Homemade Honey Mix

Name: Homemade Honey Mix
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Tiki
Ingredients: 1 cup raw honey; 1 cup warm water

sweet honeyed

A 1:1 dilution of honey and warm water. Required for canonical builds including the Navy Grog and the QB Cooler because raw honey is too viscous to integrate with shaken cocktails. Five minutes.

Homemade Honey Mix—a 1:1 dilution of honey and warm water, ready to integrate into shaken cocktails

Servings

Ingredients

1 cup raw honey
1 cup warm water

Directions

Combine the honey and warm water in a small bowl or jar.

Stir or whisk until fully dissolved.

Cool to room temperature.

Bottle and refrigerate.

See Honey Mix for the full context—why straight honey doesn’t work in cold cocktails, which drinks require this mix, and how the honey varietal changes the build.