Keg Beer 101

November 28, 2008 9:55 PM

It's party season and a good time to start thinking about topping last year's lame office party. It may have been a few years and maybe you have forgotten some critical lessons from college. Thankfully, there is a science to keg beer. Think it all through and make some plans. You could also hide the vodka and tonic for you and your close buds and be a dick to everyone else. Have fun!
posted by shockingbluamp (6 comments total)

Drinking...for SCIENCE! I can't think of a better excuse to have a drinking party.

The prank video is just priceless, now if only it ended with them telling everyone what they weren't drinking.
posted by Chan at 10:32 PM on November 28, 2008

Along these lines, some pertinent how-tos:
How to avoid the office oddballs at office parties
How to handle a drunk co-worker at an office party
How to NOT Make a Fool Out of Yourself at the Office Christmas Party
How to deal with a hangover at work
How to Avoid Getting Fired at Your Office Christmas Party
posted by twoleftfeet at 11:09 PM on November 28, 2008

It's been twenty years since I've seen an employer provide alcohol at a company party. That probably contributes greatly to the lameness of those parties, but they'd rather have lameness than litigation.

The last company party with drinking was highly entertaining. An inflatable party doll that was a joke gift to a departing employee wound up under the manufacturing manager, in the middle of the public street out in front of the building. Where all the company executives found the insensate couple on leaving said building.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:09 AM on November 29, 2008

Years ago, I worked for a company that had a party with an open bar. One of the employees ended up causing a wreck where people died. The company was sued, successfully, by the families of the victims.

News got around quickly that companies were liable for their employees driving drunk and the booze dried up before you could say BAC.
posted by dejah420 at 11:52 AM on November 29, 2008

I was at that party! First group kitchen pic, black jacket and white shirt!
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 3:31 PM on November 29, 2008

Um, how do the alcohol-free keggers know that the party attendees hadn't been drinking beforehand, seeing as how their kegger is set up in a public area? I've hung out in Ivy League environs during party weekends, and many many kids "pre-dose" with several drinks before heading out for the evening.

Sorry to be such a party pooper.
posted by telstar at 1:11 AM on December 1, 2008