Name: Tahitian Honey Bee
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light white rum; 20 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Honey and water syrup

Tahitian Honey Bee
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
²⁄₃ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

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Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Basically a lemon honey Daiquiri or a lemon Canchànchara - very tasty it is too.

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History:

Adapted from a recipe in Victor Bergeron's 1972 Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide (Revised Edition).

TAHITIAN HONEY BEE
½ ounce lemon juice
1 teaspoon honey
1½ ounces light Puerto Rican rum
Mix lemon juice and honey in shaker. Add rum. Shake with ice cubes. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Add a twist of lemon peel.
Variation: Increase rum to 2 ounces and honey to ¼ ounce.
Victor Bergeron, Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide, 1972

More cocktails by Victor Bergeron A.K.A Trader Vic

Nutrition:

One serving of Tahitian Honey Bee contains 164 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
18.58% alc./vol. (18.58° proof)
17.6 grams of pure alcohol

Difford’s Guide remains free-to-use thanks to the support of the brands in green above. Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

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G. M. Genovese

27th July 2024 at 12:54

Bacardi Carta Blanca was incredibly bland in this. I always use a honey syrup made 3:1 with raw honey... Banks 5 and 2 drops of saline solution improved this immensely... A characterful rum brand is key to cut through the bee goo.

John Hinojos

12th October 2023 at 00:02

Used a white Barbados rum and our honey syrup made from local honey bees. Also had tree ripened lemons. This was wonderful. The lightness of the rum comes through and the cocktail was nice a dry.

Andrew Wilkinson

23rd July 2023 at 20:10

I substituted the bacardi for captain morgans spiced rum, and it came out with a more layerful flavour. you get the rum, the sour then the long subtle clear note of honey at the end. Increase the honey syrup and decrease lemon juice for better smoother flavour.

lina linda

16th April 2022 at 19:15

3.5/5. It tastes a little bit like hot honey & lemon you would drink when you were sick as a kid, which tastes good but not as fresh as I would expect from a rum drink. Would still drink again though, good for winter months :)

Chris Dimal

28th March 2023 at 11:54

When I made this drink about two years ago, it's exactly that with Bacardi Carta Blanca. Lemon, honey and ethanol. A less botanical Gin Twist served cold. Since I love honey and citrus though, it's a great drink in my books. But I definitely see where you are coming from!