Gin

Lavender Bee's Knees

Gin, lemon, honey and lavender, shaken bright. A floral twist on the Prohibition classic.

Ingredients

Makes 1 drink

  • 2 oz gin
  • 0.75 oz fresh lemon juice
  • 0.5 oz Bench & Bloom lavender syrup
  • 0.25 oz honey
  • A lemon twist

Method

  1. Add the gin, lemon, lavender syrup and honey to a shaker with ice.
  2. Shake hard until cold and strain into a chilled coupe.
  3. Express a lemon twist over the top and drop it in.

Honey and lavender are old friends, and the Bee’s Knees gives them a gin backbone. The lemon brightens it and shifts the colour toward pink. Warm the honey slightly so it shakes in cleanly.

Start from a bottle of Bench & Bloom or a batch of lavender simple syrup.

Skip the steeping. Ours is already dialled in.

Summer harvest, available mid-July