It’s the most popular drink on drinksmixer, something I kind of want to try.

Problem: I need tequila, rum, gin, and triple sec. (vodka is the one thing I have…) This would cost a small fortune to make just one of.  For 750 mL bottles, tequila runs from $30-$135; rum and tripple sec each run about $20, and gin can be had for as little as $10 (That seems scary-cheap though…).

Plus lemon juice for the sweet and sour mix, and coke.

That puts the price-point of this guy at somewhere from $65 to infinity.  Granted, I’m getting a boatload of booze; and booze doesn’t tend to go bad, but that’s a rather large… “investment” in a drink.  Also, I like the idea of saving money with volume; so to pay for smaller volumes, the unit price gets much higher.

I have trouble paying obscene prices for drinks at bars…  I’ve mixed a martini, and let’s face it, your simple martini is gin and dry vermoth - for $30 you can get enough to make dozens of martinis; for $30 at a bar you can get, what, somewhere from 2-6? Ugh… they need a “bulk barn” for alcohol… all I want is a little of each! lol; enough to know if the damn thing is even good! I think I should stick to recipes with two ingredients… At least that way I know I could use those ingredients up in a sane timespan…