Probably 55 "real people", with their various attendants and hangers-on also pitching in on the getting wasted.

Someone hasn’t been to a military ball before.

sobs in current grog hangover

I mean. Everyone's gonna be properly drunk, but that's not that absurd an amount of booze for a party esp. in an era where pretty much everyone is an alcoholic.

Four years later the party finally ended with the outbreak of The Whiskey Rebellion.

DUI hadn’t been invented yet.

I think alcohol was a lot less strong back then.

Define "bottle". We in the present imagine the standard 750ml which has been created by various regulations in and out of the U.S.

That's pretty normal, especially if there's a variety.

Whisky bar I worked in had 1000 bottles of whisky (500 on the shelf and a lot of backup), two fully stocked beer fridges plus stacks of cartons in the back, and a full floor to ceiling wine rack. ~700k of stock. Only had a legal capacity of 120 people.