99 Bees Knees Cocktail Recipe
Recipe yields 1 cocktail.
Bees knees cocktail recipe - The honey syrup is easy to make make sure you mix it up until the honey dissolves. This cheery spring cocktail is made with simple ingredients you likely have in your pantry making it a great happy hour option when you don t want to make a special trip to the store. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Every bar and restaurant will put their own spin on a great cocktail like the bee s knees. It tasted exactly right. I had it in a 1920s throwback bar in boston and fell in love.
The phrase the bee s knees was used in prohibition times as slang to mean the best this cocktail a gin sour that s believed to have been created around that time used lemon and. Gin lemon juice and honey create a buzzworthy cocktail. Thanks for the recipe.
The bee s knees is a classic cocktail made with gin lemon and honey. The bee s knees is a classic prohibition cocktail that blends the crisp botanical flavor of gin with bright citrus and the soft floral notes of honey. I made the mistake of thinking i could just squeeze honey in with the gin but it made a goopy ball.
It s such a simple recipe that affords itself to some experimentation. You can multiply the ingredients and make up to 3 cocktails at once in a standard cocktail shaker. You can experiment and decide how.
For example hard rock international has bartenders shake up 2 ounces hendrick s gin 1 1 2 ounce sweet and sour and 1 ounce of honey syrup. Garnish with a lemon twist. Add 1 2 cup honey and 1 2 cup water to a small saucepan over medium heat.
