(noun) The study of ancient cocktail recipes and search for lost libations. A combination of alcohol & archaeology.
Anyone can read the label on a bottle of American bourbon or Scotch whisky to know the difference, but in alchaeology we seek to divine secrets such as the original Maryland rye.
(noun) One who studies ancient cocktail recipes and searches for lost libations. A combination of alcohol & archaeologist.
An alcoholic will order a Mai Tai and keep drinking them for two hours. An alchaeologist will order a Mai Tai and argue for two hours whether Trader Vic or Don the Beachcomber invented it, which version is better, and which secret ingredients belong in it.