Ordering beer tends to make bartenders' lives easier, since it's so quick and easy to serve, so these drinkers rank highly in bartenders' estimations. If anything, bartenders said that ordering a beer makes you look "chill."
"Ordering scotch or bourbon properly depending on the flavor profile says you know what you're doing and what you like," Danielle, a bartender from Seattle told Business Insider. "I really like when someone orders something with confidence rather than ordering something to look cool because they know the name of it."
"If you order premium alcohol mixed with something sweet, then I know you just want to impress somebody but you are not all that cultured," Sun said.
"Anything overly juicy or sugary are signs of immaturity," Amy, a bartender with four years of experience in New York told Business Insider.
"Apple martini? No, this isn't 1995. Stop it," Christine said.
"If they are drinking moscato, they don't like the taste of alcohol and just want to taste sugar," Christine, a bartender with two years of experience in Washington, DC, and New York, told Business Insider.
"Ordering a lot of tequila often gives the impression that you're trying to have a wild night," Elena Alvarez, a bartender with two years of experience at the University of Iowa told Business Insider.
"If a guy is going to a nightclub for young people and orders a dry martini, this guy is in the wrong place," Rodrigo Grudina, a bartender with eight years of experience in Curitiba, Brazil, told Business Insider.
Ordering a Long Island iced tea makes you "ignorant trash" in Meyer's eyes.
"If you order a Long Island Iced Tea, I know you are new to the bar scene and/or you are cheap and want to get sloppy drunk," Sun said.
If you order rum, bartender Kim Meyer told Business Insider you'll look like a "frat boy."
"Friends don't let friends date vodka soda girls. Basic girls always order them," Kyle Siegel, a bartender with nine years of experience in Montauk, New York, New York City, Palm Beach and West Palm, Florida, and Maryland told Business Insider.
"Please don't order vodka," Emily Doyle, a bartender with 12 years of experience in Ireland told Business Insider. "You're nice when you stick with beer, but a demon on spirits."
"If you order shots of absinthe, then I figure you're insane and a cheapskate drunkard," Sun said.
"Shots of Chartreuse, Jager, Goldschlager, or Fireball are abhorrently sweet and low on alcohol and tell me that you are a hipster who has no clue what you are doing," Jennifer Sun, a bartender with five years of experience in New Haven, Connecticut, told Business Insider.
"Some people will buy loads of expensive shots when out in groups," a bartender from Ireland with 12 years of experience told Business Insider. "They're trying to look flash."
But for all your attempts to look cool, bartenders say you just wind up looking the fool.
"You look stupid when you order expensive shots," a former bartender from New York with 10 years of experience told Business Insider. "The whole point is to get it down quickly — you're not enjoying the quality."
Read more on what bartenders think about ordering high-end shots »
"When you go for shots, I think 'trouble,'" a bartender in New York with eight years of experience told Business Insider.
Or, as another bartender in the US Virgin Islands put it, "Shots equal jacka-- juice."
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