What is the Most Expensive Starbucks Drink?
What would you do if you were given a voucher redeemable for any Starbucks drink?
This guy concocted the most expensive coffee.
Here it is:
13 shot venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel.
Total Cost: $13.76 (with tax).
What the blogger didn’t tote up was the amount of caffeine in this drink. A while back we compiled a very detailed list of Starbucks Caffeine – using recently published information from Starbucks and independent lab tests.
The figure for an espresso shot is 75mg, so 13x75mg = 975mg. A long way from a lethal dose – but enough to cause some serious reactions. That’s equivalent to downing 3 Spike Shooters – which was enough to send some students to the emergency room.
Move Over Blogger, You’ve Been Trumped!
Logan with Geek on Call I.T. Services needed something to help him through his long hours of computer tinkering, so he came up with this drink utilizing Starbuck’s new Trenta sized cup.
He definitly took advantage of the “free birthday beverage” Starbucks offers! Here’s Logan’s concoction…..
Java Chip Frappuccino in a Trenta cup, 16 shots of espresso, a shot of soy milk, caramel flavoring, banana puree, strawberry puree, vanilla beans, Matcha powder, protein powder, and a drizzle of caramel and mocha.
Total Cost: 23.60 (with tax).
This puppy rocked an impressive 1400mg of caffeine and it looks like he lived to tell about it.
Anyone care to come up with an even more expensive Starbucks drink?
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An iced venti espresso with no ice or water and shots to the top (19) would actually be slightly more.
i love starbucks i thought the most expensive was $15 but wow 13.76 is great since i always get a frappucino
Thats ridiculous…i work at starbucks and some people get the most outrageous things. i havnt had a drink come out to be that much, but one time i had one that was like 8 or so..it was a frappucino(sp)im used to writing abreviations for everything…lol
oh and they wrote the drink wrong 13 shot venti ,s, hz, v, cd, xwm, m(because it says it on the receipt, XCR, latte im guessing? lol its easier to write on the cup
On the flipside:
The cheapest Starbucks drink ever – The $2 Venti latte – http://socialmediaguy.com/2008/08/26/how-to-get-a-venti-latte-for-2/#comment-473
I’m sooo getting one of these now :]
Btw, I’m 14 and about 110 pounds.
but you cant purchase more than 8 shots in one day
a veinte cup is 20 ounces, each shot is 1 ounce. 13 ounces of espresso, 15 pumps syrup + extra white mocha is prob 4 ounces, thats like 3 ounces milk, this drink is stupid and also adding same syrup doesnt cost money
which is why says add mocha and not white mocha
sorry to be debbie downer
@Branden- I doubt that 8 shots in one day rule applies everywhere. Canada has some strange caffeine laws and I doubt anyone that works at Starbucks would be seriously keeping track of each customer’s shot allotment.
I find it impressive that Starbucks could be so successful when the average price per product is so low. I know it’s expensive for coffee, but think about how many transactions they need to keep profits up.
How about just getting decaf espresso shots? or half of them decaf? That eliminates the whole lethal dose concern…lol
Putting aside the fact that the $23.60 drink doesn’t make sense (too much volume + you are only allowed to have iced coffee or tea in a trenta), the actual most expensive starbucks drink was documented about three months ago.
It cost $26.80 and actually was legit. See below.
http://www.arbistan.com/2011/12/citizen-spotlight-most-expensive.html