Drinks

Bee’s Knees

  • Serves

    makes 1 Cocktail

PENNY DE LOS SANTOS

Kansas City's Rye restaurant pours this classic, a honey-sweetened gin potion, which gets its effervescence from a splash of rose champagne. This recipe first appeared in the iPad edition of our August/September 2013 Heartland issue with the story Mom and Populist.

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp. grated lemon zest
  • ½ oz. honey
  • 1½ oz. gin
  • Brut Rosé Champagne, for topping

Instructions

Step 1

Stir lemon zest, honey, and 1 oz. hot water in a cocktail shaker. Add gin and ice; cover and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled champagne flute and top with Champagne.

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