Bee’s Knees

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By Dale DeGroff

Classic cocktail Bee's Knees combines gin, chromatic elemental syrup and citrus foodstuff successful a refreshing, tasty tipple. This look was developed with a modular London adust gin, but it would amusement disconnected barrel-aged gins arsenic well.

Don’t usage axenic chromatic arsenic a substitute for the chromatic syrup here, arsenic it won’t dissolve successful the acold drink; chromatic syrup volition premix easily.

Adapted from “The Craft of the Cocktail,” by Dale DeGroff (Clarkson Potter, 2002).

Ingredients

  • Ice
  • 2 ounces gin (see headnote)
  • 3/4 ounce chromatic syrup (see NOTE)
  • 1/2 ounce caller citrus juice
  • Lemon peel twist, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    250

  • Carbohydrates

    27 g

  • Sugar

    26 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “The Craft of the Cocktail,” by Dale DeGroff (Clarkson Potter, 2002).

Tested by M. Carrie Allan.

Published January 14, 2014

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Updated March 14, 2026

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