Honey, I’m home! The Old New Flavour

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