If you go to a party that is “BYOB”, what is the standard beverage people bring? For example, if I like Jack and Coke, do I go out and buy a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and bring it to the party? What if I like wine, do I bring a bottle for myself? A six-pack of beer?
This isn’t a party at a close friend’s house or anything. I actually won’t know anyone, including the host. (I was invited as part of membership in an organization I recently joined) I want to go, but I don’t want to look like a big dork. I am just starting to socialize and meet new people after a divorce, and I don’t want to stick out as the idiot who doesn’t know which B to bring.
I would bring whatever it is that you like, beer, wine, liquor. Personally, I wouldn’t bring too much, say a six pack, or a flask bottle of liquor. You don’t want to get trashed. I would also imagine that a responsible host would have N/A beverages, such as soda, juice, coffee & tea for mixers and those who don’t drink, so you can use that for your Jack & Coke.
Standard beverage? Depends on the party and the people. Some ‘class acts’ like to bring a six pack of budlight and then drank all the heineken they find in the fridge. Others bring a bottle of nice wine, uncork it, and then leave it out for everyone.
If you want to ‘blend’ and to leave a good impression bring a bottle of wine and drink only a glass or two. Beer is probably ok, too, but make sure it’s quality. A fifth of hard stuff might send a message that drinking is too important to you. You might make the best impression by just bringing a nice wine and then just drinking water (on the rocks).
I take BYOB literally. I bring a sixer of MY OWN beer (what I would want to drink), and that’s what I drink when I am there. I leave the remainder behind as a tip to the host.
Bring your beer already on ice. I had a guy come over and fill his cooler from my icemaker. So that there was no ice for the mixed-drink crowd.
Ice-nappers. Grrrrrrr.
Remainder? What is this ‘remainder’ of which you speak? 
I usually bring a 12 pack and let people drink what they want. Always nice to be able to offer the ladies a beer. I agree that bringing the hard stuff is probably not a good idea if you don’t know the people.
my suggestion is to bring a twelve pack of good beer(not some ratty tasting micro-brew) and only bring half of it in to the party. if you leave a six-pack in the car, you can always go and get it if you need it but you dont look like a drink bringing too much beer to a low key party. but get something that chicks would drink, something universal like Blue Moon, or Heiniken (sp?). especially b/c you want to be able to offer something to some chics if they need a drink. and if nobody wants anything that you brought and the party sucks, you always have the option of leaving with at least a six-pack for your fridge or getting really shit faced and offending a whole bunch of people that you dont know.
if you think that you have a chance to pull off the slightly classier look, definately bring a bottle like Luna de Luna…chicks usually like it.
The backwash in the bottom of each bottle, my friend.
Oh. When I say BYOB what I mean is bring whatever you want to drink and expect that it will be set out on the counter for you and anyone else who wishes to partake of. I provide soft drinks and non-alcoholic mixers, garnishes and ice. HOWEVER - the people I usually have over are people I know well and who know each other well. I don’t drink, but when I am invited to other people’s BYOB gatherings, I usually bring a decent bottle of wine forthe host/ess to serve if s/he likes.
When I do anything BYOB it means that I’m too poor to buy enough alcohol for everyone.
It does not mean bring a fifth of rum and drink the whole bottle yourself. It means that if you bring alcohol, and express interest in drinking, I will have mixers and will break out my measly stash to share. But I will not do this until there is enough for everyone.
As for what to bring…beer or wine. Another suggestion would be a good bottle of scotch, bourbon, tequila or brandy. Or if you know that there will be mixers, bring something standard to mix with (vodka, rum, triple sec, etc.)
I’ve done that before. Big-time party house, we all usually went through at least two twelve packs a night. That means a lot of empty and near-empty bottles laying all over the place. So I (a regular vistor) and a friend (a resident) start pouring all the remains into a single bottle, and we get it filled. (this is after we had contributed quite a bit to the empty bottle fund.) So, bastards that we are, we screwed the bottle cap back on and placed it in the fridge.
No one knows what happened to that bottle. Hopefully, I’ll never find out.