Crafting South Africa's National Cocktail: The Honey Badger

South Africa has incredible food, wine, spirits and local flavours — but we still don’t have a cocktail that we can truly call our own.

Italy has the Negroni. Brazil has the Caipirinha. These cocktails have become part of their countries’ identities.

As South Africa’s cocktail culture continues to grow, we’re seeing more bartenders and drinkers embrace local ingredients, indigenous flavours and drinks that tell a story about where we come from.

We believe there’s an opportunity for South Africa to have that same kind of cocktail.

And we want to help create it.

So We Created the Honey Badger

We wanted to create something that felt unmistakably South African — not simply an international cocktail with a local twist.

The Honey Badger brings together Bangbroek, fresh lime, and ginger ale. This creates a delicious, refreshing cocktail with a subtle chilli kick.

We’re also proud to use ingredients that connect the cocktail to our own landscape, including Karoo agave and fynbos-nurtured chillies from Stellenbosch.

For us, it’s about more than making a good cocktail.

We’re trying to create a drink that tastes like South Africa.

We’re Trying to Start a Movement

We’re not saying that the Honey Badger is South Africa’s national cocktail.

We’re saying why can’t it be?

We’ve already seen the Honey Badger become one of South Africa’s fastest-growing local cocktails, and we want to see where it can go from here.

We want bartenders to put their own spin on it. We want restaurants and bars to make it their own. Most importantly, we want South Africans to discover a cocktail that feels like it belongs to them.

Because we don’t think a national cocktail should belong to one brand.

It should belong to South Africa.

So we’re starting the conversation — and we’d love to see where the country takes it.

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Crafting South Africa's National Cocktail: The Honey Badger

So We Created the Honey Badger

We’re Trying to Start a Movement