Honey Cocktails

23 recipes, including Canchanchara, Lime & Honey Caipirinha, Macunaíma.

23 Honey cocktails, with ingredients and how to make them.

  • Canchanchara — A Cuban classic balancing rum, bright citrus, and the sweetness of honey syrup.
  • Lime & Honey Caipirinha — A classic caipirinha sweetened with honey, muddled before the ice goes in.
  • Macunaíma — A white cachaça cocktail with honey syrup and Fernet, served up.
  • Gold Rush — A bourbon sour balanced with honey syrup and lemon.
  • Solstício — A bridge for palates not yet used to Negroni-level bitterness, with Aperol, caramel vodka, and honey syrup.
  • Ring of Fire — Bourbon with cinnamon liqueur and honey syrup, served over ice with a torched cinnamon stick.
  • Jack Honey Limonade — A highball whiskey lemonade with honey, lime juice, and sparkling water, finished with lemon slices and lemon foam.
  • Garganta — A cachaça sour with muddled ginger, honey syrup, and triple sec, finished with loosely mixed aromatic bitters.
  • Penicillin — A Scotch sour with muddled ginger, honey syrup, and lime, served short in a rocks glass.
  • Brasa — A whiskey mule with fresh ginger muddled in honey and lime, lengthened with soda water.
  • Bourbon Limoncello Breeze — Bourbon shaken with limoncello, honey, rosemary, and lemon, served in a rocks glass over a big cube.
  • Bee's Knees — A Prohibition sour: gin, lemon, and honey syrup, shaken and served up.
  • Port Light — Bourbon tiki drink with lemon, honey syrup, passion fruit, and egg white, over crushed ice.
  • Golden Pine Whiskey — Honey whiskey and pineapple juice highball, built in the glass over ice.
  • Toblerone — Creamy cocktail of coffee, hazelnut, and Irish cream — a liquid dessert inspired by the Swiss chocolate.
  • Orchard Bee — Sour of apple brandy or green apple whiskey, with lemon, orange, and honey syrup.
  • Cinnamon Sour — Cinnamon liqueur sour with lime and honey syrup, shaken and served over fresh ice.
  • Air Mail — Classic of gold rum, lime, and honey syrup, topped with sparkling wine in a flute.
  • Coconut Honey Margarita — Blanco tequila margarita with Grand Marnier, lime, toasted coconut syrup, and honey syrup.
  • Crypto Currency — Zero-proof sour of alternative whiskey with lemon, honey syrup, and a touch of ginger.
  • Ouro de Tolo — Cynar sour with honey syrup, lime, and basil, egg white for foam in a rocks glass.
  • Gin Honey Old Fashioned — Old Fashioned of barrel-aged gin, honey syrup, and aromatic bitters, stirred in a rocks glass.
  • Golden Pear Honey Sour — Pear-infused gin sour with honey syrup and lemon, double-strained into a coupe.

More in this list

  • Non-alcoholic
  • Sour
  • Citrus
  • Bitter
  • Sweet
  • Strong
  • Refreshing
  • Fruity