A is the traditional drinking horn

Drinking horn

A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity especially in Thrace and the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic...

 in Georgian drinking culture

Drinking culture

Drinking culture refers to the customs and practices associated with the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Although alcoholic beverages and social attitudes toward drinking vary around the world, nearly every civilization has independently discovered the processes of brewing beer, fermenting...

, typically made from ram or goat horns, sometimes also from bull horns.

During a formal dinner (supra

Supra (feast)

A Supra is a traditional Georgian feast and an important part of Georgian social culture. There are two types of Supra: a festive supra , called a Keipi, and a sombre supra , called a Kelekhi that is always held after burials.- Etymology :In Georgian, "supra" means "table-cloth"...

) Georgians propose a toast, led by a toastmaster (tamada

Tamada

A tamada is the toastmaster at a Georgian Supra or at a Russian wedding, corresponding to the symposiarch at the Greek symposion or the thyle at the Anglo-Saxon sumbel....

) who sets the topic of each round of toasting. Georgians will toast parents first, as they value them above all else. Toasts are made with either wine or brandy, toasting with beer is considered an insult.