How to Hold a Beer Bust
- 1). Determine your budget for the beer bust. Decide if you will be paying for this completely out-of-pocket, or if you're going to try to recoup at least some of the cost by charging people a cover at the door. The more people that will be attending, the more it will cost in terms of beer, food and supplies like plates and napkins.
- 2). Decide who will be invited. The bigger that you make the beer bust, the more it will cost. It also opens up the potential for more problems as you'll have more people drinking heavily who will need to be watched to prevent any negative incidents from happening. Limiting the size of the party in both numbers and to people who you know can help minimize the chances of something bad from happening.
- 3). Choose which games will be played at the beer bust, and how it will be structured. Decide whether there will be organized teams or teams picked on the spot. Two popular games at beer busts are beer pong and flip cups. Beer pong involves setting up six cups partially filled with beer on each side of a table. Players on opposing teams take turns tossing ping-pong balls into the other team's cups; when they sink a ball into the cup, a player on the other team must drink the beer out of the cup and remove the cup from the table. The first team to hit all of the other team's cups wins. With flip cups, you fill cups with the same amount of beer. Starting at one end of the table, players must drink the beer out of the cup, then place the cup back on the table so that it hangs over the edge, then flip the cup over so that it lands on the table upside-down. Once the player has achieved this, the next person in line can drink prior to flipping their cup. The first team to finish wins.
- 4). Hire a band or DJ to work the party. You may decide to skip this, depending on your budget and any space limitations that you have to deal with.
- 5). Keep plenty of water and soda on hand. It may violate the spirit of a beer bust, but the water can rehydrate people who have been drinking beer. Make sure that you have plenty of food for your guests to eat as well.
- 6). Determine how you will handle any party-goers who get excessively rowdy. You can hire people to work security, but you may not have the money for that. Monitor everyone at the party, but especially keep an eye on people who you know cause problems when they get drunk. If anyone begins to get out of hand, cut them off from drinking. Offer them some food and soda or water. If there is a conflict between guests, separate them, and if necessary, ask them to leave. It can vary by person, but generally, the more intoxicated people become, the harder they become to control. Just removing them from the situation may be the best way to resolve a conflict.
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