End the summer with a beer party in the garden and prepare for the upcoming Oktoberfest! Invite family and friends, grill together and enjoy delicious pretzels. We'll show you some ideas using household items and flea market finds that are sure to create a welcoming atmosphere while also creating a cheerful atmosphere. All DIY ideas can be achieved even on a tight budget, so you don't have to worry about extra costs and can instead enjoy the party. How to turn your outdoor area into a beer garden:
Design the entrance creatively
Welcome your guests in a creative way - with a rustic entrance. Old conduit pipes were found at the flea market and attached to a wooden board. They serve as clothes hooks where soft bedspreads await the guests - they all feel cozy and warm even on cool evenings. Or you can hang the handle glasses. With a homemade “Biergarten” sign you can clearly show your friends that you have come to the right party. And when the celebration is over, you can also store the construction in the garden house and, for example, organize the garden tools clearly.
Arrange the buffet
The first step to a successful beer party in the garden is to set up a buffet - an extendable garden table offers the perfect surface for pretzels and snacks. So that it doesn't look too boring, you can use weatherproof household items such as egg baskets, tool boxes made of wood and metal, and rattan baskets. Decorate with artificial plants (e.g. Ikea has cheap versions), painted mason jars (choose pastel colors or nude shades, they bring out the rustic look better). Feathers add variety to the table and lanterns add the finishing touches to the arrangement. The goal - to put together a table decoration that is not only cheap but also easy to maintain, that you don't have to clean right after the party and that the rain and wind can't harm. Depending on your preferences, you can serve the pretzel with mustard, dip or sauce.
If you arrange everything on several levels, all drinks and snacks will be easier to reach and you won't have to keep tidying up the buffet later during the party. Another strong pro argument: the more varied the buffet looks, the more the guests will like it. So the friends will think that you have really devoted a lot of time, and in fact everything can be arranged in half an hour.
The handcart becomes a serving cart
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While guests can help themselves to the buffet at small parties, just one table is not enough for more than 20 people. In this case, you can distribute several trolleys around the garden so that your friends don't have to wait in line and always have a beer within reach. Serving trolleys are also perfect as a storage space for empty beer bottles. But you don't always have several serving trolleys in the house. Instead, you can use the children's wheelbarrow or handcart for this purpose.
Arrange the beer bottles with ice in wine crates and the pretzels in metal egg baskets. This means guests can move freely around the garden and always have drinks and snacks within reach. Several garden chairs, a bench made of brick and wood, plenty of seat cushions and picnic blankets offer flexible seating options for all guests. For example, you can make a tent yourself for the children.
Garland made from vintage malt bags
Do you have friends whovarious beer itemscollect? Borrow malt bags and hang them on the clothesline. All the better – invite your friend and ask him to tell the other guests a little more about beer production. So you have achieved two goals at once – on the one handnice decoration made, on the other hand provided entertainment. And best of all: the decoration fits perfectly with the motto “rustic charm”. In contrast to fairy lights, neon signs, plastic figures and other home accessories that will only be a nuisance.
The lighting
Even though most beer parties start in the afternoon, they can last until late at night. At least the guests shouldtheir foodand drink, and have to stumble on the way to the house, they quickly find themselves in a bad mood on the way home. Instead of spoiling the mood, you can create the right atmosphere with lanterns, lanterns and an outdoor fireplace. In any case, you have to be very careful as there is always a risk of fire with open flames, especially if there is wind.
Don't forget the sweets
Chips and pretzels go perfectly with beer, but if you give guests the opportunity to sweeten their lives every now and then in the evening, they will definitely appreciate the gesture. Creativity is also required in this case - perhaps you have a palette at home? Then you can turn it into a table and arrange the sweets on it. In clay flower pots, of course. A wooden spool can serve as a cake stand and provide support for food, drinks, decorations or lighting.
Do you have old tiles left over from the last bathroom renovation? Paint these in teracotta shades and use them as coasters. Various games can be played with painted river stones and a tile in blackboard color. So fun is guaranteed for young and old!
The new upcycling trend not only offers many ideas on how you can save money, but also numerous decoration inspirations. Do you have old leather boots lying around at home? Place a plastic cup in each boot to keep it upright. Now place succulents in small plastic pots on the cup and cover them with moss to conceal the pots. The creative and cost-effective decoration is ready. The cup will collect excess water from the succulents, and the boots can easily stay outside for several days.
Old teapots, mugs etc. can also accommodate seasonal field flowers. Metal bucket turns into a cool bag in no time with a little ice. And oversized coil can serve as an outdoor side table. Let your imagination run wild, look around your home and you are guaranteed to soon find a new use for many household items. Preferably choose those that can either be treated with waterproof paint or are themselves made of weatherproof materials.
DIY games
Staying outdoors offers many opportunities for entertainment - you can organize a movie night or play fun games. A cool upcycling idea is to find a new use for the old beer bottles - for example, to organize a throwing game. Simply spray the bottles with color spray in red and blue, let them dry and then arrange them in a wooden box in three rows, each row with 4 bottles each. Make rings out of wire and then wrap them with twine. Ready! Now all you have to do is divide the players into two teams and each team should throw the rings over either the blue or red bottles. Every meeting brings points. This idea is guaranteed to be fun for both parents and children.
Don't invest heavily in decorative pieces, but rather focus on the quality drinks and food. Avoid complicated dishes or dips as they take up a lot of time and are rather impractical for a garden party. Go for pretzels, snacks and sweets. Don't forget to offer juice and water too. Depending on how many adults and children are coming to your celebration and how long the party lasts, the drink requirements can vary greatly. To be on the safe side, you can count on around 1.5-2 liters of beer and at least 1 0.5 liter bottle of water per person and buy the drinks on commission. It is better to buy the beer in 0.3 liter bottles.
If you want to organize a beer party in your own garden, then you should follow a few simple rules: think about which household items you will use for decoration and which you can borrow from friends or guests. Calculate drink needs in advance. Plan some entertainment: music, games, and maybe get a friend who knows beer making. So the party success is guaranteed.
