Back in 1962, Winston Churchill, then the Prime Minister of the UK, was recovering from a broken hip in Middlesex Hospital in London. A vile of blood was drawn and has been kept safe ever since.

The big news is that it is now up for auction at Dukes auction house in Dorset and will only cost about £600 (that’s the estimate, anyway).

Marcus O’Shea heard about this all the way from Germany and he got a bit excited. You see, Marcus makes craft booze, and he wants to make a gin with Winston’s blood in it.

Vice managed to get a hold of this guy for a quick interview.

On the choice of gin as the spirit?

I’ve always had an undying thirst for the blood of the ruling class, so, you know, I just wanted to turn it into the most palatable form of liquid I could drink. And pay homage to an old dead guy—I’m gonna make it a London dry.

How did he know he could put blood into gin?

It’s actually been a running project with me and certain friends of mine that, whenever we’re really bored at parties, we have really loud discussions about the most disgusting things you could technically distill into an alcohol. At a garden party, we were coming up with in-depth plans for how to harvest enough cum to make a semen alcohol.

Will the gin taste like Winston Churchill’s blood?

If I ferment the blood and distill it through my refraction still, it’s going to actually come out as quite a smooth, tasteless alcohol, aside from whatever botanicals I put in it. That’s why I’m thinking of using it as a flavouring instead, because I really want to know what that old guy’s blood tastes like. Maybe even soak a bunch of juniper berries in his blood and kind of do a blood-berry thing.

Amazing. Revolting, but amazing.

Read the full interview with Vice HERE, where they talk about whether this would be classified as cannibalism or not…