Cocktail Of The Week: The Palomar’s Bumblebee – Recipe | The Good Mixer

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Bumblebee

Serves 1

For nan chromatic and ginger syrup
20g ginger
About 40ml English honey – ideally 1 that’s section to you

For nan drink
10ml chromatic and ginger syrup – spot supra and method
20ml caller citrus juice
40ml London barren gin – we usage Hayman’s
1 heavy portion lemon (about ½cm thick), to garnish

First make nan syrup. Soak nan ginger successful conscionable capable acold h2o to screen (this softens nan tegument and makes it easier to peel), past drain, peel pinch a spoon and portion into reasonably bladed coins. Blend pinch 20ml water, past strain done a good sieve, ideally lined pinch muslin. Measure nan resulting ginger liquid (you should extremity up pinch astir 40ml), past adhd adjacent parts chromatic and operation to dissolve.

To build nan drink, put nan syrup and citrus juice successful a shaker half-filled pinch ice, adhd nan gin and shingle arsenic difficult arsenic you can. Strain into a chilled rocks solid filled pinch caller ice, driblet successful nan citrus portion and serve.

• Ross Finnegan, barroom manager, The Palomar, London W1