> Yet it cannot be just a question of wine being harder to stomach in greater quantities than beer I'd also say that pennying[1], a drinking game established a

> Yet it cannot be just a question of wine being harder to stomach in greater quantities than beer I'd also say that pennying[1], a drinking game established at Cambridge/Oxford/Durham/St. Andrews (and others) and played almost exclusively with wine (or occasionally port), points in this direction. [1] https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/654919 https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/654919 - a particularly devious example is the engineer's penny, which is a penny that has been bent so that it will fit down the neck of a wine bottle, "obliging" (obviously not enforced on anyone) you to finish the bottle