Too many people see drinking as little more than the pursuit of an alcoholic buzz, or social lubrication. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

From martinis to milkshakes, here are some the valley's sweetest, strongest (and strangest) drinks. Bottoms up! Talk about cups runnething over.

Dunk the bag, add sugar and sip, right? Not on your leaf, say these tea gurus Juanny Romero would be the last person to tell you she’s a tea guru, because she understands better than most people what that truly means: thousands of years of knowledge and tradition, painstakingly practiced, recorded and transmitted from expert to apprentice, again and again. But she’s certainly close.