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what's the formula for buying wine for parties?
Hosting a couples shower for 40ish people and I have no idea how much wine to buy.
We'll have beer and a choice of red or white. Does anyone know a formula of how much wine I should buy?
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Re: what's the formula for buying wine for parties?
I found this online:
- Buy red wine for 60% of the adults
- Buy white wine for 40% of the adults
- Buy beer for 20% of the adults
- Assume 1/3 bottle of wine per person
- Assume 4 bottles of beer per person
- Once you've made the calculation of how many bottles you need of red and white wine, and beer, round up to the nearest 1/2 case.
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It's a couples shower and I feel like half of the guests will drink beer and half will drink wine. I just don't even know where to start.
40 guests = 12 bottles of red, 12 bottles of white and 3 cases of beer?
Too much? Not enough?
Hi! How long is the event? When I used to work in catering a good formula for glassware drinks etc. was that during the first hour of the party each guest would get one drink, half would go back for a second, then plan for one drink per guest each additional hour.... so this is what I come up with based on a 4 hour event:
20 x 4.5 = 90 glasses of wine (usually there are 4.5 glasses of wine per bottle)
20 x 4.5 = 90 beers
so... I think your above estimates look pretty good.
HTH!