Drink

In World of Warcraft, drink can mean a couple of things:

A beverage item that your character can consume by sitting down that restores mana over a specified time period. Food items are the analog to drink for health.
A beverage item, generally created by cooking, that your character can consume that provides a benefit other than mana restoration.
An alcoholic beverage item that provides an inebriation debuff known as becoming tipsy. Some items provide a useful buff as well as being alcoholic.
As a verb, the act of consuming a drink item, an elixir, or a potion.

Drink vendors will appear with as a bread/milk icon () at their locations, when using the minimap tracking feature.

Drink Items

Drink items can be received as quest rewards, purchased from vendors, created with cooking*, found in containers such as Water Barrels and Milk Barrels, and conjured by mages. Mana restoring drink items are often referred to collectively as "water", which is not strictly accurate.

Only a few types of drink can be created with cooking:

[Thistle Tea] - restores a rogue's energy rather than mana.
[Goldthorn Tea] - a mana restoring drink.
[Winter Veil Egg Nog] an alcoholic beverage that grants food benefit - it restores health rather than mana.
- Winter Veil Egg Nog counts as a drink toward the It's Happy Hour Somewhere achievement, not as a food toward the Tastes Like Chicken achievement.
[Hot Apple Cider] - a mana restoring drink, with a "well fed" buff.
[Captain Rumsey's Lager] - an alcoholic beverage that gives a fishing skill buff.
[Kungaloosh] - an alcoholic mana restoring drink.

Alcoholic Drinks

Alcoholic drinks (ale, beer, wine, mead, etc.) can be purchased from innkeepers, vendors and from events, received as quest rewards, or found as drops. A few can be made by cooking. These drinks do not restore mana, but instead cause your character to become tipsy. (Winter Veil Egg Nog restores health.) Some also provide temporary stat buffs. As of Patch 2.1, these buffs count as [Well Fed] and do not stack with food buffs anymore.

Types of buyable drink

Name	Level Requirement	Mana Healed	Price¹
[Refreshing Spring Water]		151 mana over 18 seconds	25
[Ice Cold Milk]	5	436 mana over 21 seconds	1 25
[Melon Juice]	15	835 mana over 24 seconds	5
[Sweet Nectar]	25	1344 mana over 27 seconds	10
[Moonberry Juice]	35	1992 mana over 30 seconds	20
[Morning Glory Dew]	45	2934 mana over 30 seconds	40
[Footman's Waterskin]	55	4200 mana over 30 seconds	20
[Grunt's Waterskin]	55	4200 mana over 30 seconds	20
[Filtered Draenic Water]	60	5100 mana over 30 seconds	56
[Purified Draenic Water]	65	7200 mana over 30 seconds	64
[Star's Lament]	55	4200 mana over 30 seconds	12 1
[Star's Tears]	65	7200 mana over 30 seconds	1 1
[Sweetened Goat's Milk]	65	7200 mana over 30 seconds	60
[Pungent Seal Whey]	70	9180 mana over 30 seconds	85
[Honeymint Tea]	75	19200 mana over 30 seconds	1 10
[Sparkling Oasis Water]	80	45000 mana over 30 seconds	1 23 75
[Highland Spring Water]	85	96000 mana over 30 seconds	1 37 50

¹ This is the base price before any discounts.

Types of conjurable drink

Name	Level Requirement	Mana Gained	Spell level
[Conjured Water]		151 mana over 18 seconds	4
[Conjured Fresh Water]	5	436 mana over 21 seconds	10
[Conjured Purified Water]	15	835 mana over 24 seconds	20
[Conjured Spring Water]	25	1344 mana over 27 seconds	30
[Conjured Mineral Water]	35	1992 mana over 30 seconds	40
[Conjured Sparkling Water]	45	2934 mana over 30 seconds	50
[Conjured Crystal Water]	55	4200 mana over 30 seconds	60
[Conjured Glacier Water]	65	7200 mana over 30 seconds	70
[Conjured Mana Pie]	74	18480 health and 12840 mana over 30 seconds	75
[Conjured Mana Strudel]	80	67500 health and 45000 mana over 30 seconds	80
[Conjured Mana Cake]	85	96000 health and 96000 mana over 30 seconds	85

Types of alcohol

Main article: Alcohol

Name	Alcohol strength	Price¹
[Thunder Ale]	A fairly weak alcoholic beverage	50
[Rhapsody Malt]	A fairly weak alcoholic beverage	50
[Bottle of Dalaran Noir]	A fairly weak alcoholic beverage	50
[Skin of Dwarven Stout]	A typical alcoholic beverage	1 20
[Flask of Stormwind Tawny]	A typical alcoholic beverage	1 50
[Flagon of Dwarven Mead]	A strong alcoholic beverage	15
[Jug of Badlands Bourbon]	A strong alcoholic beverage	20
[Brightsong Wine]	A strong alcoholic beverage	Quest
[Junglevine Wine]	A strong alcoholic beverage.	3
[Cup of Frog Venom Brew]	A strong alcoholic beverage.	15
[Skin of Mulgore Firewater]	A strong alcoholic beverage.	20

¹ This is the base price before any discounts.

Achievement

The exploration achievement [It's Happy Hour Somewhere] requires a character to "Drink 25 different types of beverages." Drinks that provide a restorative effect over time and alcoholic beverages appear to count for this achievement, potions, elixirs, and flasks do not. The common thread is items that are conceptually a beverage count.

Event drinks often count toward this achievement, but many do not. This may be due to unresolved bugs or it may be that it was decided that they not count toward two separate achievements.

The monthly Brew of the Month Club drinks do not count.
The [Brewfest Brew] looted from the Keg of Brewfest Brew which is summoned by the [Brewfest Pony Keg] does not count.
The Feast of Winter Veil drinks all count. This includes the [Winter Veil Egg Nog], which has food-like benefits.

Trivia

A possible explanation for why drinking things restores mana is given by the March Issue of Kirin Tor Monthly. It states that "proper hydration is critical to effective spellcasting". This may have been a joke.