Beer and Bar ASCII Art
Multiline beer steins, pints, bottles, martini and wine glasses and a small bar sign, all built from plain keyboard characters, plus single-line versions that survive a username field. Copy any block with one tap.
Tap any tile to copy it. Nothing is sent anywhere — the copy happens in your browser.
Repeat it 100, 1000 or 10,000 times
100 copies — 499 characters.
ASCII art is a picture, not a character
Every piece here is built from ordinary keyboard characters — brackets, slashes, underscores, pipes, letters — stacked in rows. The beer mug emoji is one character your font draws for you; a stein made of brackets is forty characters you arrange yourself. Nothing here needs an emoji font, so it survives in plain-text logs, old forum software and in-game chat.
It only lines up in a monospace font
The multiline pieces assume every character is the same width. In a proportional font the rows drift and the foam ends up over the handle. The shape holds in:
- Discord and Slack code blocks — wrap the art in three backticks
- Reddit and GitHub code blocks
- Notepad, TextEdit in plain-text mode, any code editor
- Terminals, and game chat with a fixed-width font
It breaks in Instagram and TikTok bios, Word in its default font, most comment boxes, and anything that reflows text into a narrow column.
Single-line pieces for fields that reject line breaks
Usernames, display names and most form inputs take one line. Paste multiline art in and the breaks are stripped, leaving a run of punctuation that looks like nothing. The single-line pieces — a mug written c[_], a stemmed glass written \_/, a flute written Y — survive that, and they are the only ones worth feeding to the repeater above. Repeating a multiline drawing inline gives noise, not a row of mugs, which is why the tool is seeded with the mug.
When a real character is the better answer
| Character | Official Unicode name | Codepoint | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🍺 | Beer Mug | U+1F37A | A tall dimpled stein on some platforms, a squat mug on others; the head of foam differs on all of them |
| 🍻 | Clinking Beer Mugs | U+1F37B | What people mean by cheers. Two mugs, not two glasses |
| 🥂 | Clinking Glasses | U+1F942 | Champagne flutes, and a separate character from the mugs above |
| 🍷 | Wine Glass | U+1F377 | Always drawn with red wine, which is why a white-wine version keeps getting asked for |
| 🍸 | Cocktail Glass | U+1F378 | A martini glass, garnished with an olive or a cherry by vendor |
| 🍾 | Bottle With Popping Cork | U+1F37E | The closest thing Unicode has to a bottle behind a bar |
There is no plain beer bottle and no plain wine bottle in Unicode, which is why the beer bottle page and the wine bottle page both end by sending people here. Take the popping-cork character, or the longneck ASCII piece.
Honest limits
- Screen readers. ASCII art is announced as individual punctuation marks, or skipped. Put a word beside it.
- Black and white. Searches for a monochrome beer or wine glass end here, because ASCII art takes the colour of your text. No emoji has a black-and-white switch.
- Auto-formatting. Editors that curl quotes or convert dashes deform the art. Paste into plain text first.
- Length caps. A capped field drops the bottom rows, leaving a lid floating on nothing.
For the character versions, start at the drink emoji index or the cheers page.