Alcohol Question

Skyjewell23 · February 2012

If i'm planning on having 150-170 guests above drinking age. How many cases of wine would you suggest? (a case has 12 bottles). How many kegs? (170 servings per keg)
The reception is from 7:00-11:30pm

My dad thinks I should get more wine then beer, but i'm iffy on that.

littlemoments324 · February 2012

as soon as I can get ahold of FI, I will let you know. He works with booze! haha

littlemoments324 · February 2012

Ok so FI says for a guestlist of 170, you should get 6 cases of wine (even if the cases have 1.5liter bottles or 750mL bottles) & 2 kegs.

bridetobe71412 · February 2012

I think I read somewhere that you should calculate doing one drink per person for every hour of your reception. So for yours, it would be 150 drinks, times 4.5 hours = 675 ( that's for the low end of 150 people). You know your guests better than we do, but I'd assume that that's probably a safe estimate (some will drink more, some will drink less).

As for deciding between wine and beer, I know for my family wine would be preferable. Do most of your guests drink wine or beer?

ginadog · February 2012

http://www.evite.com/pages/party/drink-calculator.jsp

Here's a drink calculator. I'd use all of the above suggestions as well as this calculatro to get a range. Are they close at all?

Skyjewell23 · February 2012

Sorry ladies I just got back from working out!

6 cases of win just seems like so much, but knowing my family and friends we will probably need that much.

That website says this

Drinks Needed
	375 Bottle(s)/Can(s) of Beer Pretty close to what little moments said....	75 Bottle(s) of Wine

Elinetrouwt · February 2012

Are you getting them somewhere where you can return unused bottles? In that case, better to err on the save side, no?

BmoreBride311 · February 2012

It also depends if you are offering other types of alcohol and if you're doing a champagne toast or some other kind of toast where everyone automatically is given a drink by the wait staff. Just keep that kind of thing in mind, b/c a lot of those drinks don't even get finished.

LADY324 · February 2012

Well in a small bottle of wine there are about 4 glasses to a bottle. So 75 bottles would be about 300 glasses of wine. Which equals out to be less then 2 glasses of wine per person. However not everyone will drink wine. But I know myself and my friends 2 of us can very easily put down 1 bottle of wine. I would rather over estimate then under estimate the last thing you want to do is run out of alcohol. I think you need way more than 2 kegs I had 2 kegs for a BBQ at my house last summer that only had 50 people. 2 kegs for that amount of people is not a lot at all. Then again I must just hang out with drunks and we were playing beer pong which tends to go through a lot of beer quick. I would ask your venue and see what they suggest. Any left over wine I would love to stock up in my wine fridge at home

NIKKIANDTYE · February 2012

We suggest 2 cases of wine and a case and 1/2 of non-alcoholic cider and 2 kegs of beer.

NIKKIANDTYE · February 2012

FI changed his mine he says you should get 5 cases 0f wine and 2 kegs of beer

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