A frothy mug of beer, foam spilling slightly over the rim — that's the beer-mug emoji. It's used for grabbing a drink, going out, and the classic 'cheers' toast, standard shorthand for happy-hour plans or a night at the bar.
What 🍺 means
A glass stein with some reddish-orange beer in it, filling the mug to the rim and oozing to the top forming a disc of foam. The 🍺 Beer Mug emoji signifies a way to catch up with friends, watch a game, chill, relax, and a great drink to have with almost any kind of food.
How and when to use it
- If you're calling your friends over for some beer or you're discussing to catch up for a game at a beer club, use 🍺.
- While sharing social media posts or stories about drinking beer or even playing beer-based drinking games such as beer pong, make sure to use 🍺.
- You can also use 🍺 to suggest that you are drunk on beer.
- Also, 🍺 would be a nice and neutral emoji to use while referring to broader themes such as 'pubs', 'bars', 'alcohol', and the like.
- If you're flaunting your beer belly with someone close enough to cringe out by it but still love you, or you're texting someone about how endlessly it's growing, use 🍺.
- Use 🍺 while sharing exciting yet informative posts on beer; like the different kinds of beers you've tasted, beer making, even beer-based beauty products that you've used (or not).
Other Names
- 🍺 Beer
- 🍺 Beer Stein
- 🍺 Stein Mug
- 🍺 Ale
- 🍺 Beer Pint
- 🍺 Booze
🍺 in real conversations
What does 🍺 mean when it's the whole text?
An invite, plain and simple — 'want to grab a drink?' sent with nothing else attached, because the emoji already does the asking. It also works solo as a toast, dropped under good news the way you'd raise an actual glass, no extra words required either way.
Does 🍺 always mean literal beer?
Pretty much, yes — unlike some drink emoji that drift into vibes and metaphor, 🍺 stays close to the actual thing: a real beer, a bar, a specific plan to go out. It reads casual by default, tied to happy hour and hanging out rather than anything dressed-up or symbolic.
What does 🍺 mean under a friend's good news?
A toast — 'this calls for a drink,' congratulating a promotion, a move, an exam finally passed. It's the celebratory version rather than the invite version, less 'let's hang out' and more 'you earned this, cheers,' even when nobody's actually clinking glasses together in the same room.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › drink
- Codepoints
U+1F37A- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:beer::beer_mug:Discord- Keywords
- alcohol, ale, bar, beer, booze, drink, drinking, drinks, mug, octoberfest, oktoberfest, pint, stein, summer
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍺 Beer Mug or 🕹️ Joystick?
Runs with a crowd
🍺 keeps company in oktoberfest emojis and party emojis and st. patrick's day emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.