Name: Bee Sting
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Rye whiskey 50% abv; 25 ml Reposado tequila; 45 ml Apple juice; 7.5 ml Honey and water syrup; 50 ml Ginger ale

Bee Sting
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
⁵⁄₆ oz	Straight rye whiskey (100 proof /50% alc./vol.)
⁵⁄₆ oz	Patrón Reposado tequila
1 ¹⁄₂ oz	Apple juice/apple cider (cloudy & unsweetened)
¹⁄₄ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
1 ²⁄₃ oz	Thomas Henry Ginger Ale

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Garnish: Apple slice

How to make:

SHAKE first 4 ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with ginger ale

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Delicately spirituous spiced honeyed apple interplay in this long, refreshing cocktail.

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History:

Adapted from a cocktail discovered in 2005 at The Royal Exchange Grand Café & Bar in London, England.

Nutrition:

One serving of Bee Sting contains 166 calories

Alcohol content:

1.2 standard drinks
10.86% alc./vol. (10.86° proof)
16.6 grams of pure alcohol

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G. M. Genovese

16th September 2024 at 10:42

Pretty solid recipe, if not unique. Perhaps the Fever Tree Ginger Beer was a bit heavy handed here, but I can still taste enough of the other ingredients... I kinda want another.