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In the paper today it said that the rather dodgy restaurant Bob Bob Ricard in Soho will be serving Chateau Yquem dessert wine for £29 per 100ml glass.

Bob Bob Ricard is the kind of place a Russian Mafia boss would set up as a high concept restaurant but he doesn't know what the concept is.

http://www.bobbobricard.com/index.html

Anyway, the point is that the £29 a glass set me wondering what is the most expensive drink any Dakkanaut has ever had.

I can stake a claim with a glass of brandy I had at The Compleat Angler hotel in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a few years ago. It cost me £75 and came with a free extra glass of brandy which would have cost £12.50 if I had had to pay for it.

It is the most delicious brandy I have ever tasted. That said, I would never had sprung for it if I had not been already very well refreshed so perhaps it should not count. I was even better refreshed after drinking the two glasses.

What is your most expensive tipple?

60 dollar smoothie, made with every fruit imaginable, about half a pound of protein powder, and about the size of your average 2L bottle of soda.

I bought a girl a half a pint of lager and it cost me 18 years marriage,a crappy divorce and half my mortgage to get rid of the bitch.

I think that was expensive drink!

a decent bottle of cognac.

I dont remember the exact price, but it was around 200-300$.
(it wasn't in a bar, so maybe it doesn't count)

I'm not that daft. Went to a gig up 'That London' once, ordered a pint, was told 'that'll be £5.50' to which a quick 'get fethed!' was my only response, before walking sans drink.

Worst thing was, said band was bollocks.

Well I have a bottle of Crown Royal Reserve. If I opened it, it would probably be my most expensive drink. $189.00 a bottle if I remember correctly.

Mr Mystery wrote:I'm not that daft. Went to a gig up 'That London' once, ordered a pint, was told 'that'll be £5.50' to which a quick 'get fethed!' was my only response, before walking sans drink.

Worst thing was, said band was bollocks.

Thing is, in Australia that'd be $11, which is about the average price for a pint... Seriously, drinks here are stupidly expensive.

A $15 whiskey neat. "Three fingers, three cubes," I say. A splash and three fingers of water followed by five cubes is what I got.

This is why I don't go out to drink.

A hot chocolate somewhere that cost in the region of £3. If it wasn't due to the fact that I was so damned thristy, wanted a hot drink and had lots more stuff to do, i'd have gone next door to the Co-Op, bought a small pint of milk and a small tub of drinking chocolate, gone home and made myself one for that price, and still have enough left for a few more.

Based on the OP I don't think we can count bottles bought for home consumption. Should just be individual drinks bought out, although I suppose if you bought a really expensive bottle of wine at a restaurant or something, you could divide the price by 4 to get the per-glass price.

Most I think I've spent on an individual drink is probably in the $30-$40 range for a scotch, so nowhere near Kilkrazy's mark. I might be able to contest with him on a per-evening alcohol expenditure mark, but those years are a ways behind me, and I'd have to guess at the highest figure, anyway.

Indeed.~

wikipedia wrote:Since 2006, Churchill Downs has also served extra-premium custom-made mint juleps at a cost of $1000 each at the Kentucky Derby. These mint juleps were served in gold-plated cups with silver straws, and were made from Woodford Reserve bourbon, mint imported from Ireland, ice from the Bavarian Alps, and sugar from Australia.

Go Amurika.

Do you get to keep the cup and straw?

If I'm payin a grand for a drink, I better get more than just a cup and straw....

A mate told me that when he went to a resurant to celebrate some thing to do with his uncle and he told me that their was some wine on it for 8k

CrashUSAR wrote:If I'm payin a grand for a drink, I better get more than just a cup and straw....

Damn straight! there better be at least a table dance too.....


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Elmodiddly wrote:I bought a girl a half a pint of lager and it cost me 18 years marriage,a crappy divorce and half my mortgage to get rid of the bitch.

I think that was expensive drink!

so far, you win, imho!

'Most expensive' is always a completely arbitrary value, one can set a high price on a botle of budget lemonade and even get someone to 'pay' for it if it suits your marketing strategy.

Drunk beyond all comprehension, at this posh place, ordered a bottle of Cristal at the bar. Drank one glass of it and promptly forgot about the bottle and left the bar.

That was about 4000SEK // $600 // €450 down the drain... completely worthless.

pixelpusher wrote:Drunk beyond all comprehension, at this posh place, ordered a bottle of Cristal at the bar. Drank one glass of it and promptly forgot about the bottle and left the bar.

That was about 4000SEK // $600 // €450 down the drain... completely worthless.

Cristal................

Welcome to Dakka P-Diddy!

Kilkrazy wrote:

I can stake a claim with a glass of brandy I had at The Compleat Angler hotel in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a few years ago. It cost me £75 and came with a free extra glass of brandy which would have cost £12.50 if I had had to pay for it.

It is the most delicious brandy I have ever tasted. That said, I would never had sprung for it if I had not been already very well refreshed so perhaps it should not count. I was even better refreshed after drinking the two glasses.

What is your most expensive tipple?

There is something really awesome about that, you sound like a bit of a legend killkrazy. I would say a rum and coke i bought while down the horse races for a day out, was about 6 squids. Not super expensive but enough to say 'sorry?!' quite loudly to the bartender.

Stopped for a smoothie with my bud after work, on the way out I opened the door of his van and smashed the side mirror of the truck next to us.

smoothie = $3
replacement mirror = $139

Darn expensive smoothie if you ask me...

Orlanth wrote:'Most expensive' is always a completely arbitrary value, one can set a high price on a botle of budget lemonade and even get someone to 'pay' for it if it suits your marketing strategy.

But the question is what is the most a Dakka member has spent on an alcoholic beverage consumed out of the home. It isn't about marketing, it's about our own profligacy and debauchedness.


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pixelpusher wrote:Drunk beyond all comprehension, at this posh place, ordered a bottle of Cristal at the bar. Drank one glass of it and promptly forgot about the bottle and left the bar.

That was about 4000SEK // $600 // €450 down the drain... completely worthless.

This would seem to take the lead. For the sake of being sporting, we'll follow the guideline set earlier in the thread, dividing the price of a bottle of wine by four to represent the per-drink price.

So Pixelpusher now holds the lead at $150 USD / € 112.50 Euro.

Probably the champagne my sister served at her wedding. But then, I didn't exactly pay for that so I don't think that counted.

Elmodiddly wrote:I bought a girl a half a pint of lager and it cost me 18 years marriage,a crappy divorce and half my mortgage to get rid of the bitch.

I think that was expensive drink!

Mannahnin wrote: For the sake of being sporting, we'll follow the guideline set earlier in the thread, dividing the price of a bottle of wine by four to represent the per-drink price.

So Pixelpusher now holds the lead at $150 USD / € 112.50 Euro.

but how can $150 compare to that!?

Same sense of being sporting! If we allow Elmodiddly's tale of woe, the thread has come to an end.

Either that, or we get competing tales of woe which each started off with someone's single drink, and I don't think it's fun reading about DUIs.

Let's not make this into a competition but instead a thread in which we laugh (and cry on the inside) at other peoples expensive mistakes/habits. If it turns into a -measuring contest I'm out.

Too late! You've already shown yours!

Fair point taken, though. Folks should be sharing the price, drink & circumstances for our mutual amusement, regardless of whether you can come close to the record.

Mannahnin wrote:Too late! You've already shown yours!

Fair point taken, though. Folks should be sharing the price, drink & circumstances for our mutual amusement, regardless of whether you can come close to the record.

Here, here! i'll drink to that!

halonachos wrote:

wikipedia wrote:Since 2006, Churchill Downs has also served extra-premium custom-made mint juleps at a cost of $1000 each at the Kentucky Derby. These mint juleps were served in gold-plated cups with silver straws, and were made from Woodford Reserve bourbon, mint imported from Ireland, ice from the Bavarian Alps, and sugar from Australia.

Go Amurika.

Our family has a tradition of attending the Queens Cup Steeplechase every year, and we always serve mint juleps. Definitely not $1000 ones though.

I remember one time I dropped like $150 on alcohol for a party and then I had to leave less than an hour later.

Does that count?