The Bees Knees

Hey, this is Rick Dobbs, owner of the Last Word Bar in beautiful Livermore, California. Today we're going to make one of the few cocktails that actually came out of prohibition that we still One of the best ways to make any cocktail is always using fresh local ingredients when you can. So let's go find them. When cocktails have juice, fresh is best. The best place to find fresh juices is a fresh lemonade stand. I One of the reasons why it's called a bee's knees is, well, because there's honey in it, but bees are freaking scary, so I found a better way. What I want to do is go out in the woods and get the fresh stuff. One of the last ingredients we Now we try to get the freshest one we can, and I do this not because I really think it makes the cocktail taste better, but mostly because I hate chickens. So in order to get the freshest one, we thought we'd get it right from the chicken itself. Yes, there we go. Probably a little bit out of my mouth. Now that we have our ingredients together, we want to put it all into our shaker with a healthy dose of ice and make sure we get some good agitation there. And as we do with any sister's cocktail, we're going to shake the hell out of it, or we can have her do it. I only needed one drink, but I wanted to have her shake them both. Always double strain shaking cocktail. And I