How much alcohol do we need to buy?

Re: How much alcohol do we need to buy?

• Catwoman708 member

  

  April 2010

  If you want to ensure you have plenty, and don't mind if you have leftover booze, I'd plan on 1 alcoholic drink per hour, per guest.  The light drinkers and heavy drinkers usually even out.  This is assuming you also have plenty of non alcoholic beverages, and a meal/food. 
  
  Assuming average drinkers with a variety of tastes, I'd count on 1/2 the total alchol in liquor, 1/4 in wine, 1/4 in beer.  One bottle of wine serves 4-6 glasses, and 1 oz alchol = 1 serving. So for serving 100 guests alcohol for 3 hours:
  
  Wine: 25 guests X 1 X 3 hours = 75 glasses of wine (12-15 bottles total should be plenty, assorted varieties).
  
  Beer:  25 guests X 1 X 3 hours = 75 beers, which is roughly 3 cases of cans or bottles.  A pony keg is about 80 servings.
  
  Liquor: 50 guests X 1 X 3 hours = 150 oz of alcohol or roughly 4.5 one liter bottles of alcohol (1 liter = approx 33 ounces). 
  
  For light to moderate drinkers, this might be overkill.  For heavy drinkers and a long reception, it might not be enough. 
  
  What I'd do is buy a liter sized (or larger if you want extra) bottle each of Jack, Rum, Champagne, and Vodka, make up a batch of each signature drink, and let them drink on those until the batches run out (if they run out). 

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