Competition within a competition

[BrewStache]

A few friends of mine had the idea to do a competition within a competition. This is continuing a trend the MeadMakr guys starts with their soda mead challenge a couple years ago. We want to see how creative people can get with a cocktail inspire mead.

#CocktailMead Challenge at the 2019 Texas Mead Cup

1) Create and enter as many entries as you'd like

2) Enter in the Experimental Mead category (M4C)

3) Standard strength is our goal (session strength doesn't seem to fit the idea of a cocktail, whereas sack seems too close to an actual cocktail)

4) Do not declare ingredients (listing honey is optional), but instead declare which cocktail inspired your mead

5) The addition of an actual liquor is probably cheating, but if you happen to have some oak that has been soaking in it, who are we to stop you?

6) Please include #CocktailMead somewhere in your entry to help us identify how many participants we had

Edit: We know the dates for the 2019 Texas Mead Cup have not been posted yet, they are currently working on that, but we wanted to give people enough time to start and finish meads before the deadlines.

 

[Maylar]

Cool. I'll hafta think about this one. How many cocktails have honey in them?

 

[NeverDie]

A few friends of mine had the idea to do a competition within a competition. This is continuing a trend the MeadMakr guys starts with their soda mead challenge a couple years ago. We want to see how creative people can get with a cocktail inspire mead.

#CocktailMead Challenge at the 2019 Texas Mead Cup

1) Create and enter as many entries as you'd like

2) Enter in the Experimental Mead category (M4C)

3) Standard strength is our goal (session strength doesn't seem to fit the idea of a cocktail, whereas sack seems too close to an actual cocktail)

4) Do not declare ingredients (listing honey is optional), but instead declare which cocktail inspired your mead

5) The addition of an actual liquor is probably cheating, but if you happen to have some oak that has been soaking in it, who are we to stop you?

6) Please include #CocktailMead somewhere in your entry to help us identify how many participants we had

Edit: We know the dates for the 2019 Texas Mead Cup have not been posted yet, they are currently working on that, but we wanted to give people enough time to start and finish meads before the deadlines.

In what city will the 2019 Texas Mead Cup be held?

 

[bernardsmith]

Cool. I'll hafta think about this one. How many cocktails have honey in them?

anything that includes Drambuie?

 

[Maylar]

anything that includes Drambuie?

I did not know that. Thanks. I wonder what herbs and spices go into that...
Soak some oak cubes in single malt? Yeah, I can do that.

 

[bernardsmith]

A "rusty nail" is made with scotch and drambuie and I think you can make a version of drambuie using scotch, heather, honey, (heather honey?) angelica and fennel or perhaps some licorice root so you might want to cold smoke the honey using peat...if scotch is not an ingredient of the mead.

 

[Maylar]

Heather honey would make an awesome mead. I'd be willing to do that with spices and scotch soaked oak to simulate Drambuie. Most of the cocktail recipes I find have citrus though, which I'm not keen on fermenting. But then there's the outrageous price of heather honey to consider too. Hmm.

 

[bernardsmith]

Not quite the same as heather honey but perhaps you can add heather tips to some wildflower honey...?

 

[NeverDie]

Perhaps a Bees Knees mead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee's_Knees_(cocktail)

I suppose a super high ABV would maybe make it more like a cocktail, though I guess 25% would be the max attainable without freeze distilling it.

 

[Maylar]

Not quite the same as heather honey but perhaps you can add heather tips to some wildflower honey...?

I haven't had Drambuie in ages. I'm gonna pick some up tonite and see if I can discern the flowers. Hey, any excuse for some Scotch.

 

[Maylar]

Perhaps a Bees Knees mead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee's_Knees_(cocktail)

I suppose a super high ABV would maybe make it more like a cocktail, though I guess 25% would be the max attainable.

Gin and I don't get along.

The OP says standard strength is preferred to sack strength.