Ingredients

  • 2 ounces gin, preferably Barr Hill Reserve Tom Cat Barrel Aged Gin
  • 1 ounce lemon juice
  • 1 ounce honey syrup

Directions

Combine with ice. Shake. Strain. (Or just build in the glass and stir.)

Sources

Classic Cocktail

Comments

2025-11-29 (Jack)

The previous comments don’t really explain how we arrived at the build currently noted herein, but we’ve made a ton of these, so I can certainly say I’m confident in this build.

2022-09-20 (Jack)

This is also good with lime juice, but that does basically just make it a gimlet.

2022-09-09 (Jack)

I made this tonight, and it was pretty good. The gin really shines through (in a good way), so it seems like it’s likely important to use a high quality gin. Thankfully, I used the SMWSA Pollinator (Cask GN5.3) Scottish Gin (from Glenrinnes distillery), so this turned out quite good. The first sip was quite sour, but after a few more sips, the flavors really balanced each other out. The honey and the lemon (i.e., sweet and sour) really balanced each other nicely, which allowed the flowery flavors of the gin to shine through. The juniper of the gin was super subtle, but I think that’s more of a feature of the gin than of the drink.

I made a second one - this time with Beefeater. Beefeater is a middle tier gin (nothing special, solid rail gin) that’s much more in the London Dry style (i.e., with more forward juniper). I also used more honey syrup (3/4oz). It was actually better this way, with all of the flavors “turned up”. I could actually taste the honey, but it was still well-balanced against the lemon. The juniper-forward London Dry style gin also stood up against the honey and lemon better than the more flowery gin in the previous version.