
At a London cocktail trade show in London earlier this week, the Dead Man’s Fingers stall was causing a bottleneck. Bartenders and other interested parties blocked the aisles to get a taste of the spiced rum brand’s newest innovation, a hemp-flavoured spirit infused with CBD. The ingredient, mainly extracted from hemp but also present in cannabis, is already a big noise in the soft drinks scene. But, London’s cocktail cognoscenti haven’t seen anything like this before.