Honey Rhubarb Silver Sour: Drought Relief Dream is a Gin Sour using McDonough’s 1883 Silver Sour recipe, with a Tasmanian honey and seasonal pickle rhubarb twist, using leatherwood honey syrup and leatherwood mead combined with a jammy rhubarb shrub syrup, real free range organic egg white and pepper berry infused oaked gin, garnished with Angostura bitters and a rain drop on a nasturtium leaf. The leatherwood honey used in the Honey Rhubarb Silver Sour was produced by Honey Tasmania during the 2019 drought when there were only 5 days of leatherwood flowers and the bees foraged for food from other flowers, resulting in a lighter leatherwood flavour. Showcasing local producers affected by the drought and using their products, as in this Honey Rhubarb Silver Sour: Drought relief dream, is one way of highlighting the impact of drought for the ancient leatherwood trees, bees and local producers. The Honey Rhubarb Silver Sour is a rich and complex sour gin based drink that features Tasmanian honey, mead and gin – offering the dream of drought relief in the form of a balm of spicy leatherwood honey syrup, leatherwood mead and 40 spotted gin featuring the warmth of Tasmanian pepper berries along with …