't work too well. I suggest using Ctrl+F and searching that way.
 * Sources include all the resources I used to gather this information. Items are lootable items found in-game. Quests are specific quests that involve gathering, or mention the mineral. Other includes any other mentions, such as in-game books, published novels or NPCs.

=FAQ=

How Do You Choose What to Add?
Anything and everything that has ever had a lore appearance is, or should be, included. This includes items that have appeared in-game and were subsequently removed in a future patch, even if they were active for only a single patch. This does not include items that were removed from testing or beta patches, as they were never applied to live realms. This also means I do not include items from upcoming patches, such as a new expansion's content. That content is always subject to change, and as we saw with Warlords of Draenor, quite a bit of profession material changes between beta testing and live.

How Do You Organize The Categories?
Since all these categories are rather vague, I will be organizing them based on their potency. If an alcoholic beverage does not have a clear category to fit into, I will be placing them into the Beer category as I believe this to be the most likely guess based on the setting.

Why Do Some Items Have Red Sources?
A lot of the newer items have not yet been added to Wowpedia. Please keep in mind that the majority of content created on this website is done by a small team of volunteers; none of us are being paid, and there is a lot of work to do. The wonderful PeterWind has been assisting in creating a few of the pages that I've sourced, but in the meantime, please use Wowhead for your sources if the ones here appear in red text.

How Can I Roleplay Knowing These?
You can either say your character did their own research into these items, collected them and studied them on their own, or, I will be progressing and RPing that my character, an elderly orc named Cannibal, has published this guide in book form and is working on selling it to various libraries. You are more than welcome to say your character has purchased this book, I just ask the courtesy of mentioning that Cannibal is the author. :)

=Wine= The below alcohols are classified as wines within the lore, usually fermented from grapes. This category also includes port, champagne, bubbly, noir, ripple, carricante, sangria, tawny, ruby, merlot and sherry.

=Sources=