The Spicy Honey Penicillin
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Smoky, spicy, sweet, and tangy. Just the way we like 'em.
by Erin Henderson
My dad’s a whisky man.
Shockingly, he doesn’t really like cocktails. Sure, he’s the guy behind the ingenious Dave’s Manhattan, the recipe of which I’ve shared in our newsletter, on Instagram, and You Tube a few times, and he’s been known to down a G+T or two in the summer, but other than that, he’s more likely to take a healthy three-finger pour on ice as his apéro of choice.
So imagine my surprise – and chagrin – when he polished off my Scotch cocktail while we were having drinks a little while ago.
I suppose I should thank him, really; it was his enthusiastic lapping up of my drink that inspired me to go in search of the ingredients to recreate it for him at home. This was a little over a year ago, and I've been making it ever since.
This is a very slight riff on a classic Penicillin cocktail, a drink made with a base of peaty whisky and balanced out by honey and lemon and garnished with ginger. I've made a few alterations, but I think it's just as good. Maybe better. And my dad really likes it too.
Spicy Honey Penincillin
Serves: 1
Bartender level: easy
- 1 ½ oz smoky Scotch (such as Jura, Laphroaig, or Ardbeg)
- 1 ½ oz Glayva whisky liqueur
- 2 oz non-alc ginger beer
- 1 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
- ½ oz honey syrup
- In a shaker filled with ice, add all ingredients except for ginger beer, and shake to chill, about 10 seconds.
- Strain into a rocks glass with a king cube.
- Gently pour in the ginger beer and stir to combine.
- Garnish with a thick lemon wedge and serve.