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After the unveiling of Spectre at the beginning of December, anticipation for the new James Bond film is ramping up. With a confirmed cast and filming now underway, further details are trickling in about what we can expect from Daniel Craig's fourth outing as Ian Fleming's infamous MI6 agent. Most recently comes the announcement that Belvedere Vodka will be the spirit that will make up Bond's favoured cocktail: a vodka martini, shaken, not- oh, you know the one. To celebrate their partnership in Spectre, Belvedere will be releasing two limited edition James Bond bottles, available to the public in 2015.

With Bond's boozing habits in mind, GQ spoke to James Chapman, 007 aficionado and author of Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films, about the drinking culture of the UK's favourite super spy.

Know your order

James Chapman: "In the first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, Bond designs his own martini comprising three measures of Gordon's gin, one of vodka, and half a measure of Kine Lillet (vermouth), shaken until it's ice cold and served with a slice of lemon peel. He names it a 'Vesper' after his love interest, Vesper Lynd. Bond never drinks the Vesper again in all the books."

Non-spirits don't count

James Chapman: "In the novel of Live and Let Die, Bond drinks a Red Stripe beer, but when adding up his alcohol consumption for the day decides that "the Red Stripe didn't count."

Go big or go home

James Chapman: "Goldfinger opens with the line: "James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death". By the end of the first chapter he's sunk another double, followed by another when he meets Mr. Du Pont. Then he accompanies Mr. Du Pont for dinner, where he drinks two vodka martinis and a pint of pink champagne. This is probably the most Bond drinks in one session."

The name's failure, liver failure

James Chapman: "In Thunderball, Bond's medical dossier reveals that his average daily alcohol consumption is "in the region of half a bottle of spirits of between sixty and seventy proof"."

Champagne for breakfast

James Champan: "Bond has a preference for pink champagne, especially Taittinger, to drink with scrambled eggs."

Spectre will be released in UK cinemas on 23 October 2015