{"id":1532,"date":"2010-09-25T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2010-09-25T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T19:49:02","slug":"the-bebbo-a-cocktail-even-a-bee-could-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"The Bebbo: A Cocktail Even a Bee Could Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, friends, this post marks the end of my first weeks back and they’ve been fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 Mixing up drinks, participating in MxMo, reviewing spirits, ah, it’s good to be back.\u00c2\u00a0 So, what of the Bebbo?\u00c2\u00a0 Allow me to say first that it was a fantastic drink to come back with.\u00c2\u00a0 The mix of gin, citrus and honey is truly divine.\u00c2\u00a0 Not overly sweet, a nice burst of sour from the lemon juice and a smooth sweetness from the honey.<\/p>\n

\"Bebbo<\/a><\/p>\n

Seems a good segue to the first experiment I wanted to conduct with this drink.\u00c2\u00a0 Specifically, does the variety of honey play a role in the final flavor?\u00c2\u00a0 As you may or may not be aware, the flavor of honey changes based on what the bees fed on primarily.\u00c2\u00a0 So, for example, around here we have clover honey and wild flower honey primarily.\u00c2\u00a0 In other locales you’ll find varieties such as sage, orange blossom, tupelo, buckwheat, heather, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 While my selection of honey certainly wasn’t vast I found that the variety of honey used in this drink didn’t have much affect on the end flavor.\u00c2\u00a0 This is due to the honey only comprising a small percentage of the final cocktail and the gin being floral by itself.\u00c2\u00a0 A couple tips regarding the honey.\u00c2\u00a0 One, make sure to heat it up a bit in the microwave.\u00c2\u00a0 I found about 20-30 seconds to be perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 That way the honey flows better and doesn’t get all stuck in your jigger.\u00c2\u00a0 Two, make sure you give the drink a good solid 30 seconds of shaking.\u00c2\u00a0 That will make sure the honey is completely dissolved.<\/p>\n

Which brings us along to the gin.\u00c2\u00a0 As with many gin cocktails the question I first asked was what gin should I use for this drink?\u00c2\u00a0 Should I go juniper forward, maybe citrus forward, something bold, something light?\u00c2\u00a0 Given the bold flavor of the citrus and honey I knew a light gin like Sapphire would get mostly lost, so I turned to something bolder and juniper forward, my old pal Tanqueray.\u00c2\u00a0 This gin is definitely my preference for this cocktail.\u00c2\u00a0 That said, you can certainly use anything you like or have on hand.\u00c2\u00a0 The citrus really dominates the flavor profile anyway.<\/p>\n

Finally, I mentioned in my intro for this drink that I wanted to experiment with vodka instead of gin to see what the real difference was.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll make the summary quick, the difference was huge.\u00c2\u00a0 The vodka Bebbo was still very good.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, I’d happily drink one were it served to me.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it lacked the subtle complexity that gin brings to the party.\u00c2\u00a0 Without this complexity the drink was a bit one noted.\u00c2\u00a0 My recommendation is this.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’ve sworn over and over you don’t like gin, try a light gin to start.\u00c2\u00a0 Sapphire and Plymouth are both great options.\u00c2\u00a0 Once you’ve built a taste for gin (hopefully) you can move on to bolder options.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it.\u00c2\u00a0 While summer is still in the air and you can still enjoy a meal outside I’d say mix up a light, fruity drink like the Bebbo and soak in the out of doors.\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, friends, this post marks the end of my first weeks back and they’ve been fantastic.\u00c2\u00a0 Mixing up drinks, participating in MxMo, reviewing spirits, ah, it’s good to be back.\u00c2\u00a0 So, what of the Bebbo?\u00c2\u00a0 Allow me to say first that it was a fantastic drink to come back with.\u00c2\u00a0 The mix of gin, citrus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[156,10,203],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-wrap-up","tag-bebbo","tag-recipe","tag-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}