Most Expensive Cocktail in the World Located
BELFAST—Before you balk at your next bar tab, feel fortunate you didn’t stumble into the Merchant Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland.The upscale hotel’s bar is the home of the $1400 Mai Tai, the most expensive cocktail in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records.“It’s all about the rum,” swears manager Sean Muldoon, referring to the J. Wray & Nephew 17-year-old Jamaican rum used in the cocktail, the exact same liquor “Trader” Vic Bergeron used to create the original Mai Tai in 1944.According to Muldoon, there are only six surviving bottles of the rum and the Merchant’s bottle is the only one available to the general public.(Hat tip: Modern Drunkard Magazine, the magazine for the dynamic drunk.)
