What your drink says about you

Good news ahead! You don't have to strike up a conversation with someone or even check out their body language to determine their personality. Instead, steal a glance of what they're swigging and you'll immediately be able to tell who they are, what they're interested in and how they like their bedroom action.

Not convinced? Neither was I. They questioned customers on their signature drink, put them through a psychometric test and found that yes, indeed, certain drinks match certain personality traits.

"It's understandable as everything that we do is an extension of ourselves," she told BBC News. "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 rather the person who, quite literally in this instance, makes the drink."
The results aren't too startling either ...

If you drink red wine, Taylor says, you're mature, discerning and organised. You like to alphabetise your CD collections, iPod tunes and maybe even colour-code your underwear.
If you like your vodka or white wine, you have an entrepreneurial spirit, like to be in charge and have an opinion on everything.
Tequila drinkers are extroverts, free spirits and unconcerned about what lies in the future - or even the next day for that matter. But who cares? You're so much fun that everyone around you ends up doing just the same.
Gin drinkers are tequila's antithesis: you're into relationships, novels with happy endings and saving whales.
Like your beer? You're experimental and creative, enjoy jazz, unusual art and like to interact with "off the wall" types of people.

Not convinced of the findings in the study? Well you're not alone. Hence seven New York bartenders decided to pool together and give their theory on what a drink says about a woman, (and not surprisingly, all came up with the exact same arguments!):

While women who drink beer are down to earth and low maintenance, if a girl orders something blended, it's a sure-fire sign for gents to watch out. Why? Apparently these chicks are flaky, annoying and a general pain in the butt. "Avoid her, unless you want to be her cabin boy!" the bartenders snarl.

If your date requests a shot? Then there's good news for the boys: "She's looking to get drunk... and naked," they say. Then there's the martini, made famous by James Bond in the '50s (who liked his shaken, not stirred). Lauren Weiss from New York-based web portal Method Shop, reckons the girl who orders a "dirty goose" (a martini with Grey Goose vodka), is in the mood for anything and everything.
"She can handle things the way they are, and likes it 'straight up' and 'stiff'. Just like the olives in her drink, this girl is smooth around the edges..."
But Weiss warns gents who date a woman with a Cosmopolitan in her hand: "The ladies who love this ultimate pink drink are 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. She is easily taken home, not because she is easy, but because she can't handle her liquor ... two or three of them and she will be leaning against you whispering in your ear before the DJ even arrives. She is an easy win, but just as long as she is out since she can't miss an episode of Laguna Beach."

Ouch. I think I'll stick to beers ...