Welcome to our fourth and final edition of Build a Better Opening Day. By this time, you should be well on your way to celebrating the beginning of another Milwaukee Brewers season with style, distinction, and class.

Since the beginning of this most noble enterprise, I have received literally dozens of questions on how to host an Opening Day party. Most of the questions would not warrant an article unto themselves, and so we are left with a host of unanswered queries that require some kind of closure. Put your fears to rest, gentle readers, and let’s get into some of these nasty little details with which a host must face in the narrowing window of time before the Opening Day bash.

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Welcome back to Build a Better Opening Day, our as-of-yet unnumbered series that helps you create and host a Milwaukee Brewers Opening Day party with style, class, sophistication, and a hefty dose of awesome. By now we’ve settled some basics on location and equipment, so the remainder of the series (which will regrettably end on Thursday) will take you more in-depth in the world of how ladies and gentleman host parties of distinction, wherein the guests watch baseball, stuff their faces, and leave you cleaning up after them. Greatness always come with a price, my friends.

Today’s installment will help you craft a food and drink menu that will inspire envy and appetites from your guests – two feelings essential to a party of class and distinction.

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By now you’ve settled on a place for your Opening Day shindig I’m sure. Congratulations. You are well on your way now to throwing one of the finest celebrations your team and city will ever have the pleasure of seeing. As we stated before, location may be the most important decision you have to make. But it certainly isn’t the only one. Lucky for you I have decided to grace you with even more tips on Building a Better Opening Day – and this time we are talking all about the essential gear you need to kick off Opening Day in style.

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Part one is all about the where. You know what they say in real estate: it’s all about location, location…and…I know there was a third thing but it escapes me.

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