Drink Like a Pisces: 6 Beverages For the Daydreamers
If you’ve ever had a best friend or partner who’s a Pisces, the mere word “Pisces” probably just evoked a protective impulse or sudden softening of the heart. To know and love a Pisces is to have been known and loved in the deepest possible way: to the darkest depths only eyeless fishes have ever traversed. Occupying the final position in the zodiac calendar, Pisces people are the cycle’s mystics, capable of absorbing and processing the complicated emotions of every other sign. Having “all the feels” is a phrase most definitely forged in a Pisces spirit.
But enough with sensitivity for a minute—can I get an amen that a sign represented by fishes is also a water sign? (Sidebar about how this Taurus author is overly obsessed with zodiac logic.) Represented by fishes moving in opposite directions, there is natural intuitiveness built into those born under a Pisces sun. Like water, Pisces people can seep into the cracks of anyone’s experience, actually feeling what they feel for an experience that goes beyond empathy to full-on sympathy. Pisces, it must be said, could feel sympathy for the devil. (Neither Keith Richards nor Mick Jagger is a Pisces, sadly, but yes I checked.)
In a world that can certainly use some peace, love, and understanding, (Elvis Costello also not a Pisces, dammit,) we could all do with being a little more like Pisces right now. In that spirit, here are 6 beverages perfect for evoking empathy, sympathy, or just good old-fashioned daydreaming.
I couldn’t help but think of gose for my Pisces brethren and sistren, because it’s a beer that kind of tastes like tears. (Salt, in fact, is a prime component of these zesty brews, whether by water source or by addition.) And there’s nobody better than a Pisces to comfort you while you cry over your beer, no matter what or who has upset you, or even if the tears are happy ones. It’s also a beer that keeps to the lighter side of ABV, and Pisces surely don’t need any help from alcohol to open their emotional floodgates. Turns out Portland, Maine’s Rising Tide Brewing must agree with me on this, since they offer a beer called Pisces: a classic gose made with locally sourced seawater.
In previous Zodiac installments I have chosen to name a country or region in honor of a particular sign, but here I break with that tradition, because for Pisces, it must be done. For those not familiar with the movie “Sideways,” you’re going to want to go ahead and watch that now. (I’ll wait…) Great, so now you understand when Miles waxes rhapsodic about his love for Pinot Noir—its thin-skinned, delicate, temperamental nature—he is speaking of himself. I have no proof that the character is a Pisces, but as a highly sensitive writer prone to poetic waxing, it’s a safe assumption. Following “Sideways,” Pinot Noir will forevermore be the spirit wine for all sensitive creatures. I also give you the most Piscean of Pinots for the occasion: Alma Rosa’s La Encantada Pinot Noir, a bright, California beauty grown on fossilized algae sediment, whose vineyard is called “The Enchanted.” How Pisces is that?
Ascribing what is essentially a flavorless spirit to Pisces is no diss on my part, less you gin champions think that’s the case. On the contrary, its vodka’s chameleon-like nature, its ability to amplify everything else it touches, makes it very Pisces-like in my book. Vodka can get along with everyone, from olive juice to cranberry juice, giving others the support they need to make their flavors known. Plus here’s a perfectly Piscean vodka named for two creatives, a designer and a pianist: Vera Wang x Chopin Vodka. (Again, neither a Pisces, and now it’s just starting to feel like a conspiracy. I blame Scorpio.)
When you’re as deep in your feelings as Pisces usually are, that can result in a delicate stomach. Milk is the original Xanax, capable of calming us from literally seconds outside the womb, but for those whose stomachs evolved to not agree with milk after a certain age, A2 Milk Company is here for you. A2 refers to a type of bovine milk protein that is easier to digest than the A1 protein found in most commercial milk. Anyone who believes that milk and sea dwellers don’t naturally belong together, I give you lobster mac and cheese as evidence to the contrary. Or Filet-o-Fish.
Like fish, rice is essentially aquatic in nature, growing in partially submerged paddies. Sake is wine made from rice, and, to reemphasize a previous point, also has a taste not unlike tears. It also happens to be the perfect pairing for sushi, the Pisciest food of all. In this portable format, WeSake has provided the ideal beverage for meeting your Pisces friend on the beach or in the park while they wistfully reminisce about getting their heart broken in Japan that one time…
Frozen Fishbowl courtesy of Tipsy Bartender
There’s no “official” cocktail known as a Fishbowl, but that doesn’t mean that everyone hasn’t had one at some point in their lives. Besides being a drink named after fish, and being a drink meant to be shared—a very Pisces thing to do—creating a fishbowl cocktail is a matter of intuition more than anything else, which is also Pisces-approved. (Start with blue curaçao, and you can’t go wrong…)
For more Zodiac content see Drink Like an Aquarius, Drink Like a Capricorn, or visit our sister site Cheese Professor for 5 Gifts for Your Cheese Loving Pisces Friends.