Vitamin Bee

Get your Vitamin Bee on with this spin on the “Penicillin” recipe – a modern cocktail with a classic taste. When I visited Australia I was introduced to Manuka Honey from New Zealand and it changed my life, so I wanted to make a delicious cocktail with it there were a few contender cocktails that would have been great but I eventually settled on making this delicious variation on the “Penicillin” cocktail.

I kept things fairly close to the classic recipe for this cocktail with the simple addition of some fresh strawberries, and instead of using a diluted honey syrup I went all in with the Comvita Manuka Honey because it is so damn delicious and as I now know, really healthy. The company that makes this honey actually sources it from the remote Kaimanawa region of New Zealand where it has to be extracted by helicopter.

Recipe:

• 2 ounces Scotch
• ¾ ounce lemon juice
• ¾ ounce Comvita Manuka Honey
• ¼ ounce smoky Islay single malt Scotch
• 3 small quarter-sized slices of ginger
• 3 fresh strawberries

Method:

1. In the bottom of a cocktail shaker muddle strawberries and ginger
2. Combine Scotch, lemon juice, and Comvita Manuka Honey in a shaker
3. Shake without ice to combine ingredients
4. Add ice to the cocktail shaker
5. Shake hard to chill and combine ingredients further
6. Fine strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice
7. Float smoky single malt scotch over the top
8. Garnish with candied ginger
9. Drizzle Comvita Manuka Honey over the top
10. Enjoy!