How many drinks to take to a festival?

[Josh198]

I'm 17, and I'm going to a festival for the first time this summer. I'm going with around 8/9 other friends, and will be staying from the tuesday until sunday. I'm thinking about taking a suitcase and a small backpack. Is it wise to fill around half suitcase with drinks and the rest with clothing? And also how many drinks do you all usually take with you??

i was thinking about cans of lager, how much?

thanks

[russycarps]

After many years experience of festivals I can tell youI 4 bottles of babycham is the sweetspot.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

41 minutes ago, Josh198 said:

I'm 17, and I'm going to a festival for the first time this summer. I'm going with around 8/9 other friends, and will be staying from the tuesday until sunday. I'm thinking about taking a suitcase and a small backpack. Is it wise to fill around half suitcase with drinks and the rest with clothing? And also how many drinks do you all usually take with you??

i was thinking about cans of lager, how much?

thanks

Bring as much as you can physically carry. But don't bring it in a suitcase unless you intend to use a trolley as well to get your stuff to the campsite. Suitcases really are the wrong form of transporting things across a festival site - unless the campsite is near the parking area, in which case you might have a fighting chance.

I normally bring copious amounts of drink.

Cans of lager - if that's your drink then yes, why not?

Wishing you all the best for your first festival.

Caveat - Don't bring loads of drink if you easily end up being a spanner on the stuff.

[brandycoke]

Hey Josh.

Good advice from YOAS there.

I'd take as many as you're comfortable carrying, and ignore russycarps, because as everyone who's ever been to a festival will know, you can't take glass bottles in with you.  Anyway,they stopped making babycham in 1947, and re-labelled it nitromors.

Enjoy your festival.

Edited July 3, 2016 by brandycoke

[carlosj]

As yoghurt and brandycoke say (although babycham could be decanted into pop bottles, then adding the maraschino cherries...) my only suggestion from the 'do as I say, not as I do' school of thought, is don't start drinking too early in the day and that helps avoiding the getting spannered bit.