{"id":46421,"date":"2022-08-03T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/cocktail-of-the-week-the-bees-knees\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T15:23:58","slug":"cocktail-of-the-week-the-bees-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterofmalt.com\/blog\/post\/cocktail-of-the-week-the-bees-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail of the Week: the Bee\u2019s Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time to dust off your dancing shoes, put on some Duke Ellington and shake a leg, as we make the ultimate Jazz Age gin cocktail, the Bee’s Knees. It\u2019s the business.<\/b><\/p>\n

There\u2019s an easy way to spot a cocktail that was created or popularised during Prohibition, look for sugar and fruit juice. Cocktails like the Bronx<\/a>, the Southside<\/a> (apparently Al Capone\u2019s favourite) and our Cocktail of the Week, the Bee\u2019s Knees, contained lots of both mainly to hide the fact that the gin you were drinking wasn\u2019t exactly Tanqueray. It might not even be gin. David A. Embury in <\/span>The<\/span><\/i> Fine Art of Mixing Drinks<\/span><\/i><\/a>, first published in 1948 when Prohibition was still a recent memory, refers to such concoctions as \u2018pernicious recipes.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n