In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Victory Gin is the cheap, oily drink the Party rations to its members. The Department's badge gives it the brand it deserves: a fist raising a bottle with a flaming rag, ringed by the promise To the Last Drop.
Part spirit label, part Molotov cocktail, the emblem turns up on a beer mat, a steel shaker and an enamel ice bucket on a dark bar counter.


