Alcohol

The Third Doctor enjoys some wine. (TV: Day of the Daleks)

Alcohol was ethanol diluted into a drink with an inebriating effect. It was consumed, used, seen and even occasionally manufactured by the Doctor, his companions and various other individuals.

Alcohol in general

Different species had different reactions to alcohol. Humans and Threllips were known to get drunk after drinking too much alcohol. (AUDIO: Living Legend) The various species of Sentarion had a stronger resistance to alchol than humans. (PROSE: Shakedown) Gallifreyans were more resistant yet. They could easily shrug off the effects of alcohol when they needed to. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel, PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice, TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) As with humans, however, excessive consumption could produce a hangover. (AUDIO: Slipback) Ginger beer would reduce their ability to tolerate alcohol. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)

Some cultures were opposed to the drinking of alcohol. In the early 20th century, there was a prohibition of alcohol in America. (TV: Immortal Sins, PROSE: Blood Harvest) In a parallel universe, alcohol was banned in 21st century Great Britain, though the law was so poorly enforced that bootleg liquor was served at a party attended by the President of Great Britain. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) The Saraani religion forbade the drinking of alcohol. (PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage) The various species of Sentarion were opposed to the drinking of alcohol, though they had no problems with aliens doing so and even made Rekkar themselves. (PROSE: Shakedown) Alpha Centaurans never drank alcohol and didn't see the appeal of it. (PROSE: The Dark Path)

Wine

Wine was a drink made from pressed fruit, usually some form of grape. It was commonly found on Earth.

References

The Doctor

• The First Doctor was given a refill on his wine during his feast with Nero. (TV: The Romans)
• The First Doctor provided a bottle of wine, perhaps champagne, to Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom on Christmas Day. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• The Second Doctor drank wine in Theodore Maxtible's house and offered some to Arthur Terrall. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
• The Second Doctor drank wine while on an unnamed planet. (PROSE: Twin Piques)
• The third incarnation of the Doctor in particular enjoyed a glass or two of wine while guarding Auderly House, saying to Jo; "That's a most good-humoured wine. A touch sardonic, perhaps, but not cynical. A most civilised wine, one after my own heart." (TV: Day of the Daleks)
• The third incarnation of the Doctor was also offered wine while at the Wholeweal community. (TV: The Green Death)
• Sour wine was on offer in Irongron's castle. The third incarnation of the Doctor also drank several goblets while with Lord Wesex. (TV: The Time Warrior)
• Mehendri Solon gave the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith some red wine when they were in his house on Karn. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
• The Fourth Doctor described 1979 as more of a "table wine" of a year, while in Paris. (TV: City of Death)
• The Fourth Doctor and Romana drank red wine while celebrating a victory over the King Vampire. They later drank a wine of lower quality in the House of Zarn. The Eighth Doctor also drank after saving the Fourth's life. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
• While in the past of the Gateway, The Fourth Doctor ate and drank wine with Biroc and other Tharils. He also used the idea of overfilling one of the Tharils' goblets with wine to illustrate a point. (TV: Warriors' Gate)
• According to the reminiscence of the Sixth Doctor, Azmael and the Fourth Doctor drank extensively one night near a fountain. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
• The Seventh Doctor ordered champagne and wine while posing as a Reichsinspektor General in an alternate timeline. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus)
• In the cellar of his house, the Seventh Doctor had wines from every conceivable century on Earth, wines from Ribos and champagnes from Manussa. (PROSE: Decalog 2: Lost Property)
• The Eighth Doctor drank eight glasses of champagne at a wedding on the planet Albert. (PROSE: Grimm Reality)
• The Ninth Doctor could identify the year and place of origin of wine by its taste. (PROSE: The Clockwise Man)
• While preparing to have the Ninth Doctor over for dinner, Jackie Tyler asked if he drank, to which Rose replied that he did. (TV:World War Three)
• The Ninth Doctor and Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen had wine at a restaurant in Cardiff while waiting for the TARDIS to refuel. (TV:Boom Town)
• The Tenth Doctor, while acting drunker than he was, used the wine he had brought back from a party in France to disable the Clockwork Robots and rescue Rose and Mickey. He also claimed to have just invented at that same party the banana daiquiri years ahead of its time. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
• The Eleventh Doctor appeared to dislike wine, spitting it back into the glass after taking a sip when given some at the house of Craig Owens. (TV: The Lodger)
• The Eleventh Doctor tried wine and spat it out at a picnic with Amy, Rory, and River Song, and revealed his age to be eleven hundred three years, saying he must have tried wine at some time in his life. (TV: The Impossible Astronaut) He said the bottle was thrown at him by Napoleon. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

Bernice Summerfield

• Bernice Summerfield consumed a lot of wine during a meal with King Tarrol on Peladon, seemingly to trick a pair of accompanying Ice Warriors into thinking she was drunk (she wasn't). (PROSE: Legacy)
• Whilst at the Braxiatel Collection, Bernice Summerfield drank Craxiatanian Chardonay. (PROSE: Theatre of War)
• Bernice enjoyed a good German wine on a hot summer's day. (PROSE: Strange England)
• Bernice and Irving Braxiatel shared some glasses of fine champagne following the Gamaliel situation. (PROSE: Dragons' Wrath)
• Bernice once got drunk on wine with Evelyn Smythe. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor)

Other companions

• Susan drank wine whilst on the planet Avalon, explaining to Ian Chesterton that she couldn't get drunk unless she wanted to. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
• Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton drank some wine whilst in a Roman villa. Vicki and her poisoner friend attempted to kill Nero by putting poison in his wine goblet. (TV: The Romans)
• Jamie McCrimmon drank wine while on an unnamed planet. (PROSE: Twin Piques)
• Duggan and Romana drank wine following their failed attempt at stopping the theft of the Mona Lisa whilst in Paris. (TV: City of Death)
• Evelyn Smythe drank red wine during a meal with Charles Darwin in an attempt to avoid the various turtle-based dishes. (AUDIO: Bloodtide)
• Ace drank wine and sherry with the Time Scaphe crew. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible)
• Chris Cwej got drunk on melon wine and had his right ear pierced prior to their arrival in the 1980s. (PROSE: Damaged Goods)
• Amy Pond bought a bottle of wine to share with Vincent van Gogh in France, 1890. (TV: Vincent and the Doctor)

Torchwood Three

• Champagne taken with level 6 retcon made everyone at Gwen and Rhys Williams' wedding fall asleep and forget the day's strange events. (TV: Something Borrowed)

Other

• The Wine Lords were famed throughout the Galaxy for their wines. Their society collapsed when they were convicted of mislabelling wine. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus)
• The Squire drank wine for medicinal reasons. (TV: The Visitation)
• Richard Mace declared to Adric that wine tasted like nectar after looting some from the cellar of a manor. (TV: The Visitation)
• Lord Percy liked to drink champagne when hunting. (PROSE: The Doctor Trap)

Beer

Beer was created by the fermentation of barley and hops in water. The farming of hops for this purpose may have been have been what caused humanity to first switch from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural one. (PROSE: Walking to Babylon)

References

The Doctor

• The First Doctor was served mead by Edith. (TV: The Time Meddler)
• The First Doctor was offered some alcohol by the dentist Doc Holliday before a tooth extraction, but he said that he never touched the stuff. (TV: The Gunfighters)
• The Fifth Doctor got drunk on ale spiked with ginger beer, which seriously reduced his resistance to alcohol. This also affected the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Kingmaker)
• The Sixth Doctor drank Fisherman's Ruin, the local beer in Sheldon's Folly. (PROSE: Grave Matter)
• The Seventh Doctor and Dr. John Watson drank beer in London. It was laced with strychnine to give it body. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
• In the cellar of his house, the Seventh Doctor had a shelf stacked high with Ogron ale. (PROSE: Decalog 2: Lost Property)
• The Eighth Doctor once drank cider with his companion Charley. (PROSE: A Good Life)
• The Eighth Doctor drank beer in Las Vegas. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen)
• The Ninth Doctor claimed a former British Prime Minister drank him under the table. (TV: Aliens of London)

Bernice Summerfield

• Bernice Summerfield drank real ale in Oxford, 1993. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders)
• Bernice Summerfield drank six pints at a beer tent on the planet Crex. (PROSE: Human Nature)
• Much beer was consumed at the Cheldon Bonniface pub leading up to Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
• St. Oscar's University held at the end of each term the 'Kinky Gerlinky Memorial Staturluna, Beer Race and Pyjama Jump'. (PROSE: Ghost Devices)
• The Witch and Whirlwind bar on Dellah sold Admiral's Old Antisocial beer, which Benny loved. (PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage)

Other companions

• The Brigadier stated "I'd rather have a pint" at the end of events in Devil's End. (TV: The Dæmons)
• Ben Jackson had some beer in 17th century Cornwall. (TV: The Smugglers)
• Ace drank beer in bowl in Mesopotamia, 2700 BC. She thought it tasted not unlike pig vomit. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys)
• Martian Ale was mentioned by Roz in relation to sex. (PROSE: The Also People)
• At the conclusion of events Fitz Kreiner drank beer and ate crisps on Vega Station. (PROSE: Demontage)
• Evelyn Smythe used to compete in the Yard of Ale race against the students at the History Social. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy)

Torchwood Three

• Gwen Cooper drank a large beer as Jack explained some details about Torchwood. (TV: Everything Changes)

Other

• A bar on Blinni-Gar served Ogron ale. (PROSE: Prime Time)
• Creeby compared non-alcoholic drinks to poison. (COMIC: Where Nobody Knows Your Name)

Spirits

Spirits were made by distillation, and were usually quite potent.

References

The Doctor

• The Third Doctor drank what appeared to be a whiskey and soda in Hart's office. (TV: The Sea Devils)
• The Third Doctor toasted Captain Dent's health with an unknown spirit after a civilised, but confrontational, introduction. (TV: Colony in Space)
• The Third Doctor and Iris Wildthyme drank Bombay Sapphire Gin, in which the Doctor preferred lime to lemon. (PROSE: Verdigris)
• The Sixth Doctor, The Brigadier and Claire Aldwych drank (gulped mainly) a lot of brandy while discussing the deaths of Hitler and Eva Braun. (PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass)
• The Seventh Doctor brewed whiskey in the TARDIS bathtub whilst in Chicago in 1929. (PROSE: Blood Harvest)
• The Eighth Doctor once drank whiskey. (PROSE: Sometime Never...)
• The Ninth Doctor threatened to triplicate the flammability of some brandy, but the Slitheen declared that he was "making that up". Harriet Jones also informed him that one passes to one's left. Later, he, Harriet and Rose imbibed a measure of that brandy after successfully rescuing Mickey and Jackie by phone. (TV: World War Three)

Bernice Summerfield

• Bernice Summerfield drank cheap, watered down vodka in a dirty London bar in 1908. (PROSE: Birthright)
• Bernice Summerfield drank rekkar with Professor Lazlo Zemar whilst researching on the planet Sentarion. (PROSE: Shakedown)
• Bernice Summerfield brewed vodka to clean wounds (and to drink). She also found a flask of the Doctor's Napoleon Brandy. According to the Doctor, it was really Napoleon's brandy. (PROSE: Sanctuary)
• Roz and Bernice drank homemade hooch on the planet Yemaya 4. (PROSE: Sleepy)
• Bernice fought a Martian on Earth in 1997 with a bottle of (cheap) vodka and a lighter. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
• Bernice spent time in the Witch and Whirlwind bar while Jason and Emile were off having adventures (on what wasn't Ardethe) drinking Jack Daniels and scotch. (PROSE: Deadfall)
• On what was supposed to be an alcohol free cruise, Bernice Summerfield drank some (particularly lethal) Brettellian Potato spirit so strong it made her eyes water. (PROSE: Dry Pilgrimage)
• RedStar was a brand of Martian vodka. It was used in several cocktails such as 'A Red Under The Bed', Bernice Summerfield drank much RedStar whilst on Mars. (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)
• Benny drank drugged brandy whilst on the Braxiatel Collection. (PROSE: The Squire's Crystal)

Other companions

• The Countess drank a green liquid when she spoke to the Fourth Doctor, Romana and Duggan. (TV: City of Death)
• Chris' father, when Chris, the Doctor, Roz and Bernice returned to Earth following a variety of confrontations, opened a bottle of Gallavax Prime, fermented drink brewed by mutant space bees which tastes vaguely of honey. (PROSE: Original Sin)
• Jack Harkness when sentenced to death ordered three hypervodkas as a last meal. (TV: The Doctor Dances)
• A bar on Blinni-Gar served; Draconian sake and Foamasi brandy. (PROSE: Prime Time)
• The Fourth Doctor asked Harry Sullivan to go get a bottle of brandy from his TARDIS to help revive Sarah Jane Smith after she had fallen unconscious from lack of oxygen on The Ark. Sarah responded to the offer by making a disgusted noise and stating she hated brandy. (TV: The Ark in Space)
• During his final days in a nursing home, the Brigadier would make the staff pour an extra brandy for the Doctor, in the hope he would visit one last time. (TV: The Wedding of River Song)

Other

• On Eastenders, where a storyline in 2007 had Peggy Mitchell being confronted by a ghost of Den Watts, she told him to get out of her pub, saying that the only spirits she served were gin, whisky and vodka. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

Cocktails and other alcoholic drinks

References

The Doctor

• The Tenth Doctor claimed (while attempting to distract the clockwork androids) that he accidentally created the banana daiquiri. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)

Bernice Summerfield

• Bernice Summerfield drank three glasses of Kronka, a cocktail of cherry brandy, creme de bananas and pure M3 variant at a space port. (PROSE: The Highest Science)

Other companions

• Tegan drank a screwdriver (orange juice and vodka) whilst at Lord Charles Cranleigh's garden party in 1925. (TV: Black Orchid)
• Donna drank a sidecar (cognac, orange liqueur and lemon juice) whilst at Lady Eddison's garden party in 1926. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
• Ace drank a gin and tonic (among other things) and went drinking with Vincent. (PROSE: Warlock)
• Fitz Kreiner (pretending to be James Bond) drank martinis "shaken not stirred" on Vega Station. (PROSE: Demontage)
• Fitz Kreiner also drank Bactrian cocktails from his hip flask, despite the Doctor's advice to just put a drop on a sugar cube. The same cocktail knocked Anji unconscious for at least forty-eight hours. (AUDIO: The Company of Friends)
• Polly drank several cocktails including a Flaming Her before switching to rum and coke while at the Regent Hotel bar. (PROSE: Dying in the Sun)
• Barbara Wright was introduced to gin and tonics when a student by Herbert Effemy. (PROSE: Byzantium!)

Others

• There were many sundowners consumed by the people within the Miniscope on the SS Bernice. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)
• Shou Yuing had a vodka and coke while she talked to Ace. (TV: Battlefield)
• Vragg was a Sontaran beverage. (PROSE: Shakedown)
• Irving Braxiatel offers martinis all round in his office in the Proximia Chain (PROSE: Return to the Fractured Planet)
• Scorby constructed a Molotov cocktail to attack a Krynoid. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
• Bev Tarrant drank a dry vodka martini whilst on Duchamp 331. (AUDIO: Dust Breeding)