Since the big New Year’s Eve night is on a Wednesday this year, we figure the previous and following weekends should really extend into the week from either side to form an amorphous ten day-long blob of non-stop partying.

To keep us going throughout those marathon days and nights, Listicles has gone looking for some drink lists to keep the imbibing interesting and inventive. Here, then, are the fruits of our research, the Top 4 Holiday Drink Lists.

• 6 New Year’s Punch Recipes: The stylish drinkers at New York magazine asked some of the city’s preeminent mixologists to offer truly tantalizing drink recipes for New Year’s Eve revelers hoping to outclass other parties with especially potent and particular concoctions. The resulting listicle is enticing, certainly, but with difficult ingredients like Earl Grey-infused vermouth and pineapple-infused Brandy scaring us away from the most exotic recipes, we found our poison at the bottom of a punch bowl full of Sevilla 75.

• 10 Affordable Holiday Party Pours: Over at Forbes their cheap holiday wine list dabbles in reds and whites the world over, from France and California to New Zealand and Austria. We’re especially impressed with their opening suggestion, a 2006 white from the Lieb Family Cellars on the North Fork of Long Island ($17), which we tried last week in the name of locoholism (localism + alcoholism) and greatly enjoyed.

• The 11 Manliest Cocktails in the World (via COED Magazine): This list from Holy Taco is a mix of seriously awesome drinks like the Rusty Nail, Tequila Sunrise, Sazerac, even the Irish Car Bomb, and some awful things: Kentucky Tea (moonshine and water), Jageraide (Gatorade and Jagermeister), Nuclear Waste (Vodka and orange soda). Tellingly, our favorite thing about this list is the picture that goes with their number 6, Gin and Juice:

• 12 of the Tastiest, Most Potent Seasonal Brews: If you can’t be fussed to mix a drink, source a wine or strap a perm-wig to your snooping dogg, why not pick up a pack (or a few packs) of these beers recommended by the more tasteful menfolk at Asylum. Office favorites include the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale and the Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout:

So no matter what you’re drinking (unless it’s something not in this listicle, in which case we don’t much care for you), have a great New Year’s party season.