The new bee's knees
LuLu's Lounge sheds light on its May promotion - a jazzed-up version of a Prohibition Era cocktail
TAKE a relatively obscure Prohibition Era cocktail and reinvent it for the eco-friendly, Instagram-ready age with locally-sourced ingredients and playful presentation. That's the bright idea behind the Bright Idea, the monthly special for May at LuLu's Lounge.
"Prohibition counter-intuitively was a time of great innovation for cocktails," says head bartender Tertius Wharton, referring to the period from 1920 to 1933 when liquor was illegal in the United States.
Low-quality moonshine was the most commonly available spirit at the time - and had to be jazzed up. Thus the creation of the Bee's Knees, a honey-and-gin conco…
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