hey everybody,
a few of you have asked about my kegger this weekend. so i wanted to give a brief description.
first, it was really fun. i got a full keg of killian's red, in honor of the first beer that i ever had (which daphne brought to the office, and which i consumed at home when i was age 26).
a full keg is d*mn heavy. but it has to be, to be able to serve 200 12 oz. servings. i both tapped the keg and drank the first beer. the cover charge was $5 at the door. chris was in charge of the music, and brought out some old/new school classics including beastie boys, george clinton & the parliament funkadelic and i helped by provided queen.
i invited close to 20 people and almost everybody came. we even had some friends of friends, which was fun. there was only one ad hoc drinking game, which i did not organize or supervise. no one underage was served beer, and no one was drunk that i know of. but we did put away a good portion of the keg.
some wiseacres decided to litter my home with american flag stickers, half drunk beer cups left in odd & deliberately peculiar places, and one of my pillowcases was replaced by a white pillowcase with the american flag sewn on to it (for the background of that story, please refer questions in a subject line entitled: (elvis impersonator). that even was really fun.
here are some lessons i learned from my first ever kegger (both in terms of going to a kegger and throwing one):
1) start at 9:00 (PM for you smart alecks) or later...probably on a friday.
2) have a beer that people like. for me, i got a generally good response to the killians. a couple people said that they get headaches after drinking too much red beer, but this helped by encouraging moderation.
3) next time, maybe have fat tire, or dutch scotch ale.....but the cover charge would have to go up.
4) make sure your income equals your expenses. with taxes, i paid $86.00 for the keg, and received $79.00 for cover charges (jason smith still owes me a dollar).
5) if you can, have the weather be really hot, to encourage the contrast of the cold beer and the heat. (it was in the 70's earlier that day, so we did pretty good).
this is just a taste of the "kegger" but i had lots of people tell me in the days after that it was really, really fun and that we should do this on a semi-regular basis. if you can make it, i'd love to have you at the next one.
love,
brent
5 comments:
I have never been to a kegger! I feel like I'm missing out now. :)
the kegger we had was just way too much beer (coaster may remember that)so since we've always done the pony keg...still a lot of beer, but just the right amount.
suggestion: never try to have a root beer keg. those things do NOT work.
but i love a good kegger, which sounds like what this was. i suggest you have another one over the board meeting weekend. i'd pay at least $8.00 cover charge for that.
sounds like u had fun:) peace bro.
when's the next one? i must say mr. anderson that yours is one of my favorite blog reads...you have a talent for telling tales!
i will strongly suggest not having an indian beer such as kingfisher... supposedly you can turn a bottle upside down in water and all the glycerin will sink to the bottom of the glass (making about a half a glass of glycerin)...this will explain the headache and the runs that always follow a kingfisher beer(even after half a can!!).
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