How much alcohol?

lgsdesigner

I am having around 40 guests, and cannot for the life of me figure out how much alcohol to provide.

I want to have wine (both red and white), a domestic beer choice and an import beer choice and also a fun beachy cocktail drink.

How much? Any calculators/tools/ways to figure this out? TIA!

ShallowSeas

An average bottle of wine has about 5 glasses (5 oz each) in it. So I would assume that all of your guests who drink alcohol will have a couple glasses of wine.

As far as beers, if you are having kegs you can use this calculator
http://www.kegerators.com/beer-calculator.php

If you are serving bottles, then I would assume a couple bottles of beer per person.

As for the cocktail drink, I would have at least one per person. Not everyone will drink it, but its better to have too many drinks as opposed to too few.

theartistformerlyknownas

http://www.thealcoholcalculator.com

sjuhawkz

A friend who had a wedding asked a liquor store for estimate, and the store also bought back what was unopened. Maybe see what local stores will do that? In that case also better to have more than not enough. 

cmpenney88

http://www.bevmo.com/Misc/PartyPlanner.aspx Great website to figure out alcohol!