Bees Knees Cocktail Recipe

Bees Knees is a Gin Sour variation that replaces simple syrup with honey syrup. A Prohibition-era cocktail from the 1920s, made with gin, lemon, and honey to mask poor-quality spirits.

Ingredients

  • 2 oz Gin
  • 0.5 oz Lemon Juice
  • 0.5 oz Honey Syrup

Method for creating a Bees Knees cocktail

Shake with ice and strain into chilled glass

Garnish

Lemon peel

Glassware

Coupe

Ice

No Ice

Nutrition Information for Bees Knees

  • Calories: There are 171 kcal in Bees Knees
  • ABV: Bees Knees has an ABV of 27%

Calorie Breakdown for Bees Knees

IngredientDoseCal/ozCalories
Gin2 oz70 cal/oz140 kcal
Lemon Juice0.5 oz6 cal/oz3 kcal
Honey Syrup0.5 oz55 cal/oz28 kcal
Total171 kcal

ABV Breakdown for Bees Knees

Cocktail booziness measures the amount of alcohol in a drink, expressed both as total alcohol volume (ml) and as a percentage of Alcohol By Volume (ABV) of the overall drink size.

IngredientDoseABV%Alcohol (ml)
Gin2 oz40%24.0 ml
Total alcohol24.0 ml
Cocktail size89 ml
ABV = 24 / 89 × 10027%

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