Booze-mad bloke accidentally splashed out £55,000 on 'most expensive beer in history'

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READ MORE: More than 70% of UK pubs could close this winter over 'grave' cost of living uncertaintyHowever, he soon saw that the bartender had spotted a mistake and was giggling at the blunder.

Lalor then received a shocking phone call telling him he'd been charged $99,983.64 Australian dollars for just one bottle of beer - a staggering £55,000.He was also walloped with a service charge amounting to £1,382 - which alone could have bought him a whopping 251 more IPAs at the central Manchester establishment."See this beer?

That is the most expensive beer in history," Lalor, who writes about beer and cricket for The Australian, joked on Twitter."I paid $99,983.64 for it in the Malmaison Hotel, Manchester the other night.

Seriously."It's a good beer. The original version of it won a heap of awards, including the Supreme Champion Beer of Britain, but if you are thinking that no beer is worth the best part of $100,000, then I am inclined to agree with you," he continued.He proceeded to recount the entire ordeal to his 50,000-plus Twitter followers, before explaining how the mistake had come about."I didn't have my reading glasses when she presented me with a bill for the beer and when she had some problems with the machine I didn't think much of it, but it was eventually resolved, I said I didn't want a receipt and she went to leave."Something, however, made me ask: 'How much did I just pay for that beer'."She checked, covered her mouth, started to giggle and refused to tell me, saying only there had been a mistake and she would fix it.