Bee’s Knees
October 29, 2024
Recipe on liquor.com.
Everything about this drink just screams “Prohibition Era”. The name, of course, means “the best” in the lingo of the time. The addition of lemon and honey to gin was to mask the terrible smell and flavor of the illegal “bathtub gin”. Many gin cocktails owe their existence to bathtub gin – anything to help get it down.
What was America EVEN THINKING with 13 years of Prohibition? That was a bunch of baloney. It was phonus balonus. Denying people their giggle juice was first-class applesauce.
This drink is swell, and I actually don’t taste the honey at all, just sweetness. The recipe I followed uses a “honey syrup” – honey and water mixed on the stove, and then only a half ounce is put in the drink. What I can taste is the gin! And this skirt has no beef with that.
(Originally posted May 14, 2020)
