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After reading Lifehacker’s piece on stocking your bar for $100, I figured I’d put in my two cents; except with a more specific goal. The focus of this list is a college party, nothing too large, 20-25 people. College parties are about a couple of things, getting drunk (hopefully you aren’t driving) and having fun. Usually these two go hand in hand. Variety of alcohol at a college party isn’t very important, quality isn’t even that important. You don’t want to drink the best (you’re broke college students) but you don’t want to drink the worst (you’re smart enough to get into college).
*Note: Prices reflect 1.75L
Essentials:
Rum: $18-21 (Captain Morgan, Sailor Jerry’s, Bacardi)
Vodka: $22-25 (Stockholm Krystal, SKYY, Iceberg)
Tequila: $22-50+ (Milagro, Herradura, 1800)
Beer is almost always the most basic ingredient of your bar/fridge. There are two types of beer though and you want both for a party. The first is beer you play with. You need this beer because it’s the cheapest you can find and hopefully tastes decent and when your playing your 7th or 8th game of beer pong; wasting a $3 of beer is wrong. You need sipping beer, the beer you enjoy for it’s taste when you aren’t playing drinking games. This beer satisfies your personal tastes, and is a reflection of you, choose wisely.
Drinking Game Beer: $13-23 per 30pk (Keystone, Coors Light, Bud Light)
Sipping Beer: $7-9 per 6pk (Quilmes, Dos Equis, Sierra Nevada)
You’ll also need some mixes and soda to make something other then shots, for variety’s sake.
Coke: $2 per 2L
Mixes: $3-5 (Margarita, Sweet and Sour, Triple Sec, etc)
There you have it. For under $100, you now can properly stock your bar for just about any party you may have. The only sticking point on this list is the tequila. For whatever reason, everyone I’ve come across, (especially girls) have a visceral hatred for tequila. So, you may be able to add some more rum or vodka in it’s place if you and your friends share the same opinion as the people I know. But that’s a topic for another post.
*Note: All Prices are from Bevmo.com on 08/15/09
UPDATE: What would you spend your$100 on?
This is one of the dumbest articles ever. Your suggestions for liquor are not even remotely well rated for their price brackets. It pisses me off that I wasted 5 seconds to look at this but had to comment on so hopefully people won’t make the same mistake I did. What are you a twelve year old girl anyways? Who drinks captain morgan? Grow some huevos, drink some bourbon, and quit making online articles about subject you have no knowledge about. I bet you enjoyed college sitting in your apartment drinking cute rum drinks with your friends talking about how gay the fraternities are because they wouldn’t think about letting a bitch like you join.
wow, CMM is kind of a douche
CMM is a faggot.
CMM is a fucking champ
holy hell CMM take the stick out of your ass and grow up! not every one loves bourbon. and that paragraph makes you sound like a GRADE A douche.