The Queen Bees Knees

Cocktail Ingredients:

1.5 oz Garnish Island Gin

.75 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

.5 oz Barrows Intense Ginger

1 oz Cinnamon Honey Syrup (recipe below)

Cinnamon Honey Syrup ingredients:

9 oz Honey

3 oz Hot Water

1 Teaspoon Cinnamon

Cinnamon Honey Syrup Recipe:

In a heat proof container add honey and cinnamon.  Boil water and pour over honey.  Mix together ingredients before the hot water cools until it is fully incorporated.  Add additional water if necessary.  The syrup should be thick but still watery when it cools so that it is easy to pour from a container.  After fully incorporated and cooled, bottle and store in the refrigerator.

The Queen Bees Knees Instructions:

In a shaker tin combine gin, honey syrup, ginger liqueur and fresh lemon juice.  Fill the shaker with ice and shake for 15 seconds or until ice forms on the outside of the shaker.  Using a hawthorne strainer and a tea strainer, double strain the cocktail into a coupe or martini glass.  Using a microplane, finely grate nutmeg over the top of the cocktail. Garnish with a wedge of beeswax or lemon peel.