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🍷 Beverage Team Information

This page is for our beverage and bar team to ensure everyone knows exactly what to do on the day of the event.

🚫 Venue Rules – Read This First

  • Wine & Beer Only: Fern Forest allows only wine and beer under its license. NO hard alcohol is allowed on site under any circumstances.

  • Compliance is Critical: This is not optional. If the venue staff, inspectors, or anyone else asks, all of our beverages must be described as sake or shochu–based (ABV within wine/beer limits). This is how we stay in compliance with the venue’s rules.

  • Unlabeled Bottles: Some beverages will be in unlabeled bottles for service purposes. These are technically NOT permitted under the venue’s license unless served as sake/shochu-based wine-strength cocktails.

  • ⚠️If there is any risk,, Rebecca may decide to stop serving these beverages immediately.

🏠 Bar Layout & Setup

  • Pop-Up Bar: Right corner of the room with easy access to ice and storage behind the kitchen.

  • Storage Space: Tabletop space behind the bar for extra items.

  • Tip Jar & Venmo: Displayed at the pop-up bar for guests to tip the team.

❄️ First Steps On Arrival

  1. Immediately start putting ice in the bins as soon as we arrive.

  2. Pull ice early so the machine can refill.

  3. Use at least two clear ice buckets at the bar.

🥂 Toast Information

  • Time: 4:45 – 4:55 PM (during speeches)

  • How: As people are concluding and sitting down to eat, we will begin our speeches.

  • Speakers: Mom, Jenn, Nikki, Elizabeth, and Trish.

  • What to Pour: Use the Cooper’s Hawk bottles for the toast — NOT the Wesley Farms Champagne.

  • How Much: Only pour a small amount into each glass for the toast.

🍸 Signature Cocktails (Pre-Batched, Within Wine/Beer ABV)

  • Spiked Lemonade: Tito’s + Lemonade (pre-batched, in beverage dispenser with ice bags inside).

  • Espresso Martini: Espresso + Tito’s + Kahlúa (pre-batched, in beverage dispenser with ice bags inside).

    • This may have to be shaken… unsure…… will test!

  • Peach Bellini: Wesley Farms Champagne + Real Brand Peach Purée (made item by item because of champagne).

All alcohol will be in bottles that are not the original branded bottles but must be served only as permitted wine/beer-based cocktails.

🥂 Wine at the Pop-Up Bar

  • Ruffino Lumina DOC Pinot Grigio, 750 ml

  • Yes Way Rosé, 750 ml

  • Wellsley Farms Prosecco DOC

  • Coralia Sauvignon Blanc Wine, 750 ml

  • Bread & Butter Pinot Noir, 750 ml

  • Freakshow Cabernet Sauvignon, 750 ml

  • Bonanza Lot 7 Cabernet Sauvignon California Red Wine, 750 ml

🍺 Beer at the Pop-Up Bar

  • White Claw Hard Seltzer, 24 pk./12 oz.

  • Yuengling Lager Bottles, 24 pk./12 oz.

  • Stella Artois Classic Lager Beer, 24 pk./11.2 oz.

  • MINI Corona Extra, 24 pk./12 oz.

  • Michelob Ultra Bottles, 24 pk./12 oz.

  • Pacifico Clara Mexican Lager, 24 pk./12 oz.

  • Miller Lite American Pilsner Light Lager, 24 pk./12 oz.

  • IPA (TBD)

🍶 Spirits & Mixers (In Clear, Unlabeled Bottles)

  • Tito’s

  • Blanco Tequila

  • Reposado Tequila

  • Bacardi Rum

(Again: do not serve straight spirits. Only use in pre-batched cocktails as described above.)

🥤 Mixers

  • Diet Coke (35 pk./12 oz.)

  • Coca-Cola (35 pk./12 oz.)

  • Sprite (35 pk./12 oz.)

  • Coca-Cola Zero Sugar (35 pk./12 oz.)

  • Mini Cans Variety Pack (30 pk./7.5 oz.)

  • Canada Dry Ginger Ale (24 ct./12 oz.)

  • Wellsley Farms Organic Lemonade (2 pk./96 oz.)

  • Wellsley Farms Seltzer (15 ct./1 L)

  • Dole 100% Pineapple Juice (24 pk./8 oz.)

  • ReaLime Lime Juice (2 pk./32 oz.)

  • ReaLemon Juice (2 ct./48 oz.)

  • Tropicana 100% Orange Blend (24 pk./10 oz.)

  • Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail (24 pk./10 oz.)

  • Tonic Water

  • Water Bottles

Fruit: Lemons & Limes

🛠️ Bar Tools

  • Shaker tin

  • Jiggers

  • TBD

🥤 Self-Service Station

This station is separate from the pop-up bar. Drinks will be in double tall white metal bins with ice, with black backup buckets and fridge storage.

Beer & Hard Seltzer:

  • White Claw Hard Seltzer

  • Yuengling Lager Bottles

  • Stella Artois Classic Lager

  • MINI Corona Extra

  • Michelob Ultra

  • Pacifico Clara Mexican Lager

  • Miller Lite American Pilsner Light Lager

  • IPA (TBD)

Sodas & Kids’ Drinks:

  • Diet Coke

  • Coca-Cola

  • Sprite

  • Coca-Cola Zero Sugar

  • Mini Can Variety Pack

  • Canada Dry Ginger Ale

  • Wellsley Farms Organic Lemonade

  • Wellsley Farms Seltzer

  • Honest Kids Organic Juice Box Variety

  • Water Bottles

Possible Wine (TBD):

  • If offered, small selection of wine may be placed here (to be decided).

🍑 Ingredients Reference

Bellini Ingredients:

  • Wesley Farms Champagne (no substitutions)

  • Real Brand Peach Purée