Prohibition-era New York.
| 2 oz · 60 ml | GIN | 40 % |
| ¾ oz · 22 ml | HONEY SYRUP | |
| ¾ oz · 22 ml | LEMON JUICE |
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
1 oz taken as 30 ml in the metric column.
| Pre-batch | 3.5 oz mixed with ice, 0.8 oz of it pure alcohol |
|---|---|
| Melt | Shaken: +20 % of the pre-batch, +0.7 oz of water |
| Served | 3.5 + 0.7 = 4.2 oz in the glass |
| Strength | 0.8 ÷ 4.2 = 19.0 % ABV as served |
| Ethanol | 0.8 oz × 29.57 ml × 0.789 g/ml = 19 g · about 131 kcal from the alcohol alone |
FROM GIN
The pine note in juniper berries, and the reason gin tastes like a forest. Co-distilled with the spirit during production. Found in actual pine trees, rosemary, basil, and a good London Dry. The "Christmas tree" smell of gin and the smell of a forest floor share a single molecule.
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FROM LEMON · the lemon aroma
Lemon's defining note: technically a mix of two geometric isomers (geranial and neral) that read as the same aroma to the nose. Lemon peel, lemongrass, lemon verbena, and Indian chai all carry it. In cocktails it's what a lemon twist contributes that lemon juice can't: the volatile expressed from the oil glands, not the acid from the pulp.
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Gin, lemon and honey syrup. Alpha-pinene from juniper sits under citral from lemon, and honey adds body and faint floral tones. A Prohibition-era drink: the honey is said to have masked the bathtub gin's rougher notes.
Honey is said to have been added to gin to mask the off-notes of bathtub spirits. The phrase 'the bee's knees' was 1920s slang for excellence; paired with the honey, the name was inevitable. Frank Meier at the Hôtel Ritz Paris is sometimes credited with codifying the recipe (gin, honey syrup, lemon).
