Ep. 41: Oh geez, try the Bee’s Knees - Bee’s Knees and Hot Honey Apricot Bee’s Knees

The Bee’s Knees is a prohibition era cocktail that’s finer than the frogs eyebrows. It deserves a place on your cocktail menu! The Bee’s Knees is a gin sour that swaps out simple syrup for honey syrup. The Bee’s Knees is easy to make, tastes delicious, and has pretty cool history. Jules puts a spicy apricot spin on this classic and gives us the 411 on honey.

Honey syrup recipe:

Equal parts honey and water 

Add honey and an equal amount of hot water to sauce.

Heat until honey incorporates into water - DO NOT BOIL

Let cool to room temperature and store in airtight container

Bee’s Knees recipe:

Chill your coupe glass 

In your boston shaker (28/18 tin on tin) add:

2oz gin, use a floral gin (contemporary or new western style gin) 

1 oz of FRESH squeezed lemon juice

½ oz honey syrup

Copious amounts of ice and shake!!!

Double strain using hawthorn and fine mesh strainer into coupe glass

Take a swipe of your lemon with your Y-peeler and express the oils over the drink and tip from Kaitlyn Stewart (@likeablecocktails) give the stem a rub with the lemon peel

Garnish with lemon twist, I like to clean up the lemon peel with a paring knife. Cut off rough edges and cut ends on a bias. Then twist around a bar spoon to make a curl. Then I add a notch mid-peel at a 45 degree angle so the twist can hang on the edge of the coupe glass.

Hot Honey Apricot Bee’s Knees

Hot honey syrup recipe

Exact same as the honey syrup recipe above - only you’re using hot (spicy) honey

Chill your coupe glass

Open one to two apricots, remove pits and add flesh to cocktail shaker

Add ¾ oz fresh lemon juice

Add ½ oz of hot honey syrup

Muddle 

Add 2 oz gin

Add ice and shake. 

Double strain into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with a lemon twist!

Tips: Knowing which honey to use with your cocktails

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