A backyard party at dusk under string lights: someone mid-swing with a stick, a donkey piñata detonating candy across the lawn, the Wasatch behind the fence, burgers and brats on the grill, pie and salad on a checkered tablecloth.

Friday · July 24 · 7:30 PM · Sugar House

Pie & Beer Day
Piñata Party

The pioneers crossed 1,300 miles of absolutely nothing to get here. You have to bring a piñata and your own beer.

Count me in

The particulars

When
Friday, July 24
7:30 PM until the last one's in pieces
Where
2792 S Imperial St
Salt Lake City, UT 84106 Out back. Follow the noise.

Bring two things

Thing one

Your own beer

Emphasis on own. We are not buying your beer. There is a liquor store between your house and ours — there is always a liquor store between your house and ours, this is Utah — and you are going to stop at it.

Bring whatever you actually drink. Beer, Diet Coke, a thermos of soup. Just bring enough, because the guy who turns up empty and starts "just grabbing one" is a guy everybody has met and nobody has liked. Water's from the hose.

Thing two

A fully loaded piñata

Emphasis on loaded. Fill it with whatever weird or fun thing you want. Candy is the floor, not the ceiling. We've got a few to get things started, so nobody's has to go first.

We've got

  • Burgers, brats, and a salad so you can tell yourself you had a vegetable
  • Pie. Serious pie. That's the half of this holiday we're covering.
  • A few starter piñatas and a stick with some history
  • A hot grill that is yours to use — bring something to throw on it if you want
  • A back yard, a fence, and roughly one mountain range of scenery
  • Beer: zero. None. Not one. We are not your dad.

Interactive demonstration

What we mean by "loaded"

Go on. Hit it.

Three swings. That's all anybody gets.

Say you're coming