Guess I'll have myself a beer.
 

Whether one agrees with the specifics or not, I must applaud your true dedication to the cause of good beer.
You sound snobby enough to me: you have just rejected the practices of 50%+ of weddings in America, at a conservative estimate. You openly prefer receptions where there is sufficent food and drink provided to guests, and where they have a good time. Shocking! Those are rare and precious things in this world where trashy (white, trailer or otherwise) brides &/or grooms decide to skimp on their guests to satisfy their own mistakenly inflated egos, and so provide 3 plates of celery to the 300 guests they've crammed into a fancy hotel to suffer together, and then engage in overt extortion to try to extract the cover-price out of said guests in the form of gifts/pay-offs, all for the sake of making "their day" sufficently grand in lieu of providing actual hospitality to their supposed loved ones.

BR(my kinda snob)C

This is exactly why it's up to me to change society's perception of kegs. People need to know that the bottled stuff is cheap, pasteurized swill, whereas the keg is the fancy, good-tasting shit.

OK, up it to $45.00 a head.

But again, consider the costs involved. A full bottle of Absolut can be had by a mass purchaser at about $15-$17 a bottle (750 ml). A bottle of rail vodka is about $10.00 (750 ml).

Even if you were a champ, you're going to drink 1/2 a bottle of vodka. So, at $45.00 a head, you've expensed out $7.50 in vodka. You're left with $37.50 to be spread over mixers (cheap), limes/lemons (cheapish), glasses (virtually zero), and the salary of the bartender.

Although I imagine they'd mark up the $50 keg as much as they mark up the $1 bottles of heinie.

I was sort of kidding with the pumping. I'm not certain all caterers would have a CO2 tap or kegerator they could bring to the party.

That said, I'm still with you on the general sentiment.

I agree. You would rather drink your own urine.

Thanks for the support!

(Yummy!)

We very obviously haven't met. Unless the reception is starting at 9:00 p.m., it would not be difficult for me to consume well over 1/2 bottle of vodka.

ABBA(superthirstychamp)Kiss

Guess I'll have myself a beer.
 

Both "white trash" and "it's my day" are on my list of odious and vulgar phrases.

You pay too much for alcohol. Those are mediocre [i[retail[/i] prices. Rail vodka should wholesale for less than half that. I would imagine Absolut does as well.

But I realize that just makes your point stronger.

Horror Flicks
 

The Exorcist is just terrifying. Has nothing to do with whether you are an atheist/agnostic/jain/buddhist/baptist/jew. It's just scary - if you don't get scared of those things, it just means that you don't get scared by those things, nothing to do with your spirituality. But maybe I am just a scaredy-cat. I also get very very scared at Rosemary's Baby, even though that has no gore whatsoever (I don't know which is scarier, her husband's flabby chest or that black cradle at the end).

gwn(five foot two and six feet four)c

I find nothing fancy about standing over a keg and pumping and that is what most people think of when they think of "keg" -- I have never been to a private party held at a home or out of doors where they had a keg and thought to use gas instead of a fucking hand pump. If I had a beermeister (do they still make those?) with gas and all the bells and whistles I would use kegged beer -- my father converted an old refrigerator to hold a keg with gas lines going to it and a tap mounted to the front and I would not be opposed to that either so long as it is done tastefully. I will continue to drink from the bottle though because draft beer gives me headaches no matter what.

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The grandmas are few and far between that drink even close to $30 of liquor. You would think caterers would price by the age group of guests.

Where can I send you an invite?

Shameful
 

Microbeers are the cosmo/chocotini/appletini of the beer swilling set.

If you cannot order a Guinness or a real German Lager, drink real liquor and stop being a pussy.

not7y("I'll have a Fat Bastard Cherry Amber September Ale please" - F you)S

PS - So much for retiring at 500 posts