Belfast hotel releases £1,000 cocktail set to create 'once-in-a-lifetime' experience for guests

The Merchant Hotel successful Belfast, celebrated for its grounds breaking £750 Mai Tai, has present launched different boozy masterpiece - a £1,000 cocktail hailed arsenic a 'once successful a beingness experience'

Cocktail lovers whitethorn request to commencement redeeming a twelvemonth successful beforehand earlier making a booking astatine Belfast's Merchant Hotel's award-winning cocktail bar, which this week launched a £1,000 "masterpiece" tipple.

Hailed arsenic a "once-in-a-lifetime experience", the Midleton Foret de Troncais was launched contiguous (Wednesday, February 12) arsenic portion of the metropolis centre hotel's caller luxury cocktail menu, with the opulent drinks mixed with uncommon whiskeys by Midleton, Macallan and Michter's.

The Rare and Refined Collection beverages commencement astatine an eyewatering £785 - with the Midleton Foret de Troncais being the priciest of the clump - and it's apt patrons volition beryllium cautious not to spill a azygous drop. Served with Antica Formula and Dubonnet, the Midleton Foret de Troncais is described arsenic "a masterpiece of Irish whiskey, aged successful uncommon French Troncais oak casks and delivering elegant notes of honey, toasted almonds and delicate spice".

Other items connected the paper see Michter’s 20 (£785), which includes a premix of two-decades aged American bourbon, with notes of caramelised oak, acheronian cherry, vanilla and tobacco, poured with Gammel Dansk Bitter Dram and Transatlantic Bitters.

Customers tin besides bask the Macallan 25 (£850), aged successful sherry-seasoned oak. Said to beryllium "known for its heavy richness, velvety texture, layers of dried fruit, chocolate, and warming spice", this beverage volition beryllium curated with Orange Cream, Riemerschmid Bitters and Elixir Liqueur.

The Merchant Hotel, which volition go the archetypal barroom successful Northern Ireland to person a prestigious 2 Pin grant from the Pinnacle Guide - i.e. the ‘Michelin Guide for Bars’ - aboriginal this month, has agelong made a sanction for itself arsenic a purveyor of unique, upmarket drinks.

Back successful 2007, the upscale hotel's £750 Mai Tai earned it the Guinness Book of Records rubric for the world’s astir costly cocktail However, successful 2013, this was overtaken galore times implicit by an eyewatering £8,583 cocktail served successful Melbourne, Australia. For those watching the pennies, the edifice does besides service delicious sounding cocktails nether the £20 people connected its regular menu, starting from £14.99.

Merchant Bar's wide manager, Aaron Dugan, who runs the constitution alongside cocktail barroom manager Emily Doherty, said: "We are arrogant to bring our unsocial collaboration with 3 icons of whiskey to beingness with The Rare & Refined Collection.

"These exceptional drinks person been crafted to make once-in-a-lifetime experiences to beryllium savoured. The fortunate fewer that get to effort these drinks volition get to relish thing genuinely special.

"And, for those that find the terms tag excessively rich, we person besides created an exceptional postulation of 21 cocktails, inspired by timeless classics, but with a unsocial Merchant twist. Named according to their flavour profile, the paper has been designed to assistance customers lucifer their preferred flavour profiles to their choices. There genuinely is thing to suit each taste."

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