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Stocking your own bar: How to estimate how much of light/reg beer

hordolhordol member
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We are doing wine and beer for our wedding. A local liquor store was having a huge sale so we bought our wine yesterday (we got 96 bottles of quality wine for just over $800. Woot for BOGOs!!!) but we held off on beer because we have a little over 2 months yet and beer can go skunky if it sits around too long. I'm still trying to get an idea of what kinds to buy. I stopped into Costco yesterday to ask and the guy wasn't super helpful (it was actually kind of disappointing, haha, just kept telling us we better be careful because it's graduation season and we might not get what we want and he had no idea what they would have in stock at that time, which I don't blame him for but I would think Costco follows some sort of seasonal trend to what they stock. Anyway...)

We are thinking about offering 4 different kinds of beer: 1 light and 3 crafts. What percentage of our stock should the light be? I don't drink it myself but I know that light beer is popular. Also, the way I look at it, we'd want to have a little more stock of the light beer than any of the others because if someone likes crafts, they have 3 choices, if they like light they only have one choice. (Example, 5 or 6 cases of light, 4 cases of each of the other kinds?)

What do you think? We asked at the liquor store yesterday and they said it just depends on our crowd, but I'm not really sure what most of the guests prefer. 

For those that stocked your own bar, how did you go about deciding your ratios of beer?

(Another good point the liquor store guy gave me is that people aren't going to come to my wedding expecting to have every drink under the sun available. They are going to drink what we have and be just fine with that. People aren't going to say, "I can't believe they don't have _______! This is a terrible party!" Haha it was nice to hear that, a good reminder when my bridal brain goes crazy. :D)
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Re: Stocking your own bar: How to estimate how much of light/reg beer

  • teachmegs1teachmegs1 member
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    Someone else posted something similar about 10-15 threads down, she had liquor and other things in there too.  I suggested to her on the beer avenue to look into getting a keg. Maybe your light beer would be good to buy in a keg, full, 1/2 or 1/4 keg and then buy 3-4 varieties of the craft beer. I can tell you that most beer drinkers have a preference of what they like, however are more apt. to settle for something else if their top choice isn't offered, or you ran out.  Wine drinkers and some liquor drinkers may not do that, but beer drinkers, almost always.  I'm a bartender at a Mexican place that serves nothing but mex. beer. When someone walks in to order a Bud Light and I say, "Sorry, we only have Carona Light," they almost always take it.
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  • hordolhordol member
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    I will check that thread out, thanks! Our venue doesn't allow kegs. For my beer, I'm planning on offering a light, an IPA, a wheat, and either an amber or seasonal beer and that should hit most beer preferences. There might not be someone's exact favorite brew, but if their favorite brew happens to be an IPA I know they will probably not mind the IPA we have. FI and I love our craft beers so we will only be picking great ones, but since neither of us drink light beer and don't have very much insight into how popular light beer is, we are having a hard time figuring that part out.
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  • teachmegs1teachmegs1 member
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    Budlight and Coors are the two most ordered "light" beers that I get. Even though we don't carry either. I'd go with one of those. I think my dad plans on buying Coors for the light option at our wedding. Good luck with it all. =)
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  • hordolhordol member
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    Thanks! I already know that we will probably go with michelob golden light because when I talked to the liquor store they said that was the most popular around here, but I'm trying to figure out what ratio of light to regular I should have cause he wasn't super helpful in that area.
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  • csuavecsuave member
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    The four types of beer you mentioned sound like you will have something for everyone.  Unless you know your crowd is really into craft beer I would say don't under estimate the popularity of light beer.  A friend that did the alcohol for his wedding had the light go much faster than the other option (both very common brands).  You might want to consider 1/3 light beer....however I also agree with PP that if one kind runs out a beer drinker will just switch to what is available. 
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