Hotel launches ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ €1,200 whiskey cocktail
A Belfast hotel has launched a £1,000 (€1,200) cocktail which it described as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience”.
The pricey tipple at the Merchant Hotel has been described as a “masterpiece of Irish whiskey”.
The Belfast city centre hotel earned the Guinness Book of Records title for the world’s most expensive cocktail in 2007 with its £750 Mai Tai.
However, that was overtaken in 2013 by a cocktail which was sold for £8,583 in Melbourne, Australia.
The Merchant Hotel launched its new cocktail menu on Wednesday, including a collection crafted with rare whiskeys by Midleton, Macallan and Michter’s, which start at £785 and go up to £1,000.
The cocktail bar at the Merchant Hotel in Belfast. Photo: Drinksology/PA Wire
The most expensive, the Midleton Foret de Troncais (£1,000), is described as “a masterpiece of Irish whiskey, aged in rare French Troncais oak casks and delivering elegant notes of honey, toasted almonds and delicate spice” served with Antica…
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