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I would be forever beat seeing as though I'm cheap. I would probably wait for the drink to go on clearance before I bought it.

Okay, but give us some details! If you usually drink the PBR special, but one time you spruing for the Sam Adams because they had $2 drafts since the game was on, tell us! Give us a story!

Okay then, this one time I bought a bottle of Coke, not the plastic bottle stuff, the glass bottle stuff with a metal cap.

Well my uncle was driving the car back from the store and I was trying to open the bottle with a small emergnecy flashlight by placing the end of the flashlight under the cap and pushing upwards.

"Did you cut yourself?" my uncle asked as I stopped to stare at the bottle.

"Not yet." I said as I went back to the task at hand.

At that moment my hand slipped and the metal edges of the top took the top layer of skin off of my finger. My ring finger had two lines of wet pink with the flesh that had been peeled off still dangling from it, my middle finger only suffured one such cut.

My uncle then took the bottle and opened it up using fething leverage.

Evil ridges of lacerations, I still have the scars to prove it.

It may have cost me $2.00, but it also cost me sweat, blood, and thankfully no tears although my dignity dropped.

9 USD half can of coke (cola). Most expensive soda I ever bought, but it was a requirement for the strip club we took my buddy to for his bachelor's party (we had several under 21 guests in our party, and thus couldn't get into a good club).

12 dollars for a bottle of Sam Adams in a bar in NYC, I was looking for a famous dive bar called "The Village Idiot" and stopped to ask two lasses for directions because they were attractive. My gambit successful they invited me to a "better" bar, and it was 12 bucks a bottle, making it instantly less better.

I tackled the best looking one after dinner the day after, so it wasn't a total loss, but I visited the village idiot as well that week, and they sold Pabst for a dollar a can. Sweeeet!

Where I am at in AK at the moment everything is more expensive. While not as expensive up front, when considering that there are no other shopping options, it starts to add up very quickly. A 12 pack of Pepsi/Coke is $14. A gallon of milk is almost $10. Liquor is not allowed to be sold here so it has to be shipped in and a case of non-premium beer (bottles, not cans) is $80.

When my dad used to live in Canada he had some

me and my mom dont really like to touch alcohol so we made it into

We were finishing a sort of "Drama Week" in the town where I live, so to celebrate, I asked my dad for one of his "good bottles". Hegave me a bottle of red wine, unknown label, but the label et al were of very good taste, so it must've been something.

Thing is, the problem with the Drama Week is that you get lots of school kids involved with amateur Drama (about 5 schools, around 8-15 kids, ages between 14 and 17). The groups used to stay together in a hotel which kindly sponsored the event.

Some kids from one of the groups messed up so bad one night the hotel kicked them out next day. So, eventually plans were made so that the drama groups were sleeping in a gym on one of the local schools.

This particular school was built during the dictatorship, and so had high walls and a metal spiked fence. This was the day I got the bottle, and was carrying it in my backpack. Thing is, me'n my group missed the chance to open it that night as we got split up. Eventually, one of the girls in my group wanted to see a boy from another group. We went to the school (it was late night) and we jumped the fence.

We went inside, and she found the boy she was looking for, while I found the rest of his group (all ladies, at that!) so I started talking with some of them, story telling and whatnot.
One of the girls started laughing so hard at the end of one of my stories, I though she was crazy... only to realize she was having an asthma attack. Since she couldn't get over it, we decided to take her to the hospital but, since it was like 3 a.m., they decided against waking up their teacher (who was sleeping in the hotel and was said to have a bad, bad temper).

When we got to the school's courtyard, we remembered the metal fence... And since Asthma girl couldn't climb it alone, and I was deemed the strongest of the group (surprisingly), I climbed ahead, found footing on a stone pillar, passed my backpack to one of the girls, and pulled A-Girl up.
I remember briefly looking at the fence when I was pulling her up, and I realized how dangerous the stunt we were just pulling was! I mean, that was a SPIKED FENCE, and I was on top of a 50x50cm pillar, about 2.5 meters tall! If we slipped, the fall or the spikes would mean we could get severely injured, or die!

So I just pulled her up, as fast as I could, jumped down on the other side, and helped her down.

That was when I saw my backpack flying over the fence and crashing next to me. The girl who threw it realized something broke and offered to pay it back, apologizing a gazillion times... I just wanted that night to be over as I saw the beautiful red liquid gently flow into the sidewalk.

Next day, dad asked about the bottle. Delicious, I answered, great wine. Dad smiles and says,

"It ought to be, it cost me 300€"

That was the story of how I almost drank the most expensive drink I was ever about to have in 26 years of existence.

:(

Most expensive drink or round of drinks for my old crew at a club in South Jersey came to over $200.00.

I was passed out at the time and tied to a bar stool (bartender threatened to thow us all out, if anyone was caught passed out on the bar)

Remy Martin Louis XIII, Bottle price is @$2,500 (usd)
A place named "Duck's Grille and Bar" in Jacksonville, N.C. serves it for $150 for basically a shot. Had one for my B-day... a special treat for myself that year.

sebster wrote:

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.

Really? Where the hell do you live? The only place in oz I've paid $11 for a pint was that crappy Irish hotel in Surfers Paradise. There're usually $6-8 in my experience.

Destrado wrote:Next day, dad asked about the bottle. Delicious, I answered, great wine. Dad smiles and says,

"It ought to be, it cost me 300€"

That was the story of how I almost drank the most expensive drink I was ever about to have in 26 years of existence.

Now THAT'S a story! Thank you for sharing your sorrow with us.

How I wish I didn't have that story to tell, I'd rather have a bad headache the next day. Oh well.

LunaHound wrote:When my dad used to live in Canada he had some

me and my mom dont really like to touch alcohol so we made it into

Wow...after reading through this thread I have come to the conclusion that I am one cheep ,it would never cross my mind to pay $150+ for a single drink,do you know how much Jack Daniels one can buy with $150 dollars?
But,to answer the original question,I've bought a few $12 dollar Daiquiri during Mardi Gras,but those came in 44oz cups and were filled with more alcohol than Otis from the old Andy Griffith Show.

That reminds me of the bucket 'o beer you can get before you get on the ski lift at Camelback. About 3/4 of the way up the mountain there's a 55 gallon drum with a target around it to drop the empties into. Fun.

Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster.

snurl wrote:That reminds me of the bucket 'o beer you can get before you get on the ski lift at Camelback. About 3/4 of the way up the mountain there's a 55 gallon drum with a target around it to drop the empties into. Fun.

I know that place.... Rode the lift just for the shot... Made 3. Can't ski to save a life.

helgrenze wrote:

snurl wrote:That reminds me of the bucket 'o beer you can get before you get on the ski lift at Camelback. About 3/4 of the way up the mountain there's a 55 gallon drum with a target around it to drop the empties into. Fun.

I know that place.... Rode the lift just for the shot... Made 3. Can't ski to save a life.

After you hit that target a few times the skiing is way easier. Er, it doesn't hurt as much when you get to the bottom.

Never drink in a Muslim country. While living in Bangladesh I spent nearly 1000 USD in the course of a month on booze alone, drinking only twice a week at most.

In the US the most I've ever paid for a drink was 19 USD at the hotel bar in the Hilton on Manhattan.

Well I was in a place, and if I told you where I was I could not tell this story, since what happens there stays there.

However, it was new years eve, and I was there with my 2 brothers, we were having a great time.

so we cruise the strip, errr main thoroughfare and happen upon this bar called The Rockhouse. They were selling giant Strawberry daiquiri's (80 oz.) that came in a plastic guitar "Glass"

Best $35 I have ever spent!

Guiness Book puts the "Ritz Sidecar" from the Bar Hemmingway in Paris as the single most expensive without "trinkets"....
Cost per drink - $515+ (exchange rates being what they are)

With "Trinkets"... the Diamond Cocktail at the Piano Bar at The London Sheraton Park Tower Hotel.... includes a 0.6 carat diamond for @$4350.