Honey-infused cocktails are gaining speed as a bar favorite and whether your tipple is gin, rum or bourbon, there’s a honey cocktail somewhere this autumn calling your name. Drink Me Magazine has the Top Ten List from around the country and where to find ‘em.
Photo: Chris Wessling
The Magarian @ Carson Kitchen | Las Vegas, NV, $13
Ingredients:
- Aviation gin
- Thyme and honey syrup
- Fresh lemon
- Mr. Q Cumber soda
Mama Juan @ Last Rites | San Francisco, CA, $14
Ingredients:
- Aged rum
- Cocchi Americano
- Nocino
- Punt é Mes
- Lime
- Spiced yerba maté honey
- Ginger beer
Eastern Medicine @ Wewatta Point | Denver, CO, $12
Ingredients:
- Buffalo Trace
- Honey
- Yuzu and ginger topped with Laphroaig Mist
Penicillin @ Little Dom’s | Los Angeles, CA, $12
Ingredients:
- Famous Grouse blended scotch
- Hhouse-made ginger syrup
- Lemon
- Clover honey
- Atomized Laphroaig 10
Outlaw Cocktail @ Pie Tap Pizza Workshop + Bar | Dallas, TX, $11
Ingredients:
- Milagro tequila
- Ancho Verde Poblano Chile liqueur
- Fresh lemon juice
- Honey
- Syrup
- Ginger beer
- Tajin spiced rim
Texas Evergeen @ F&R Distilling Co.’s Whiskey Ranch | Fort Worth, TX, $8
Ingredients:
- Honey
- Lemon juice
- TX Straight Bourbon
- Sage leaves
Photo: Kirsten Holliday
Santorini @ Geraldine’s at Kimpton Hotel Van Zandt | Austin, TX, $13
Ingredients:
- Clement Canne Bleue rum
- Coconut water
- Pineapple juice
- Honey syrup
- Greek yogurt
Honeygroni @ Honey Salt | Vancouver, Canada, $16
Ingredients:
- Botanist gin
- Sweet vermouth
- Averna
- Amaro Montenegro
- Honey syrup
Eastern Influence @ Henley | Nashville, TN, $12
Ingredients:
- Del Maguey Vida Mezcal
- Aperol
- Honey
- Blue plum
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
Sex on the Beach @ Ever Bar at the Kimpton Everly | Los Angeles, CA, $15
Ingredients:
- Tito’s vodka
- Honey vinegar (a combination of honey and champagne vinegar)
- Pineapple juice
- Crimson berry and peach tea syrup
- Egg white
- A scoop of fresh peach jam
