The recent trend in high-end cocktails (in vulgar parlors: mixology) has made us long for the halcyon days of kegstands and saki bombs. For many, like San Francisco bartenders, it's gone too far. While barrels of artisan know-how has been imparted since the cocktail trend started a few years ago, aimless snobbery also ran amok.

Writing for 7x7, Alcademic's Camper English explains:

Bartenders can celebrate: They’ve succeeded in educating their customers. But they’ve also created some highly demanding ones who order minor cocktails from out-of-print recipe books, bring their own homemade bitters to the bar, and lecture nearby customers on their poor beverage choices.

Yes, please stop educating your bar patrons, artisan alcoholics. This is akin to telling your frail buddies how to properly cut and snort a bag of cocaine. Not only is it rude, it ultimately kills whatever buzz one is attempting to achieve.