Slides from our Honey Presentation from Tales of the Cocktail 2014

1. 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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2.  Melbourne Cocktail History
 Bartender
 Pretending to be a corporate
exec at Bacardi Australia
 Some awards
 @cocktailseb
SEBASTIAN REABURN

3.  New York
 Global Ambassador
 Is actually a corporate exec at
Bacardi
 Some Awards
 @vodkaprofessor
JACOB BRIARS

4.  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

5.  Ex Melbourne
 Milk & Honey
 Attaboy
 ‘nuff said
 Attabeard
 Here in spirit only
SAM ROSS

6.  1 part Drambuie
 1 part Dewar’s Blended
Whiskey
 Serve on ice
 21 Club New York
 Prohibition
RUSTY NAIL

7.  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

8.  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

9. 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

10. 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.

11. NECTAR SWAP

12. 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 .

13. WHAT THE FLOWERS DO
Sucrose
(Table
Sugar)

14. WHAT THE BEES DO

15. DEHYDRATION
 Bees fan the honey with their wings

16. CAP THE HONEY WITH WAX

17. THE FULL COMB!

18.  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

19.  Factors that effect honey:
• Weather
• Location
• The Beekeeper!
• The Queen Bee…
HONEY IS A TASTE IN TIME

20. 7 completely different
honeys to taste and
explore the idea of
Terroir in honey.
HONEY TASTING

21. HONEY #1
• Light in color
• Thin
• Notes of flowers(honeysuckle), nectarines, lychee and bright citrus

22. HONEY #2
 Medium to light in color and viscosity
 Notes of dried apple, apricot, chamomile and roses

23. 2 HIVES 2 HONEYS 2 TASTES

24. HONEY #3
• Dark Medium-Dark in color
• Incredibly thick - crystalized!
• Notes of prunes, minerals, chocolate and orange

25. HONEY #4
• Dark in color
• Very thick and medium crystals
• Notes of rum, molasses, coffee and black tea

26.  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

27.  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

28.  New Zealand
 The healthiest honey in the
world
 UMF
 Related to Tea Tree
 Kills multi resistant
staphylococcus aureus
 Used to treat burns
MANUKA HONEY

29. DIY

30. BEES

31.  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

32. HONEY FACTORY OPTION

33.  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

34. 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

35.  2 ounces Bourbon
 ¾ ounce Fresh lemon
 ¾ Ounce Honey syrup
 Shake and Strain over Rock
 Whiskey Sour with Honey
GOLD RUSH

36.  2 ounces Gin
 ¾ ounce Fresh Lemon
 ¾ ounce honey syrup
 Shake and stgrain
 Lemon Twist
 Gold Rush with Gin
BEES KNEES

37.  2 ounces Bacardi Gold Rum
 ¾ ounce Fresh Lime
 ¾ ounce Honey syrup
 Shake and Strain
 Goldrush with Rum
 Daiquiri with honey
HONEYSUCKLE

38.  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

39. 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?

40.  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

41.  Blended scotch and honey
 Filtered through extra oak
 Scotch Malt Whisky
Association
DEWAR’S HIGHLAND
HONEY

42.  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

43.  2011 smashed sales
expectations
 Leading the honey whiskey
revolution
 Not the first
JACK DANIELS HONEY

44.  Irish Whiskey
 From the North…
 Irish honey and other natural
flavours
 Upmarket
 Off trend towards premium
BUSHMILLS IRISH HONEY

45.  Not a flavoured spirit
 Vodka distilled from honey
 Local orange blossom honey
is fermented and pot distilled
COMB WHITE

46.  Also called Barenfang
 Bear Hunter
 15th Century Prussian recipe
 Neutral spirit, honey spices
 Often made at home in
Germany
BARENJAGER

47.  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

48.  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

49. FUTURE OF HONEY