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This simple but effective drink is made of just four ingredients, shaken and served in a chilled Martini glass.
How to make ...
Bees Knees
This is a pre-prohibition cocktail that’s been a favourite of drinkers and drinks makers for over 100 years. The Bees Knees is an elegant blend of gin, honey syrup, lemon juice and orange juice.
Method
Chill your martini glass or coupette in the freezer or fill with ice
Using your jigger to measure, add the gin, honey syrup and orange juice to your Boston glass or shaker
Squeeze 25ml of lemon juice and add to the shaker
Fill shaker with cubed ice and seal
Shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds
Strain into your chilled martini glass
Garnish with a lemon twist
Serve and enjoy
Equipment
Shaker
Jigger/Measure
Hawthorn Strainer
Elbow Press
Cubed Ice
History
Invented in the early 20th century by Austrian-Jewish bartender Frank Meier–who went on to become the first head bartender of the Ritz in Paris when its Cafe Parisian opened in 1921–the Bees Knees has been a stalwart of classic cocktail menus ever since, endlessly re-worked, twisted and elaborated, this drink has been the influence for countless variations but none quite compare to the original.
This simple but effective drink is made of just four ingredients, shaken and served in a chilled Martini glass. This is a drink with enough class to sit alongside manhattans and martinis but enough fun and flavour to be enjoyed (and made) by anyone.
Allergens
Ingredients
40ml Gin
20ml Honey syrup
10ml Orange Juice
25ml Lemon Juice/1/2 a Lemon
Lemon Twist for Garnish
Times:
Prep: 2 Minutes
Make: 1 Minutes
Total: 3 Minutes
Calories:
234
Servings:
1
Method
Chill your martini glass or coupette in the freezer or fill with ice
Using your jigger to measure, add the gin, honey syrup and orange juice to your Boston glass or shaker
Squeeze 25ml of lemon juice and add to the shaker
Fill shaker with cubed ice and seal
Shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds
Strain into your chilled martini glass
Garnish with a lemon twist
Serve and enjoy
Equipment
Shaker
Jigger/Measure
Hawthorn Strainer
Elbow Press
Cubed Ice
History
Invented in the early 20th century by Austrian-Jewish bartender Frank Meier–who went on to become the first head bartender of the Ritz in Paris when its Cafe Parisian opened in 1921–the Bees Knees has been a stalwart of classic cocktail menus ever since, endlessly re-worked, twisted and elaborated, this drink has been the influence for countless variations but none quite compare to the original.
This simple but effective drink is made of just four ingredients, shaken and served in a chilled Martini glass. This is a drink with enough class to sit alongside manhattans and martinis but enough fun and flavour to be enjoyed (and made) by anyone.
Allergens
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Video Transcription
Hi guys, Sasa here from TT Liquor. Today, I wanted to introduce one of our new drinks from our new cocktail menu for the masterclasses. It’s called The Bees Knees. For this, we hooked up with our friends from Brokers Gin, and it is just the perfect pairing for this little beauty of a cocktail. It’s sweet, it’s sour. It has honey in it and gin. What’s not to like? So have fun, I hope you like it. Enjoy.
Hi guys, I’m Kay. I am back here at TT Liquor. Today, I’m gonna be showing you how to make a really classic gin drink, this is a new cocktail for our cocktail class menu. We are gonna be making a Bees Knees.
First thing going in there is gonna be some gin. And I want about 40ml of my gin.
Next thing we need, and the thing that’s really gonna make this drink a Bees Knees is some honey syrup. And I want about 20ml of my honey syrup.
And we want about a shot or 25ml of our lemon juice.
Just gonna be adding about 10ml of our orange juice.
I’m gonna go ahead and fill that up with cubed ice, whack the tin on and give it a shake.
There we go, pop my tin on at an angle, big old smack to seal it. And we’ll give that a shake for around about 10 seconds, here we go.
Beautiful, alright, so I’m gonna crack that open. And then we’re gonna go ahead and strain our cocktail into the glass.
And for a garnish, I’ve just got a nice lemon twist. Twist that up over the glass, expel some of those oils, rub it around the rim. And I’ll just balance that on the edge of the glass.
And that, is our Bees Knees, ready to drink.
