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No. 064 Cocktails · Gin

Bee's Knees

Dry gin with honey syrup, lemon and orange juice, shaken and served up.

A Bee's Knees in a coupe with a lemon twist, beside a carafe of honey syrup and half a lemon
A Bee's Knees Photo: Will Shenton, CC BY-SA 3.0

Recipe card

ml oz

Makes 1 drink · about 4 min to make

Ingredients

Ounces are US fluid ounces (29.57 ml), rounded.

Method

  1. Stir the honey syrup with the lemon and orange juices until it dissolves.
  2. Add the gin and shake with ice.
  3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon or orange zest, if you like.
Glass
Cocktail glass (coupe)
Garnish
Lemon or orange zest (optional)
Technique
Shaken
Difficulty
Easy

Printable recipe card Quantities as given in the IBA's official specification.

About the Bee's Knees

Honey gives this gin sour a rounder, floral sweetness. Dissolve the honey syrup into the juices before adding gin and ice.

Background

The Bee's Knees is a Prohibition-era cocktail.

Tags: honey gin sour

Go deeper

Sources

  1. IBA — Bee's Knees (official specification)
  2. Wikipedia — Bee's knees

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