Bee's Knees co*cktail Recipe (2024)

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What is a bees knees drink made of? ›

A Bee's Knees co*cktail is made with just three ingredients – gin, honey, and lemon – but together they create a magical drink.

Tanqueray is a London-based gin known for its excellent quality and distinct flavor. Tanqueray's unique botanical blend adds depth to your Bees Knees. The co*cktail's herbal undertones work perfectly with the honey and citrus to bring out another dimension of flavor.

The only difference is that Bee's Knees uses honey syrup instead of sugar that's used to make a Gin Sour. As the co*cktail was created during the Prohibition era, it is believed that the honey was used to mask the bitterness of the bootleg gin. Although the honey also makes the co*cktail richer and easier to drink.

Simply that bees and knees rhyme. Bees carry pollen in sacks on their knees and the phrase, therefore, must mean that the bee's knees are full of good stuff, as in high quality pollen.

Noun. the bee's knees pl (plural only) (idiomatic, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool. synonyms ▲ Synonyms: cat's meow, cat's pajamas, dog's bollocks, the bomb; see also Thesaurus:best.

Empress gin has a dark blueish-purple hue that comes from a unique source: the butterfly pea blossom. Butterfly pea flower infusion changes the Empress 1908 gin to purple and will also change to various shades of pink and light lavender depending on the mixer.

Bee's Knees. The Bee's Knees co*cktail is something that has cropped up frequently on Gin Magazine over the years, especially because of the wonderful annual celebration Bee's Knees Week, launched by Caledonia Spirits a few years ago.

The bee's knees co*cktail has unclear origins. It was possibly invented by Frank Meier, an Austrian-born, part Jewish bartender who was the first head bartender at the Ritz in Paris in 1921, when its Cafe Parisian opened its doors. A 1929 news article attributes the co*cktail to Margaret Brown, an American socialite.

The Bee's Knees' beginnings were placed in the Prohibition era due to its inclusion of gin and its flapper-influenced name. Along with “the cat's pajamas,” “the flea's eyebrows,” and “the kipper's knickers,” the phrase “the bee's knees” was a popular expression in the 1920's.

Mead (/miːd/), also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops.

What gin is best for bees' knees? ›

According to Food & Wine contributor Brian Freedman, the Empress 1908 Indigo gin is an especially excellent pick to use in a Bee's Knees co*cktail.

The Bee's Kees is a Prohibition-era co*cktail featuring gin, lemon juice and honey. The unique name is a convention of the time: The phrase “bee's knees” was popular slang used to call something excellent or outstanding.

'That's the bee's knees' which means it is excellent, the highest quality. The phrase 'the bee's knees' came from the 18th century and it was a fanciful phrase that referred to something that didn't exist. A boss would send an apprentice to the store to pick up a left-handed hammer and a bag of bee's knees.

Honey is a sweet liquid made by bees.

Royal jelly is often referred to as a honey bee's version of “a mother's milk” and is a protein-rich secretion produced by worker bees. This milky substance is fed to all larvae for a short period of time during the honey bee life cycle, and is also fed to the developing queen bee in extra amounts.

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic cells built from beeswax by honey bees in their nests to contain their brood (eggs, larvae, and pupae) and stores of honey and pollen.

For winter stores a ratio of 2 parts sugar to 1 part water is used to provide a thick syrup. Do not feed a sugar syrup mix thinner than a 1:1 ratio as bees have to do too much work to retrieve the sugar.