Alcohol is read in dreams as escape and loosened control — a wish to relax, forget or celebrate, or a worry about losing your grip. Being drunk is usually linked to letting go of restraint or to saying what is normally held back. Watching someone else drink too much points to concern for them, or to a habit around you that feels unsteady. Refusing a drink is read as holding on to clarity and to your own limits. The image describes a feeling, not a judgement, and it can help to ask what the dream wanted to escape from or to celebrate.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.