Name: Blooded Knees Cocktail
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Gin; 20 ml Honey and water syrup; 22.5 ml Blood orange juice; 22.5 ml Lemon juice

Blooded Knees Cocktail
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Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Hayman's London Dry Gin
²⁄₃ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
³⁄₄ oz	Blood orange juice
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

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Garnish: Orange zest twist

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. (If using honey rather than honey syrup then use 3 spoons of honey.)

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Tart lemon and orange citrus notes are balanced by rich and flavoursome honey with the gin fortifying and adding botanical complexity.

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Variant:

Bebbo cocktail

History:

Adapted from the classic Bee's Knees, made bloody using blood orange juice.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Blooded Knees Cocktail contains 194 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
14.54% alc./vol. (14.54° proof)
18.2 grams of pure alcohol

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Peter McCarthy

27th October 2024 at 18:50

I made this with Hayman's London Dry and I feel like it was buried by the other ingredients. Delicious, but not as complex as anticipated. Might need to try a more "assertive" gin...

Avery Garnett

19th March 2023 at 18:28

Simple, delicious. How you manage to get a colour other than one that so red it is almost purple from the blood orange juice is beyond me, though

Simon Difford

20th March 2023 at 08:06

Blood oranges vary enormously in colour.

Joe Cornwall

12th March 2023 at 16:57

Isn't this just a Bebbo with better (imho) proportions?

Simon Difford

12th March 2023 at 21:42

Thanks, Joe. I hadn't connected the two cocktails but I've now added links between them.

Chris Dimal

7th February 2023 at 09:06

What in the world! One of the best cocktails ever! The blood orange contributes this fruitiness, complexity and colour which is unbeatable. I expressed a Blood Orange Twist for this one. Absolutely a 5 star drink.

Felicia Stratton

7th July 2022 at 22:15

Quite tasty. Mine was a deep ruby red because the oranges were so dark (and delicious). I love the Cocktail Finder - when I have a bundle of these I can search only on ‘blood oranges’ and pop! A delightful list of things to try - and Simon, A Big Thank You for such a remarkable website.

Simon Difford

8th July 2022 at 07:03

My pleasure! We love the growing community using what we've built and all of you contributing to help us improve it.

Jonathan Stephens

20th March 2022 at 12:52

Love it. More interesting colour and taste than Bees Knees (also nice)

G. M. Genovese

2nd February 2022 at 20:58

Immediate love. Lovely balance and depth. And it seems like this would be great with a bit of sparkling wine. At any rate, a great base for riffing. (2 Feb 2022, 3:58p)

Danielle Minkler

26th January 2022 at 11:52

Nice aperitivo drink! I additionally garnished with rosemary and next time I might also try smoking the glass with the rosemary. I might also add a quarter of aperol for complexity and to balance the citrus.