A mixture of honey and water (typically 1:1 or 2:1) that dilutes honey to a pourable consistency for easier mixing in cocktails. It adds floral, complex sweetness and is used in drinks like the Bee's Knees.

A Prohibition-era celebration drink treating a daiquiri with a champagne float and honey syrup, landing as a bright, fizzy, lightly floral toast with rum at its core.

Airmail

A mountain-fresh herbal cocktail -- gin and yellow Chartreuse with lime, honey, and mint for an alpine-garden inspired sour.

Alpine Spring

A simple pre-Prohibition gin cocktail sweetened with honey and brightened with both lemon and orange juice. It sits in the same family as the Bee's Knees but with a rounder, more tropical citrus profile.

Bebbo

A gin sour charged with honey syrup and fresh jalapeño, landing sweet and floral up front before a warming chili kick lingers on the finish.

Bee Sting

A spicy take on the Bee's Knees sour — gin, honey syrup, and lemon in egg-white foam with a hit of ginger syrup that delivers a warm, delayed heat on the finish, earning the cocktail its stinging name.

Bee Sting Sour

A Prohibition gin sour sweetened with honey instead of sugar, producing a floral, softly sweet drink whose name was 1920s slang for something irresistibly good.

Bee's Knees

The Prohibition-era Bees Knees with extra honey emphasis -- floral honey and lemon create a beautiful foil for gin's herbal backbone.

Bees Knees Honey

Bourbon's vanilla and caramel notes make for a sweeter, warmer Hot Toddy -- honey, lemon, and hot water complete this winter staple.

Bourbon Hot Toddy

Sam Ross's Penicillin reworked with bourbon -- the honey-ginger-lemon formula works beautifully without the Scotch, warmer and less peaty.

Bourbon Penicillin

A Prohibition-repeal Hollywood creation of bourbon, fresh grapefruit, and honey syrup, where the grapefruit's gentle bitterness meets honey's floral depth over rye-sweet whiskey.

Brown Derby

A Cuban predecessor to the Daiquiri, stirring light rum with honey and fresh lime over ice — a rustic, three-ingredient sipper with floral sweetness and bright tropical tartness.

Canchanchara

A three-ingredient Scotch sour of whisky, lime, and honey — a cousin to the Gold Rush and the Bee's Knees — balancing peat and smoke against floral sweetness.

Doctor

A tiki-house Daiquiri from Don the Beachcomber pairing dark and light rums with passion fruit and honey, yielding a lush, tart-sweet tropical sour with golden depth.

Don's Special Daiquiri

A golden, New Orleans-inspired short cocktail that pairs cognac with Bénédictine, bright lemon, and honey syrup — a richer, more spiritous cousin of the Bee's Knees that leans fully into French-style luxury.

French Quarter

Gin with honey, lemon, and ginger -- the Bee Sting's sweet-spicy-sour trifecta makes gin's botanicals sing in a memorable short cocktail.

Gin Bee Sting

A garden-inspired gin sour -- honey and elderflower amplify gin's floral botanicals while lemon keeps everything lively and bright.

Gin Honeybee

A modern Milk & Honey creation swapping simple syrup for honey in a bourbon sour, giving the drink a rich, floral, almost buttery sweetness against bright lemon.

Gold Rush

Sam Ross's modern classic shaking bourbon with honey syrup, lemon juice, and egg white into a silky, golden sour where floral honey rounds the whiskey's edges.

Gold Rush Sour

A Japanese-inspired hot cocktail blending gin's botanicals with green tea, honey, and lemon for a delicate, warming herbal sip.

Green Tea Cocktail

A Prohibition-era three-ingredient classic where light rum is softened by honey syrup and brightened with lemon for a rounded, golden little sour.

Honey Bee

Bourbon with fresh lemon and honey syrup topped with soda -- a Southern-style lemonade that's refreshing, floral, and perfectly balanced.

Honey Bourbon Lemonade

The honeyed Daiquiri — swapping simple syrup for honey syrup adds a rich, floral sweetness that rounds the rum-lime framework into something a touch more luxurious and aromatic than the classic, bridging the Daiquiri and the Bee's Knees.

Honey Daiquiri

Named for John 'Honey Fitz' Fitzgerald — Boston's beloved mayor and JFK's maternal grandfather — this rye sour splits the citrus between lemon and orange, with honey syrup for sweetness. Lively, balanced, and imbued with Boston Irish charm.

Honey Fitz

Gin with honey and ginger in a long lemonade format -- warming ginger and floral honey complement gin's botanicals over ice.

Honey Ginger Lemonade

A Bee's Knees-adjacent bourbon sour that swaps simple syrup entirely for honey syrup — the honey's floral sweetness and viscosity create a richer, more golden version of the classic sour with a beautiful silky foam.

Honey Sour

A simple daiquiri variation sweetened with honey syrup in place of sugar. The floral honey adds depth and a wildflower sweetness that pairs beautifully with rum and fresh lime.

Honeysuckle Daiquiri

The ur-cold remedy, warming bourbon with honey, lemon, and hot water for a soothing, lightly medicinal mug that tames a winter chill or a sore throat.

Hot Toddy

A Japanese-inflected whisky sour that uses yuzu juice in place of lemon and honey syrup for sweetener — yuzu's complex citrus flavor (somewhere between grapefruit, lemon, and mandarin) is a natural partner for Scotch, and the egg white gives a silky foam finish.

Japanese Sour

Honey's floral character approximates a lavender Old Fashioned -- bourbon warmed with herbal sweetness and Angostura spice.

Lavender Old Fashioned

A blended, frappé-style Don the Beachcomber tiki built from light rum, peach brandy, honey, lime, fresh mint, and pineapple — tasting like a green, herbal orchard smoothie.

Missionary's Downfall

An old Royal Navy ration turned tiki icon pairing light and dark rums with honey, lime, and grapefruit, yielding a dry, bracing long drink that drinks its weight with ease.

Navy Grog

Trader Vic's Navy Grog with three rums -- aged, light, and dark -- with grapefruit, lime, and honey for a complex, sailor-worthy tiki punch.

Navy Grog Fresh

Don the Beachcomber's mid-century tiki masterpiece — a three-rum blend of light, dark, and aged rum layered with orange juice, lime, honey, and bitters for a lusciously tropical, complex, and deeply satisfying island sipper.

Pearl Diver

Sam Ross's modern classic pairing blended Scotch, honey-ginger syrup, and lemon with a peated Islay float, producing a warming, smoky, cold-remedy-styled whisky sour.

Penicillin

Dark rum's molasses and spice swap in for whiskey in the Hot Toddy -- especially comforting on a cold night with its tropical backbone.

Rum Hot Toddy

The Penicillin template with aged rum -- tropical molasses and vanilla notes from the rum create a sweet-spicy-citrus variation with Caribbean warmth.

Rum Penicillin

Scotch with honey and lemon in a frothy egg-white sour -- honey's floral sweetness softens Scotch's smoke while lemon adds brightness.

Scotch Honey Sour

Scotland's cold-weather remedy -- smoky Scotch with honey, lemon, and hot water with a cinnamon stick for warming aromatic spice.

Scotch Hot Toddy

A modern vodka sour created by Salvatore Calabrese, layering elderflower's floral sweetness with lime, honey, and a muddled chili kick that leaves a slow burn on the finish.

Spicy Fifty

The Penicillin's honey-ginger-citrus framework with tequila and lime -- agave's herbal character makes a vibrant, Mexican take on the modern classic.

Tequila Penicillin

Don the Beachcomber's Morse-code tiki tribute — three cherries, one pineapple — layering aged rum with falernum, allspice dram, honey, and citrus into a warmly spiced, amber tropical sipper.

Three Dots and a Dash

A tropical variation on the classic Fix -- aged rum with pineapple, lime, and honey built over crushed ice with fresh mint.

Honey Syrup