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Today, I ran across a blog post by Jacob Grier in which a guy named Billy Chasen claimed to have ordered the most expensive drink possible at Starbucks. His drink totaled $13.76. In his post he extended a challenge to anyone who thought they could come up with a more expensive drink.

I am a regular at Starbucks and I knew my favorite baristas would be more than up to the challenge so I thought, why not? I might as well see how much money I can blow on a cup of coffee.

I walked into the coffee shop and told the baristas that I needed them to make me a drink that cost more that $13.76. After about ten minutes of discussing their plan amongst themselves, they came up with a nice and pricey concoction. Interestingly, the trickiest part of the task was not creating a drink more expensive than Billy’s mocha, but creating a drink more expensive that could still fit into a cup.

Eventually, my baristas succeeded. They crafted a $14.05 mocha. Well, to be exact, it was a peppermint white chocolate mocha with half organic milk, half breve, extra caramel, extra mocha, and thirteen shots of espresso.

Here is a copy of my receipt:

The first five or so sips weren’t so bad. After that, however, it went downhill. This is me cringing while attempting to drink it:

Here is a bird’s eye view of the actual mocha. Thick, bitter, and hard to swallow:

So, I now extend the same challenge to anyone who thinks they can come up with a Starbucks drink more expensive than $14.05.

An unexpected change was added to Louisville’s smoking ban. The CJ now reports that the new ban includes

“a requirement that business owners call police if their customers refuse to stop smoking inside.”

Yup, that’s right. You are now required by law to call the police if your customers smoke a legal substance on your own property.

Update: This is a part of the proposed ban.