London Beekeepers’ Honey Festival

The Honeytrap cocktail.
35ml Krupnik honey liqueur
25ml The King’s Ginger liqueur
15ml rosewater
15ml lemon juice (about half a lemon’s worth)
25ml honey

Shake with ice and serve with a twist of lemon in a martini glass.

By Ian Douglas
The Telegraph
23 Aug 2011

Excerpt:

Mikey Tomkins keeps the hive on top of the hall and organised the event as part of his work at Sustain, a charity that promotes good practice in food production. ‘We’re a charity, we promote food in huge variety. There’s the sustainable fish for London campaign, the real bread campaign, and Capital Bee [a Sustain campaign sponsored by the Mayor of London's office] is part of Capital Growth, which promotes food growing in London.

“Capital Bee specifically is a project to train 50 communities in how to keep bees. There was a competition in January, and they all applied. We set up seven training centres and we’ve been training them over the summer. In the spring they’ll get hives and bees as part of the funding process, so hopefully come April there’ll be 50 new well-trained beekeepers in London.”

Read the complete article here.