Bee’s Knees

Bee’s Knees

  • Type
    Cocktail
  • Primary alcohol by volume
    Gin
  • Served
    Straight up
  • Standard garnish
    Optionally garnish with lemon or orange zest
  • Standard drinkware
    Cocktail Glass
  • IBA specified ingredients
    52.5 ml dry gin
    22.5 ml lemon juice
    22.5 ml orange juice
    2 teaspoons honey syrup
  • Preparation
    Stir honey syrup with lemon and orange juices until it dissolves, add gin and shake with ice.
    Strain into chilled cocktail glass

A bee’s knees is a prohibition era cocktail made with gin, fresh lemon juice, and honey.

It is served shaken and chilled, often with a lemon twist.

The name comes from prohibition-era slang meaning “the best”.

References
Bee’s Knees (cocktail)

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