Bee’s Knees Recipe

We dont know much about the history of this cocktail, other than apocryphal stories about its invention as a way to cover up the acrid flavors of prohibition-era bathtub gin. Its first mentioned in print in 1948, in david embrys the fine art of mixing drinks. Embry talks some trash about the original equal-parts recipe for the drink, before suggesting its better as a variation on the gin sour. This is a recipe that lends itself well to herbal or floral gins, or old tom gin (which is a bit sweeter than your typical london dry). If you go the old tom route, drop the honey down a tad to compensate for the additional sweetness.