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Penicillin cocktail
A Whisky Sour with honey richness, subtle smoke and enlivening ginger spice. A cocktail to slap the palate awake. Then you can't resist keep sipping it
Erik Jensen
22nd December 2021 at 20:54
One of my all time favorites, but is the honey-ginger syrup recipe above really only 1:1? Seems strange since the gold rush and your version both use a 3:1 honey syrup.
23rd December 2021 at 08:22
Yes, as far as I'm aware it's 1:1. In the US it's common to use 1:1 simple sugar syrup while in UK and Europe richer 2:1 sugar syrup is the norm. I favour more concentrated syrups so dilution in the finished cocktail is more controllable. Plus a 3:1 honey syrup is less prone to fermentation prior to use than a 1:1.