Bar Information

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Estimate 1 drink/person/hour

Not everyone will drink that, but most will and some will drink more, some not at all. This includes all drinks. You will want to profile your guests and determine what you think they will mostly be drinking. The amount of time drinking is approximately 5 hours. So use the estimation of 4-5 drinks/ guest.

Cocktail Hour is held around the pond garden and lasts about 1.5 . We generally serve a selection of wines – 2-3 total, a specialty cocktail or two, and keg beer. * Please limit the amount of kegs used at the pond bar. Everything will be moved down to the Apple House for dinner, and multiple full kegs are difficult to move and also makes the beer quite foamy. It is fine to get a few cases of specialty bottled beer, but we ask that you use mostly kegs in order to reduce the amount of recycling. A recycling surcharge may exist if excessive recycling is accumulated.

Here is a condensed list of amounts based on 100 guests below:

Cocktails – Estimate 1.5 cocktails/person

 

Cocktails for 100 guests during cocktail hour:

150 drinks

4 handles of liquor

6 half-gallon cartons or 11 liter bottles of mixer

 

Beer – Estimate 1 beer/hour/beer drinker

Keep in mind; most people will have a cocktail or two and maybe a glass of wine with dinner. So even heavy beer drinkers may not only be drinking beer!

“Half barrel” = full keg – 15.5 gallons ~ 150 pints

“Quarter barrel” = pony keg – 7.75 gallons ~ 75 pints

 

1 full size  keg is generally enough for 100 guests. You may want an additional pony keg as back up if your group is a heavy beer drinking crowd.

 

Wine – Estimate 1 glass/hour/wine drinker

During cocktail hour and hot summer days more white wine is drunk. Red wine is primarily served at dinner.

Wine

 

For 100 guests 6-7 cases total

 

Champagne

 

For champagne toast for 100 guests – 1 cases