Originally posted by Zerixar:

so you can brew mead into various useful potions essentially, and then just right click it or hotbar key it to use it like food. however, today i accidentally found out that if you left click while holding the tankard you'll also consume a use of whatever mead you're carrying.

is there any point/benefit to doing it this way? like taking the time to equip and drink it from a tankard boosts the effect or something? or is it just a bit of roleplay functionality? obviously if i'm dying to a poison dot i'm not going to take a second to wait for the loading bar of equipping my tankard and then take a swig, i'm going to just directly click and use the medium healing mead i'm carrying, UNLESS the tankard gives some bonus i'm not aware of.

anybody know?

I play it on xbox one since I don't have a pc sadly. And it's useful only cause you can't move when opening inventory(on console) and you need a health potion. Otherwise I see no other purpose