Queen is set to release a new vodka in honour of their legendary singer Freddie Mercury.
The Queen-branded Killer Queen tipple will mark the 40th anniversary of the band's 1974 hit single of the same name, Contactmusic reported.
Guitarist Brian Ma, who recently visited the Stoli vodka production plant in Riga, Latvia, where the new drink was created, to oversee work on the beverage, called the place "the Willy Wonka chocolate factory for adults".
May also admitted that the vodka is a fitting tribute to the band's late frontman Mercury, who loved vodka and used to carry a dry ice cooler full of vodka with him on tour and Killer Queen Vodka is the perfect tribute."
Killer Queen, which is also the name of Katy Perry's latest perfume, is "seven times distilled using an ancient original vodka filtration process of quartz sand and birch charcoal with a unique filtration process at the final stage.
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