Merry Ginmas!!!

So some statistics for the Ginvent Doubters!

The cost of the Ginvent calendar (before postage) was £124.95 This does not of course account for the price of tonic water.

24 x Bombay and Sapphire @ Wetherspoons (calculated from their mobile app) would cost £95.76 (but then you only get 25ml - not a huge difference each day - but adds up to 120 ml or nearly 5 more G&Ts). 29 would come to £115.71

More on the level of the gins included - 6 Gin Tastings at OneSquare Edinburgh (which include 4 gins each time) would cost £177

Working out the actual price per dram (as divided from the price of the bottles) comes to £45.86 - of course the very last gin is not actually available outside of the calendar so I did an average of the prices throughout.

The cost of buying a bottle of each of the gins in the calendar (not including postage) would be £940.52

Now, it may be cheaper to go out each night and have a G&T (even accounting for the 5 extras) - but you wouldn't ever get the variety. Also, all of the gins are considerably more expensive than Bombay Sapphire anyway - which would only be £20.28 using the same calculations as I did per dram of the actual gins. This represents an 470% markup - which on the same calculations would mean the calendar would cost £261.40 - and I definitely did not spend £140 on tonic!

As a way of trying lots of quite rare and expensive gin for not too bad a price - I definitely recommend the calendar option!