I am having a party of 50 people, how much alcohol should I have? drinking games?

Question

I am throwing a bday party for my roommate and I, we are expecting around 50 people (ages 20-30). I need to know how much alcohol I should buy, whats a price range so I can figure out how much I should get? Also, any good party ideas, drinking games?

Answer 1

you may be better off getting a keg with that many people. You are providing the booze for that? I bet those people drink like fishes! I would charge a head seriously, booze is not cheap. But how to cheap out just buy big handles of vodka, rum and whiskey the cheap kind. Have orange juice and bottles of cola on hand. You are going to spend well over $300 dollars on booze. If you figure each person in that age range will probably be able to throw back at least 3-4 liquor drinks and 6+ beers each.

drinking games: beer pong, a hole the card drinking game, poker, never have I ever, caps

Answer 2

we are soooo crazy and stupid

Answer 3

Provide a 1/2 keg and put BYOB on the invitations.  People will bring what they like, and are less likely to exceed their limit if they pay for their own booze.  I wouldn't recommend drinking games unless you're letting everyone crash there and you're keeping keys...you wouldn't want an accident on your conscience if someone left when they'd had too much.  Just keep the tunes cranking, make plenty of food, and people will have a good time without getting trashed.

Answer 4

With my husband's family who are Russian and drink like....  Well, there's really no comparing...

We buy a bunch of bottles of beer, have lots of sodas, then we get those big plastic bottles of vodka (like 15 -20 bottles)  - the liter ones?

And they just do shots - we don't mix, we don't provide fruity drinks... (not that they want them)

Then everyone gets drunk, and everyone gets enough alcohol, but it doesn't cost a lot.

Before being with him, my friends and I would get a keg for beer - but make sure someone is in charge of it, cause people will spray each other with it, etc.

and then we'd make a big punch - we'd get some cheap vodka, make a hawwian fruit punch type thing (koolaid works good, too) and soak some fruit in some vodka overnight - then we'd slice up the fruit and put it in the punch and everyone would have a lot to drink and they could choose beer, or fruity.

Good luck, I hope someone else is bringing the food!