To take more alcohol than allowed to Wilderness Festival?

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4 day festival with limit of either 12 beers or 2 bottles of wine.

Would I be unreasonable to take more than this measly limit?

I'd have to be creative in my packing and I guess being caught will depend on how thorough their searches are.

Has anyone been that can say a bit about security searches on entry?

I’ll say one thing: baby food pouches.

Can you not just go without the booze? It's not really worth the risk of getting refused entry.

Why is this? Is it a family type festival? Seems quite bizarre

Empty sun cream bottle.

Fill with vodka or gin or whatever.

@KilljoysDutch they won't refuse entry, just confiscate it.

Wine bra?

What you need are those tampon flasks

Gin in a water bottle?!

That's per person surely

Vodka lollies

In my experience they will definitely open water bottles for a sniff. Way too obvious.

You have to be more creative, use empty (well washed!) body lotion or sun cream bottles and fill them.

Sounds a bit controlling. I guess they want to avoid rowdy drunken behaviour but that feels like a low limit.

How are they going to find it? Stick a bottle of gin in your tent, are packed into clothes. They aren’t going to search everyone j less you make it obvious.
You’d be rinsed of money anyway spending 4 days at a festival…

Are you allowed out once in?

(I'm guessing its to protect bar sales!)

4 days? 2 bottles of wine?

Can you buy alcohol on site?

12 beers for 4 days?
WTF?

It’s to protect the bar sales, not because they’re worried about drunkenness.

‘ Sounds a bit controlling. I guess they want to avoid rowdy drunken behaviour but that feels like a low limit.’

No, they want to make more money at their bars. Lots more places doing that this year trying to claw back money they’ve lost in the last year or so.

If they sell alcohol on site I'm surprised you're allowed to take any tbh. If it was literally only 2 bottles of wine for 4 days and no option to purchase more I'd arrange for a friend to fly in supplies by drone!

Put it inside your tent before you roll it up, they're not gonna open your tent out to look for a bit of booze.

Box of wine...remove the bag, tape it round your middle 😁

It depends what your drink of choice is, I always take spirits into festivals, I don't drink beer or wine. Its pretty much the only time I drink.
Cut water bottles in half and boil the tops off so the seal doesn't crack and then empty another bottle, refil with clear spirits and screw the still sealed lids on.
Apparently particularly savvy security can tell the difference if they shake them because bubbles form differently in water but this might be a myth as I have never ever had this happen.

buy a cheap big bra - get some plasic bottle bags (like bags/water flask things) - fill with booze - one down each cup - return to car when needed to fill up - they wont search your bra (I was introduced to 'tit Bacardi' at a festival a few years back!

also wrap things in your tent bag

Is Wilderness one of the ones struggling financially? If so, you ought to support them properly if you want them to survive.

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