Bee’s Knees
Ingredients
- 1½ ounces Valentine Liberator Gin
- ¾ ounce Lillet Blanc
- ¼ ounce Aveze
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- ½ ounce Rooftop Honey Syrup* (see about this recipe)
- For garnish: bee pollen
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake vigorously for 4—7 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass over ice. Garnish with bee pollen.
Notes
*For the rooftop honey, Mabel Gray Bar Manager Paul Fradeneck extracts honey from the honeycomb by heating it in the oven for about 15 minutes, and then he presses the honeycomb through a fine-mesh strainer to separate the honey from the comb/wax. (The above step can be replaced by using already-strained honey.)
To make honey syrup, use a ratio of 2 parts honey to 1 part hot water. Fradeneck weighs the honey, then adds half of that weight in hot water and mixes.
“I find that the 2:1 ratio yields the level of sweetness and texture/viscosity that I am looking for,” he says.
