Working out how many kegs to buy for a wedding bar...

R.O.S.S.I said:
The only thing with using kegs is i'd be a bit miffed if we ended up opening a keg and it not getting drunk. I'm not sure how long they stay "fresh" for but I imagine the supplier will be coming to collect his equipment the following day and doing clean down so it will end up being wasted, unless we extended the hire on it and kept it at our house for it to be supped the next day.
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Save up a load of 4 pint milk cartons and fill them up with whatever is left open.
 
Mr Jack said:
Top tip: put a hip flask in your suit pocket if there's a church bit.
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I do.

To be honest if I'm being forced to go out and it's any place other than say Wetherspoons I tend to hip flask it these days anyway.

I'll buy a beer or two maybe, but mainly buy coke and top it up, I don't give a ****, I'm fed up of pubs charging £5+ for a pint of **** mass produced beer, or £10+ for a double.
 
there was a time when i too didnt go out without a hip flask. i have abused so many spirits now tho that there are not many i can stomach.

some pub prices are off the scale now, it is no wonder they are going under......... at the same time however i am under no illusion that they are struggling as well. its a vicious circle... pubs make less profit...... so have to put up prices.... which puts people off - or they buy less - so they make less profit.

all the while supermarket prices stay largely the same as in the mid 1990s (actually cheaper if you consider inflation).... great for me as i have always been more of a home entertainer, sucks for pubs.
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
Yeh he was saying it more along the lines of if he was running the bar that someone had hired him to provide for he would estimate for X amount as it would be extremely unprofessional for him to run out. Whereas with us, it doesn't really matter if we run out of some things later into the night and in my view isn't really much of a faux pas, considering its been free all day anyway.

The only thing with using kegs is i'd be a bit miffed if we ended up opening a keg and it not getting drunk. I'm not sure how long they stay "fresh" for but I imagine the supplier will be coming to collect his equipment the following day and doing clean down so it will end up being wasted, unless we extended the hire on it and kept it at our house for it to be supped the next day.
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Perhaps aim for the kegs to run out then I guess and switch to bottled beer and cans, you had the free quality drinks etc.. that was + there are still drinks available for people but you don't have the annoyance of having half a keg being sent back the next day essentially wasted.

A friend of mine did one in a big tent in a field, at around 11-12-ish the bar closed (in so far as the bar staff finished for the night but a keg was set up with a load of glasses next to it + a load of big plastic buckets full of beer bottles and ice were available for people to help themselves. There wasn't really a closing time for the party which was good, people carried on drinking till 3 or 4am.
 
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