well-mulled

And her big dream is to endow a chair of literature at Columbia, which might have been a better scheme than installing a bar, for whereas she hopes the scribes will sit around discussing existentialism and the beauty of alexandrines, she forgets that when they are not writing they wish to discuss only dough and dolls, and that when they are well-mulled they tend to quarrel and put their fists through her windows.

The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2010