Description
The Inebriati, also known as the Loyal Order of the Knights Tippler are a clandestine fringe organization bound by the creed that “humanity is better and more noble after very nearly two drinks, than at any other time.” They are rumoured to have been around for centuries, though no one knows exactly how long. Suffice to say, they’ve been complicit in all major world events, gently swaying from side to side in the background.
Notoriously secretive in their endeavors, only recently has more information come to light about this group of this influential and slightly intoxicated group of people. An accidental find from the annals of history has come to light; a student dairy sketch of the etchings of the elusive Inebriati challenge medallion, reproduced using modern techniques by the Bacchanal Mint.
Your official replica Inebriati coin is created by the Bacchanal Mint from the finest materials, 1.75″ in diameter and weighs over an ounce. Each coin comes in a protective cover with instructions.
The frontside features the Inebriati logo as sketched by J. Erasmus Whitmere in his Oxford University journals. Written in Latin is the group motto: There’s no accounting for tastes, flanked on each side by the Sumerian cuneiform symbol for beer. The backside pays homage to Whitmere and his contribution to bar-going history. It features a enamel filled visage taken from the only known daguerreotype of Whitmere and the Lucky 7s Tri-Via team, which ironically had eight members.
A well kept fraternal secret, no one outside the Inebriati has ever been awarded this medallion. The author of this website makes this information known after coming across the meticulously kept diaries of one Mr. J. Erasmus Whitmere in the stacks of Queens College Library, Oxford University. According to his diaries, Whitmerewas studying law, one of the three soft sciences taught at Oxford at the time. History and economics completed the course of study. These sciences were known informally as the “Way of Three” or Tri-Via in Latin.
“We walk’d down Brasenose Lane to Crown, a public House of some fame for its “Béor und Begegnes” (beer and gatherings) as wouldst call it our professors. The Bard himself was said to frequent its Draughts in his day. We also referr’d to Brasenose Lane as “the Tri Via”, as three of Oxford’s colleges wast found on that short jaunt, as was most of Oxford’s Braines.”
The Oxford Tri-Via students would break up into small groups like Whitmere’s “Lucky 7s” to test their knowledge of studies prior to examinations. Eventually with the application of enough beer, the Tri-Via groups began to compete against each other, hurling questions about law and the soft sciences about The Crown pub. This tradition is observed to this day in bars and pubs throughout the world, though the hard sciences of physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics are occasionally included.
“A man who I had seen on occasion, but never spoken to, slipp’d a Coin of unusual size and design, quite olde, into my hand.” Whitmere wrote in his student diary. “‘There is nay accounting for tastes,’ he remark’d upon viewing my tipple of choyse. ‘But we will keep our eyes upon thee. Methinks thou art , me tippler, prepared for the knightdom.'”
Accompanying this entry was a sketch of the front face of the old coin of unusual design. Unfortunately for posterity, Whitmere soon ceased his writings and observations about his interactions with the Knights Tippler save one last observation; Whitmere would later write that he considered his friends to be “a force for Good, with just enouf level of smashedness to make everything feel lovely.”
Whitmere is said to have become one of the greatest barristers of his time. Prior to entering the courtroom, rumor is that he would be observed drinking nearly, but not quite, two stiff drinks.