honey, i’m home! the old new flavour
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Slides from our Honey Presentation from Tales of the Cocktail 2014TRANSCRIPT
HONEY, I’M HOME!
The old New Flavour
Presented by Sebastian Reaburn, Jacob Briars, Lacy Hawkins & Sam Ross (in absentia)
Thanks to Dewers, Drambuie and the National Honey Board
#honey
@cocktailseb @vodkaprofessor @lacyhawkins @samueljoelross @totc
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Melbourne Cocktail History
Bartender
Pretending to be a corporate
exec at Bacardi Australia
Some awards
@cocktailseb
SEBASTIAN REABURN
New York
Global Ambassador
Is actually a corporate exec at
Bacardi
Some Awards
@vodkaprofessor
JACOB BRIARS
Portland, Oregan
Beekeeping Family
2 Hives in Portland
Will soon have 2 Rooftop hives in
new York
Clover Club & NoMad
8 Years in the industry – whole life
with bees
@lacyhawkins
LACY HAWKINS
Ex Melbourne
Milk & Honey
Attaboy
‘nuff said
Attabeard
Here in spirit only
SAM ROSS
1 part Drambuie
1 part Dewar’s Blended
Whiskey
Serve on ice
21 Club New York
Prohibition
RUSTY NAIL
Oldest known sweetener
10-15,000 year old cave
paintings in Spain
Civilisation begins with honey
Religious and medicinal
ingredient
Oldest fermented product
OLD HONEY
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Honey was used in embalming
Religious ingredient
Ancient Greek coin
Medicinal and food uses
Honey is Kosher, but bees
aren’t.
OLD HONEY
OLD HONEY DRINKS
Metheglin – honey, alcohol ideally mead, ginger, spices
Wassail – Usually ale, cream, cider, honey, spices, celebratory drink
Athol Brose – honey, porridge (oatmeal), cream, water, whisky
Toddy – whisky, honey, water
Mead – fermented honey, usually up to 6 months fermentation,
sparkling or still, with a sour flavour
Sbiten – Russian honey and spice vodka that pre-dates vodka
WHAT IS HONEY?
Honey is simply bee vomit.
Or is it…?
1. A foraging bee gathers nectar from flowers and stores it in their
honey stomach.
2. The foraging bee will then fly back to the hive and transfer the
nectar over to a house bee.
NECTAR SWAP
T H E H O U S E B E E W I L L T H E N R E G U R G I T A T E T H E
N E C T A R I N T O O N E O F T H E C E L L S I N T H E I R C O M B .
WHAT THE FLOWERS DO
Sucrose
(Table
Sugar)
WHAT THE BEES DO
DEHYDRATION
Bees fan the honey with their wings
CAP THE HONEY WITH WAX
THE FULL COMB!
Fructose
Glucose
Maltose
Sucrose
Water
Other carbohydrates
Minerals
Vitamins – Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Folic Acid,
Biotin, Pantothenic Acid, Pyridoxine, Inositol
Amino acids
Acids
Other – nobody knows…
CHEMISTRY OF HONEY
Factors that effect honey:
• Weather
• Location
• The Beekeeper!
• The Queen Bee…
HONEY IS A TASTE IN TIME
7 completely different
honeys to taste and
explore the idea of
Terroir in honey.
HONEY TASTING
HONEY #1
• Light in color
• Thin
• Notes of flowers(honeysuckle), nectarines, lychee and bright citrus
HONEY #2
Medium to light in color and viscosity
Notes of dried apple, apricot, chamomile and roses
2 HIVES 2 HONEYS 2 TASTES
HONEY #3
• Dark Medium-Dark in color
• Incredibly thick - crystalized!
• Notes of prunes, minerals, chocolate and orange
HONEY #4
• Dark in color
• Very thick and medium crystals
• Notes of rum, molasses, coffee and black tea
Melbourne city urban honey
@rooftopbees
Local restaurants and cafes allow
them to use their roofs
Venues get a small cut of honey
Supported by the Melbourne City
Council
Hard to buy – but you can get a
subscription
MELBOURNE ROOFTOP
HONEY
Hobart Tasmania urban honey
Hobart wildflower
Big local green initiative
towards organic
Small culinary and tourist start
ups driving the economy post
wood chipping
WELLINGTON APIARY
New Zealand
The healthiest honey in the
world
UMF
Related to Tea Tree
Kills multi resistant
staphylococcus aureus
Used to treat burns
MANUKA HONEY
DIY
BEES
June 20 2014 President
Obama used his Presidential
Power of Executive Order to
create a national strategy for
pollination.
90 days for everyone to agree
to a plan for the plan
YEZZZZZ WE CAN
HONEY FACTORY OPTION
2 ounces Dewar’s 12yr Old
¾ ounce lemon juice
3/8 ounce honey syrup
3/8 ounces sweetened ginger
juice
Shake strain over rock
Float a little smoky malt
PENICILLIN
WHY USE HONEY
Complex flavour
Natural Maillard reactions
Long sweetness from Fructose and glucose
Contains proteins that are healthy
Supports local industries
Make honey more valuable = better bee research
2 ounces Bourbon
¾ ounce Fresh lemon
¾ Ounce Honey syrup
Shake and Strain over Rock
Whiskey Sour with Honey
GOLD RUSH
2 ounces Gin
¾ ounce Fresh Lemon
¾ ounce honey syrup
Shake and stgrain
Lemon Twist
Gold Rush with Gin
BEES KNEES
2 ounces Bacardi Gold Rum
¾ ounce Fresh Lime
¾ ounce Honey syrup
Shake and Strain
Goldrush with Rum
Daiquiri with honey
HONEYSUCKLE
2 ounces Bacardi Gold Rum
¾ Ounce fresh lime
¾ ounce honey syrup
5 ounces Champagne
Shake and Pour
Tall glass with cracked ice
Honeysuckle with Champagne
AIRMAIL
DRINK! TASTING
Honey is the fastest growing new flavour
Driven by mid-price flavoured whiskey innovation
Basically a small amount of honey melted into some alcohol
Is everything called honey honey?
Is this just adding sugar to booze for kids brought up on high
fructose corn syrup soda pop?
An original non-religious honey liqueur
Honey and whisky
Dram Buibhe – yellow drink
‘The drink that Satisfies’
1909 from a 1745 recipe
Frist liqueur in the House of Lords Cellars
Sent to to soldiers in the Great War
National drink of Antarctica (thanks to NZ)
Prohibition – thousands of cases were ‘allegedly’
set afloat outside the US for bootleggers to retrieve.
For free.
21 Club in New York
DRAMBUIE
Blended scotch and honey
Filtered through extra oak
Scotch Malt Whisky
Association
DEWAR’S HIGHLAND
HONEY
Released in 2003
Vodka with local NZ Manuka
Honey
Won a stack of awards
Islay of Honey Spirits
Not available in the US
42 BELOW MANUKA HONEY
2011 smashed sales
expectations
Leading the honey whiskey
revolution
Not the first
JACK DANIELS HONEY
Irish Whiskey
From the North…
Irish honey and other natural
flavours
Upmarket
Off trend towards premium
BUSHMILLS IRISH HONEY
Not a flavoured spirit
Vodka distilled from honey
Local orange blossom honey
is fermented and pot distilled
COMB WHITE
Also called Barenfang
Bear Hunter
15th Century Prussian recipe
Neutral spirit, honey spices
Often made at home in
Germany
BARENJAGER
Same botanicals and spices as
the green, but different ratio
Loads more honey and saffron
Oak aged
Amazing texture of sweetness
Only 40% abv - 80 Proof
YELLOW CHARTREUSE
2004 Best Cocktail in the World!
Chilli
Kaffir Lime leaf
½ a lime
1/3 ounce elderflower syrup (or St Germain)
1 ½ ounces 42 Below Manuka Honey Vodka
1 ounce of Jagermeister
1/3 ounce vanilla syrup
Shake it all up and serve straight up with a crazy
garnish and a story.
KILLER BEE
FUTURE OF HONEY