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Drink calculator?
I have found a lot of alcohol calculators, but am having trouble figuring out how much I'll need in the way of mixers. Sweet and Sour, Cokes, whatever else is a common mixer. I'm thinking for my 100 person guest list, about 200 beers, 2 bottles each of rum, whiskey, tequila, vodka, and about 8 bottles of wine. That's about what I've come up with, knowing my guests. I can't figure out how much I'll need for mixers, though. HELP!! 
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Re: Drink calculator?
[QUOTE]The standard are coke, diet coke, sprite, ginger ale, tonic, club soda, pineapple, OJ, cranberry. What does your family drink? 2 bottles of vodka would not even last cocktail hour with my group of friends.
Posted by lyndausvi[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>haha, i can only think of like two of my friends that drink vodka. i think i underestimated on the whiskey, though, and i KNOW i underestimated on the beer.
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- 30 beers per hour [120 total for the evening]
- 30 wine servings per hour (which means 6 bottles per hour, because you get 6 glasses per bottle) [24 bottles totals for the evening]
- 30 hard drinks per hour (which means 2 bottles of liquor per hour, since you get about 20 drinks out of a 1 liter bottle). This one is harder to total for the whole evening because you don't know what kinds of liquor people will be drinking, so I would stay on the safe side and budget at least 1 bottle of each kind per hour, and more if your crowd leans toward one type or another. So, that means a total of 4 bottles of vodka, 4 of whiskey, 4 of rum, 4 of tequila; for my crowd, I might finetune by deleting one of the rums and tequilas and adding more vodka and whiskey.
- and at least some mixers for those 30 hard drinks for those who aren't drinking straight liquor (if you assume average 3 oz per mixed drink, that means you should have about 90 ounces total per hour - oj, tonic, sodas, etc. [A total of 360 ounces for the evening]) And then round up on these if you have many people who will not be drinking alcohol at all - maybe up to 140 ounces per hour [a total of 560 oz for the evening].
And THEN, to be safe, I would tack on an extra 25% of EVERYTHING, because you can't plan perfectly.
[QUOTE]Here's some math that might help you: We're having a four-hour evening reception for 90 people. We'll have a mix of complete non-alcoholic drinkers and fairly heavy drinkers, with everyone else in-between. So, we're budgeting one drink per person per hour, or 4 drinks total. Based on everyone's collective tastes, we think 2/3 of those will be beer or wine and the other 1/3 cocktails. So that means we need, on average: - 30 beers per hour [120 total for the evening] - 30 wine servings per hour (which means 6 bottles per hour, because you get 6 glasses per bottle) [24 bottles totals for the evening] - 30 hard drinks per hour (which means 2 bottles of liquor per hour, since you get about 20 drinks out of a 1 liter bottle). This one is harder to total for the whole evening because you don't know what kinds of liquor people will be drinking, so I would stay on the safe side and budget at least 1 bottle of each kind per hour, and more if your crowd leans toward one type or another. So, that means a total of 4 bottles of vodka, 4 of whiskey, 4 of rum, 4 of tequila; for my crowd, I might finetune by deleting one of the rums and tequilas and adding more vodka and whiskey. - and at least some mixers for those 30 hard drinks for those who aren't drinking straight liquor (if you assume average 3 oz per mixed drink, that means you should have about 90 ounces total per hour - oj, tonic, sodas, etc. [A total of 360 ounces for the evening]) And then round up on these if you have many people who will not be drinking alcohol at all - maybe up to 140 ounces per hour [a total of 560 oz for the evening]. And THEN, to be safe, I would tack on an extra 25% of EVERYTHING, because you can't plan perfectly.
Posted by casyme[/QUOTE]
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</div><div>thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! thats pretty much exactly what i needed!! (someone to do the math and spell it out for me) haha.</div>
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[QUOTE]casyme has some good suggestions. Although IME people drink 2-3 drinks per hour for the first 1-2 hours and then 1-2 drinks per hours after that.
Posted by lyndausvi[/QUOTE]
<div>good point, people do start off strong, usually.</div>
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