In college, I challenged myself to focus on a single character for the duration of my painting course. That experiment became “Daredevil Neville”—a daring, creative, sly, and mischievous figure who quickly took over my sketchbooks. I drew him hundreds of times, and even after the course ended, I couldn’t stop.

Years later, while bartending, I found myself surrounded by bold aromas and unusual botanicals every night. I kept thinking, “What better way to share my art than to put him right in the bottle?” I remembered an old Scottish tale, The Bottle Imp, where a bottled imp grants wishes—always at a cost. It felt like the perfect way to bring together my art, my bartending craft, and my Scottish heritage. The idea stuck.

So I set out to craft a drink that captured the expressiveness of those botanicals, but without the alcohol—something rare, vibrant, and unmistakably unique.

That’s how The Bottle Imp was born, with Neville at its heart.