Honey, No Alcohol
Without alcohol there is nothing to hide behind. The honey is the drink.
Honey Lemon
- 25 ml fresh lemon juice
- 20 ml honey syrup, 3:1
- 120 ml soda water
Build over ice. Stir once. Lemon wheel.
Honey Lavender
- 20 ml honey syrup infused with lavender
- 25 ml lemon juice
- 120 ml soda water
Infuse by steeping one teaspoon of dried culinary lavender in the warm syrup for ten minutes, then strain. Longer than ten minutes and it turns soapy.
Hot Honey
- 20 ml honey syrup infused with chile
- 25 ml lime juice
- 120 ml soda water or grapefruit soda
Steep half a dried chile de arbol in the warm syrup for fifteen minutes. Taste before straining.
Agua de Miel
- 20 ml honey syrup
- 150 ml cold water
- Lime to taste
- Mint, pressed once
The simplest thing on this page and the hardest to fake. Four ingredients, one of which is water.
Ordering at a bar
Any competent bar can make the first one. Ask for lemon, soda, and honey syrup if they have it. Most bars keep simple syrup and not honey syrup, which is why the drink is usually better at home.
The honey
With no spirit in the glass, the honey is the only thing carrying flavour. Filtered supermarket honey makes sweet water. Raw monofloral makes a drink.