The phrase "communal drinking" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the act of sharing or consuming drinks in a group or community setting. Example: In many African cultures, communal drinking is an important social ritual, where people come together to share traditional drinks and bond over conversation and music.
Which is one way of saying the parties in the beer garden are about celebrating not the finer points of German cuisine, but rather the traditions of the community: communal dining, communal drinking and plenty of accordion-and-tuba music.
They also have rites for vision and divination, sometimes with the aid of a vision-inducing communal drinking ceremony.
In the very earliest days of communal drinking, pubs used to be little more than crude huts where people huddled together for a drink and a chat.
You're already drunk, trying to avoid whatever parade, bar crawl, or other dumb communal drinking event your friends (who aren't even Irish) are spamming your Facebook feed with.
The neighbor in charge of the rural, communal drinking water well knows it's being contaminated by a party that was his previous employer and expects to be hired back by his old boss.
We spent hours in the communal house drinking nijiamanch, tended by women constantly squeezing the pulp by hand.
I had expected an enclosed, secure ward, but it was really relaxed with most patients spending time in the communal areas drinking tea and chatting to each other.
The raised platform, called a kat, sits under the grape arbors in many courtyards here for communal dining, tea drinking, praying and sleeping, and Mr. Najimudinov was perched there, resplendent his pale blue robe, white beard and turban.
And when assembling your negotiation team, consider bringing along someone who drinks so that your team can derive the relationship-building benefits of communal and ritual drinking.
"We really like making tea for the meeting because it's the most communal way of drinking," Ms. Mittelmann said, sounding a theme for the evening.
In a culture where communal eating and drinking is indicative of social equality, Conrad's refusal to eat and drink with his men becomes a mark of his social distinction.
