This wildly expensive gin comes with an old motorcycle part lodged in the bottle
How much are you willing to shell out for a bottle of gin? Maybe $20, or if you're feeling celebratory, something a little closer to $40?
How about $1,291, and the catch is that there's an old hunk of metal permanently lodged in the bottle? That's the idea behind a line of gins from German bike shop Ehinger Kraftrad.
Per Munchies, each bottle of The Archeologist gin features an engine part from a vintage Harley Davidson motorcycle.
A very serious promotional video for the line notes that the parts are sourced from "three classic Harley Davidson models: Flathead, Panhead and Knucklehead."
And as for the actual liquor? To quote the video, it's a "premium dry gin, flavored with the spirit of ingredients grown for over 80 years."
Per a press release from the company, each engine part gets a thorough cleansing before it's "sealed with a tin alloy" to ensure that it's food-safe. Each bottle is wrapped in sheet of paper detailing the origin of that bottle's part.
Drinking gin with Harley Davidson parts in it doesn't come cheap -- the bottles range in price from €900 to €1,100. But judging from The Archaeologist's website, where all three versions are currently sold out, it seems the high price is no deterrent.
Drink responsibly, Harley stans.
