Scottish Farm Offering UK's Most Expensive Coffee At $344 A Cup – CoffeeTalk

A Scottish dairy is offering the UK’s most expensive cup of coffee: 272 British pounds ($344) for a flat white, a double shot of espresso topped with a layer of steamed milk and a fleeting work of foam art. The costly cup is actually a perk for purchasing shares in Mossgiel Organic Dairy’s crowdfunding campaign to enlarge its sustainable operation and produce more milk. Investors who buy 34 shares in the farm get a certificate for a flat white that can be redeemed starting this weekend at one of 13 coffee shops in Scotland that use the dairy’s milk.

The price tops the eye-watering 265 pounds that Shot London, a coffee bar in the posh Mayfair and Marylebone neighborhoods, charged for a flat white made with rare beans from Okinawa, Japan. Before launching the coffee promotion, Bryce Cunningham had already raised more than a third of the 300,000 pounds he is seeking from small investors as he tries to get a 900,000 pound loan that will help him double operations and expand out of Scotland and as far as coffee shops in London.

Shareholders receive other rewards, such as farm tours, milk delivery discounts, and invites to special events. However, they are also given a standard warning that they could lose some or all of the money they invest — except for the coffee. The tenant farm in Mauchline, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Glasgow, was worked in the 18th century by poet Robert Burns, who penned “Auld Lang Syne” and many other well-known works.

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