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.

For those seeking a classic yet elevated Bee's Knees, consider gins like Hendrick's for its infusion of rose and cucumber or Lifted Spirit's Bright Gin with its citrus-forward notes, adding an easy-sipping character ideal for co*cktails.

: an excellent or much liked person or thing. She's the bee's knees.

The bee's knees vintage co*cktail is a Prohibition era drink that is still perfectly delicious today! Just shake your favorite gin, some fresh lemon juice & honey simple syrup (so easy!) until ice cold and serve in a coupe glass with a twist.

"Early in the book I spoke in disparaging terms of the Bee's Knees. This, however, was because as it originally came out during prohibition days it consisted of equal parts lemon juice, honey, and gin. If made as a variation of the standard Gin Sour, merely substituting honey for the sugar syrup, it is acceptable."

The Tom Collins is similar to a Bees Knees but without the honey, with the sweetness provided by sugar syrup instead. If you like how gin and lemon interact in the Bees Knees co*cktail, the Tom Collins has a similar flavor profile with an extra splash of soda water for a refreshing fizz.

(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. We had strawberry shortcake for breakfast on Saturday and the kids thought it was the bee's knees.

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.

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.

Is the bees knees a British saying? ›

But even though the US first came up with bees knees, it was actually the Brits who revived it, along with our own dog's bollocks, in the 70s and 80s. In particular, Viz magazine was always fond of these expressions (their hardback 1989 "omnibus edition" was called The Dog's Bollocks).

The bees' knees is also the name of a classic co*cktail with other names like the Bumble Bee. It's easy to make - and it's my first choice for a co*cktail to welcome spring. Think of a Tom Collins but with organic honey as a natural sweetener instead of sugar.

Add gin, lemon juice, and honey syrup to a co*cktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled, about 15 seconds. Strain into a chilled coupe glass.

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.

Nehi (/ˈniːhaɪ/ NEE-hy) is a flavored soft drink that originated in the United States.