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Bee Sting
A sweet heat gin cocktail
Course
Cocktails
Servings
1
Author
Elyse
Ingredients
Juice of half a lemon
Three dashes lavender bitters
½
tbsp.
mike’s hot honey
1.5
oz
Gin
Bleinheim’s Ginger Ale
sub: your favorite ginger beer
Crystalized ginger
Thyme
Large swath of lemon peel
Option: if you don’t have access to mike’s hot honey just add a dash of cayenne pepper
Instructions
In a cocktail shaker with no ice, dry shake the lemon juice, hot honey, and lavender bitters until the honey is dissolved
Add ice to the shaker –using a jigger pour in 1.5oz high quality gin
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds
Double strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice
Garnish with a sprig of thyme and a knob of crystalized ginger