Drinking Beer Emoji: Combos and Sequences
Unicode never encoded a person drinking a beer, so every version of that idea is a sequence. Tap any string below to copy the whole thing: a pour, a round, a bar night, or the hold-my-beer gag.
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.
Why this is a sequence, not a character
Unicode encodes objects, not actions. Beer Mug (U+1F37A) and Clinking Beer Mugs (U+1F37B) both arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, carried in from the Japanese mobile carrier sets, and both are static pictures of glassware. Nothing in the drinks range shows a person raising one. So the way people write “drinking a beer” in a message is to put two or three characters in a row and let the reader supply the verb.
Ready-made strings
| What you mean | String | Characters in it |
|---|---|---|
| Pouring one | 🫗🍺 | Pouring Liquid + Beer Mug |
| Another round | 🍺🍺🍺 | Beer Mug, three times |
| Drinking together | 🍻 | Clinking Beer Mugs |
| Round on the table | 🍻🎉🎊 | Clinking Beer Mugs + Party Popper + Confetti Ball |
| Bar night | 🍺🎱🎷 | Beer Mug + Billiards + Saxophone |
| Mixed crowd, one toast | 🍻🥂🍷 | Clinking Beer Mugs + Clinking Glasses + Wine Glass |
| Ice cold | 🍺🧊 | Beer Mug + Ice Cube |
| Hold my beer | hold my beer 🍺 | the words plus Beer Mug |
The last row is not a cop-out. There is no character that carries that joke, and the phrase only lands when the words are there; the mug is punctuation on the end of it.
How the mug is drawn
Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft all draw U+1F37A as a handled glass mug, amber, with a white foam head. Apple tilts it and runs a highlight down the glass. Google, Samsung and Microsoft keep it upright and flatter. Google’s earlier design drew the foam floating above the liquid instead of sitting on it, and was redrawn. Clinking Beer Mugs (U+1F37B) is two of those mugs meeting, with motion lines and splash on most platforms.
What does not exist
- No beer goggles, beer belly or beer gut character. Those searches have no Unicode answer at all; people build them from a face plus the mug and hope for the best.
- No beer pong character. The nearest piece is Billiards (U+1F3B1), which is a black eight ball, not a ping-pong ball.
- No character showing a person holding or drinking anything from the drinks set.
Honest caveats
- Screen readers announce each character by its own name. 🍺🎱🎷 is read out as “beer mug, billiards, saxophone” – three nouns, not a sentence. Put the meaning in words and let the string decorate.
- Most username and display-name fields either strip emoji or reject the whole entry. Sequences fail there more often than single characters, because one rejected character kills the field.
- Pouring Liquid (U+1FAD7) came in with Unicode 14.0 in 2021. On older phones and older desktop builds it shows as an empty box, which breaks the pour string in a way you will not see on your own screen.
For the single characters on their own, use beer emoji copy and paste and the beer mug entry. Toast strings live on beer cheers and cheers emoji combos.