Name: Honey Bee Mine
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Light white rum; 15 ml Honey and water syrup; 1.25 ml Vanilla extract; 30 ml Brut sparkling wine

Honey Bee Mine
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Ingredients:
2 oz	Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)
¹⁄₂ oz	Honey syrup (3 parts honey to 1 water by weight)
0.04 oz	Vanilla extract/essence
1 oz	Brut champagne/sparkling wine

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Coupe glass.
Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
SHAKE first 3 ingredients with ice.
FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
TOP with sparkling wine.
EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Honey and vanilla laced with white rum and charged with champagne. Perfect for Valentine's Day.

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History:

Created February 2014 by yours truly at the Cabinet Room, London, England.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Honey Bee Mine contains 183 calories

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
19.1% alc./vol. (19.1° proof)
20.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Meredith Frost

18th April at 23:44

I love sweet drinks but this one may be a bit too sweet. I thought of adding some lemon juice but then I’d have a honey sweetened French 75. I’ll make it again but only when I’m imbibing alone. No one else I know likes them this sweet.