How much booze to get for house party?

[friedaweed]

That's a lot of people to provide drinks for. We have had similar numbers for a bash but we're Northern and turning up empty handed is a nono. We've generally ended up with more booze than we started with on big party occasions and numbers like that.

Generally we feed folk, they bring their own drink but we make sure there's surplus.

If it was me and I had those sort of numbers coming I'd get a couple of boxes of drinkable red wine like a good Malbec or a Claret, A couple of boxes of crisp white like a viognier or sav blanc, couple of cases of fizz and about 4 boxes decent beers, a litre of gin and a litre of voddy and a load of mixers. All done in one hit at the supermarket that had the 25% off six offer on. .

Food's easy.

Large veg chilli or lasagne, large chicken curry, shit load of rice, flat breads and lots of finger foods like wings, dips, savouries and a hedgehog pineapple cheese centrepiece and of course you'll have to break into the special tin of red salmon you keep for when guest call in Put that on nice Barmcakes on a first to arrive first served basis and then the late arrivals will hear from the early arrivals that whilst there's not much food left now you did push the boat out early doors.


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[Elpenor]

Six tins in a carrier bag and make sure they never leave your hand or immediate vicinity at least.

Someone I knew went to a house party on a Saturday night, then went back the next day to collect the undrunk cans he’d left in their fridge.

 

[Crispy]

Yeah you need to lay some on, regardless of etiquette. What tends to happen these days is that people think to themselves "ooh, I'm getting on a bit, can't drink like I used to, I'll just bring a four pack" blast through it all in a couple of hours and then find themselves in front of the fridge asking "uh, is any of this booze public?"

 

[story]

I made this thread in 2007.....

The Perfect Party

We love giving parties, and have made some very famous ones over the years. I started throwing house parties in my teens, and have had anything up to four a year, every year since then. We had one year off, the year after someone decided to flyer Brixton with our address, and we ended up with a...

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[Spymaster]

How much booze would you get in if you had, say, 30-40 people coming round for a bit of a party?

10 six packs or 5 cases of beer, a case (6) of red, a case of white, and the guests bring their own stuff if they're into spirits or fizz.

 

[A380]

A single 75cl bottle of dry sherry obvs.

 

[The39thStep]

That's a lot of people to provide drinks for. We have had similar numbers for a bash but we're Northern and turning up empty handed is a nono. We've generally ended up with more booze that we started with big party occasions and numbers like that.

Generally we feed folk, they bring their own drink but we make sure there's surplus.

If it was me and I had those sort of numbers coming I'd get a couple of boxes of drinkable red wine like a good Malbec or a Claret, A couple of boxes of crisp white like a viognier or sav blanc, couple of cases of fizz and about 4 boxes decent beers, a litre of gin and a litre of voddy and a load of mixers. All done in one hit at the supermarket that had the 25% off six offer on. .

Food's easy.

Large veg chilli or lasagne, large chicken curry, shit load of rice, flat breads and lots of finger foods like wings, dips, savouries and a hedgehog pineapple cheese centrepiece and of course you'll have to break into the special tin of red salmon you keep for when guest call in Put that on nice Barmcakes on a first to arrive first served basis and then the late arrivals will hear from the early arrivals that whilst there's not much food left now you did push the boat out early doors.


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Good point about Northern culture there

 

[Tanya1982]

None. The thought of having thirty or forty people drinking and everything else, in my house, is a terrible one. The mess, the damage, the inability to leave the party and go home. Cancel it! House parties are great fun - when it’s someone else’s house.

 

[Pickman's model]

Twice as much as the most you think you'll need.

A standard bottle of wine is about six standard glasses. About six beers per person. Spirits, one bottle per three people. And only two or three types.

a standard bottle of wine is 750ml. 750/6 is 125, which is a small glass of wine in any pub. no one's going to be restricting themselves to that, let's call if four glasses to be nearer the mark. especially if you're recognising reality more with your one 700ml bottle of spirits per three people.

 

[Pickman's model]

None. The thought of having thirty or forty people drinking and everything else, in my house, is a terrible one. The mess, the damage, the inability to leave the party and go home. Cancel it! House parties are great fun - when it’s someone else’s house.

the trick then, AnnO'Neemus, is to engineer a situation where your party is round at tanya's

 

[editor]

Hand out drugs and they'll soon forget about booze*. Probably cheaper in the long term too.

*depending on the durg, natch

 

[editor]

I made this thread in 2007.....

The Perfect Party

We love giving parties, and have made some very famous ones over the years. I started throwing house parties in my teens, and have had anything up to four a year, every year since then. We had one year off, the year after someone decided to flyer Brixton with our address, and we ended up with a...

www.urban75.net

"Spirits - A party is a great opportunity to use up all that old left over foreign stuff, Just leave it out on a table with plastic cups and plenty of mixers."

I had a recent impromptu late late party a while back and I was delighted that the drugged up hordes had decided to dig deep into some well ancient bottles of spirits.

Incredibly, they completely missed the full bottle of Czech absinthe what was lurking behind some undistinguished wine. Probably for the best, in retrospect.

 

[og ogilby]

Speaking of food... wondering how much food to lay on too.

If you provide enough booze, you'll have to double up on the amount of food as pissed people usually spew up and then they are good to start scoffing again.

 

[friedaweed]

Good point about Northern culture there

I had my 50th at home. We ended up with so much booze left at ours by our guests I had to store it in the garage in boxes I got from Majestic. I still have about 20 unopened bottles of spirits some 4 years later, most of them Scotch.

On the other hand though I had some posh 'Cheshire' friends round for a BBQ in the summer. It went on a lot longer than expected and we even sent the teens on a co-op run but they still drank me dry of red wine. When I suggested coffe at gone 2am my mates wife declared that she was going to stick with the wine, when I told her she'd had it all she requested a rum with her coffee.

A week later a mystery box of very lush Sunday Times Wine appeared on my doorstep.

 

[Chz]

I alternate. Every other gathering, I lay on a spread of nice beers, wine, etc. Then for the next one I lay out all the cheap shit that people brought with them last time and abandoned to drink the nice stuff that I'd laid out. I probably still have a couple 6-packs of Carling somewhere from last time.

 

[spitfire]

In my peak raving days we went through prodigous amounts of cans, cheap vodka and other stuff but once someone brought a bottle of unbranded supermarket gin. Literally a white label that said GIN.

It lasted the next 2 years without anyone touching it and we used to have 10+ people drugs monsters back for up to 36 hours.

When we moved out it was still there. I miss it.

 

[bellaozzydog]

People who bring utterly shit booze that they don't drink cos they're busy drinking better stuff brought by other people? Shooting's too good.

Always check the oven and washing machine at house parties Some blagger always sidelines the good grog and salts it away in kitchen nooks and crannies

 

[Numbers]

That's a lot of people to provide drinks for. We have had similar numbers for a bash but we're Northern and turning up empty handed is a nono. We've generally ended up with more booze that we started with big party occasions and Numbers likes that.

Right on brother.

 

[friedaweed]

Always check the oven and washing machine at house parties Some blagger always sidelines the good grog and salts it away in kitchen nooks and crannies

My sister keeps it in her handbag.

 

[friedaweed]

Right on brother.

Oh yeah and add a bottle of rum to my earlier list for these young sophisticated folk.

 

[spitfire]

Always check the oven and washing machine at house parties Some blagger always sidelines the good grog and salts it away in kitchen nooks and crannies

fucksakes. Ssh!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Six tins in a carrier bag and make sure they never leave your hand or immediate vicinity at least.

This is very true. I remember being at a house party in my yoot and put my tinny down to chat to someone and when I picked it back up to have another gulp I got a mouth full of lager and fag ash.

 

[RubyToogood]

Personally I think it's quite nice to lay on one thing like mulled wine or mulled cider (you can hire an urn for this) rather than trying to cover all the bases. But I'm not one of those people that only drink one specific thing so maybe don't ask me.

 

[pbsmooth]

This is very true. I remember being at a house party in my yoot and put my tinny down to chat to someone and when I picked it back up to have another gulp I got a mouth full of lager and fag ash.

have you even lived if you've never done this?

 

[Tanya1982]

Good point about Northern culture there

In terms of what? I’m southern, and I don’t turn up empty handed. Even if I’m just going to have a daytime cup of tea with someone I’ll take something like a cake we can share, or a book I thought they’d like, or whatever - a magazine or flowers I’ve picked up on the way, something for their kid, even a little joke present. How is that a Northern thing?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

In terms of what? I’m southern, and I don’t turn up empty handed. Even if I’m just going to have a daytime cup of tea with someone I’ll take something like a cake we can share, or a book I thought they’d like, or whatever - a magazine or flowers I’ve picked up on the way, something for their kid, even a little joke present. How is that a Northern thing?

I thought you were going to say you’d take your own teabag then for a second.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

This is very true. I remember being at a house party in my yoot and put my tinny down to chat to someone and when I picked it back up to have another gulp I got a mouth full of lager and fag ash.

We've all been there.

What's worse was at a party I went to someone was quite sick. In the vomit was fag buts from all the booze he'd necked and hadn't noticed.

 

[The39thStep]

In terms of what? I’m southern, and I don’t turn up empty handed. Even if I’m just going to have a daytime cup of tea with someone I’ll take something like a cake we can share, or a book I thought they’d like, or whatever - a magazine or flowers I’ve picked up on the way, something for their kid, even a little joke present. How is that a Northern thing?

Have you had a DNA test?

 

[Tanya1982]

I thought you were going to say you’d take your own teabag then for a second.

How did you know that?

I only normally drink Twinings decaf Earl Grey, which most people and places don’t have (even if they’ve got decaf or Earl Grey, they almost never have both in one teabag), so I do usually carry around a few bags in my bag. Rather than inconveniencing people by being demanding, I’m happy to just provide my own.

 

[A380]

Hand out drugs and they'll soon forget about booze*. Probably cheaper in the long term too.

*depending on the durg, natch

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