Turning a drink a specific shade of red on demand is a technical problem before it is a marketing one. The Illusionist Distillery in Munich built this edition with FC Bayern so that a dark, bramble-coloured spirit becomes the club's red the moment tonic is added, and hitting one exact colour is harder than simply changing from one to another. Bottled at 45%.

Eleven botanicals sit behind the effect, and the fruit half is what gives the base its depth of colour before anything is poured. Blackberry is the darkest of them, sweet and slightly earthy with the seedy quality brambles carry, and it settles generously across the middle. Lime works directly against it from above, green and sharp, and the contrast is what stops the berry reading as jam. Red clover is the unexpected one: a meadow flower with a faint hay-like sweetness, it adds a floral layer that neither the fruit nor the citrus could supply, and it accounts for the herbal edge in an aroma that would otherwise be purely fruity. Juniper draws a clean line through the middle and keeps the recipe honest. Fresh, fruit-led and herbal is the summary, with the berry and the citrus sharing the front.

A gin and tonic is the only build that shows the transformation, so pour the tonic slowly over ice and watch it happen. Keep the tonic neutral; a flavoured one would dull the colour as well as the fruit. A wedge of lime follows the recipe and cuts the berry at the same time. Highballs work too, provided the citrus and the blackberry stay legible. A colour trick sells the first bottle; the blackberry and the clover are what would sell a second. Eleven botanicals behind a piece of stagecraft is more than the stagecraft required. It closes fruity, floral and fresh.