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Tonight at 9PM ET we’ll be getting together with Francisco Olachea, Elba Copado, Frederick Rodriguez and Andrés Torres, with surprise guest Raul de la Garza. Francisco, Elba and Frederick are the organizers of the Copa Hidromiel México, a BJCP competition in Mexico City. Between them they’ve an impressive collection of education and experience. We will also have Bob Slanzi, US Mead Ambassador to Mexico.
Copa Hidromiel México 2024 is a mead competition organized with the purpose of supporting, disseminating and promoting the production and consumption of artisanal drinks made from bee honey. The competition is endorsed by the BJCP organization based on its official guidelines, widely recognized internationally.The direction and coordination of the 2024 Mexico Hidromiel Cup will be carried out by NINKASI/IBQ. Francisco J. Olachea M. and PHOCAL/Frederick Rodriguez and as Judge Director Elba Copado, with the objective of disseminating the culture of mead.
The 2024 Mexico Hidromiel Cup will take place in Mexico City on Tuesday, September 10, Wednesday, September 11, and Thursday, September 12, 2024 and will have both home and commercial entries. The winners will be notified on Saturday, September 14, 2024 on social networks.
You can see the 2023 highlights of the Copa Hidromiel México here:
Francisco Olachea is a biochemical Engineer, and holds general Certificate in Brewing and Spirits by the IBD, is a Certified BJCP judge, Certified Cicerone®, and a Mead BJCP judge, Cider BJCP judge, Unionbirrai Beer Taster, Master Mezcalier, Cigar Sommelier and Sommelier member of the Mexican Sommeliers Association. He is also an instructor at the Mexican Academy of Sommeliers. Finally, he is CEO at I+D CERVEZA SA de CV since 2011.
Elba Copado is a Graduate in Chemistry from the University of Guadalajara and a Graduate of Siebel Institute of technology WBA (concise course in brewing technology / Brewing Microbiology). She has also taken the Specialist Course in Beer by the University of Alicante. Elba is a pioneer in homebrew in Mexico, and is a commercial beer (2003), mead (2014) and cider (2021) producer. She is a BJCP judge of beer, mead and cider and is a Certified beer server of Cicerone’s program. She is President of Ceryder A.C and Founder of Cup San Arnulfo.And she is Adiministrator of BJCP exams of beer, mead and cider in Mexico. Elba is also owner of the Beer Lounge in Tlaquepaque, Mexico, where she and her husband Aguirre sling her unique beers. Imbibe tells her story well here.
Frederick Rodriguez is a photographer, producer and director with more than 30 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. He has produced, photographed and carried out various feature film, short film, video clips, corporate, institutional and documentary projects. In 2012 he edited and post-produced the documentary series “Hallazgos” of the INAH, Partner and founder of La Valija Industriarte, obtaining the PACMyC award for the development of the documentary “Los paths that van” 2014 as director and photographer, In 2012 with the company Museum he developed a 360º mural for the Museum of Music in Puerto Rico and from 2015 to 2017 he developed an interactive table for the exhibition of the Constitution in the National Palace at the same time he developed 2 video walls for the Museum of Constitutions of the UNAM, since 2022 he documents the “Copa Hidromiel México”, creator of the documentary “Fermentos Ancestrales” (watch the trailer) in which he focuses on mead and pre-Hispanic ferments of Mexico and he is a mead judge (in process) since 2023.
Frederick has also done a 2023 collective exhibition “I Feel Then I Re-sisto” UAM- University of Brighton” video art “Viaje sin Regreso”, 2022 researcher of the script “Tierra barbara” mini series. Currently he is the owner of Phocal Photography where he directs, produces, post produces and photography for different companies such as Lincoln Towncar, Laboratorios Decrha, Intervet Schering Plougth, MSD Salud Animal, Sony Entertainment, Municipality of Lerma, Adidas, Nissan, América Express, Sicario, KRBO Bikes, Del Pacifico Sea Foods, US Meat, Crayola and the guild meadery.
Andrés Torres, coming on as a friend and translator, as well as an experienced meadmaker and brewer, is a BJCP Certified Beer Judge, BJCP Mead Judge, BJCP Cider Judge, BJCP IT Director, MJP Mead Judge Level 2, has KU Leuven – Beer the Science of Brewing and is Cicerone Certified Beer Server. He works at Katz&Brew Brewery.
Join us to explore mead in Mexico and this great upcoming competition!
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- June 15-Aug 4 (weekends) – Honnibrook Craft Meadery, Castle Rock, CO – Colorado Renaissance Festival this summer June 15th-August 4th. At the festival you can find our Black Currant, Huckleberry, Black Cherry, Elderberry, Blackberry and Dragonfruit meads
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- June 21 – Meadkreiger – Old Norse Mead, Loveland, CO – Summer Solstice with the Sogs live music
- June 21 – Four Brothers Meadery, Festus, MO – Emma Nobbe Live Music
- June 22-23 – Stardust Cellars, Wilksboro, NC – 5th Annual Mead Festival
- June 22 – Stardust Cellars, Wilksboro, NC – Mead Making Workshop
- June 23 – Moonjoy Meadery, Lenoir, NC – Mead and Mindfulness
- June 23 – Bløm Meadworks Ann Arbor, MI – Body Boost workout
- June 23 – Skãl Mead Hall, Seattle, WA – Summer Mead Festival
- June 25 – Steffenshire Wine and Meadworks, Hanover, PA – Mocktails and Mead with Wholly Holistic
- June 28 – Bumbling Fools Mead, Minneapolis, MN – Warrior Dog Rescue adopton event
- June 29 – Starrlight Mead, Pittsboro, NC – Mead Making Class with Cumberland County Beekeeping Association
- June 30 – Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, PA – Brunch at the Meadery
- June 30 – Superstition Meadery, Prescott, AZ – Meadmaking Demonstration for the Homebrewer virtual event
- July 10 – Lilly Belle Meads, Lancaster, NY – Open Mic night
- July 12 – Four Brothers Mead, Festus, MO – CherriBomb debuts – live music
- July 12 – Kingview Meadery, Harborcreek, PA – Velvet Waves live music
- July 13 – Orcas Island Cider and Mead Festival, Eastsound, WA – 2024 Orcas Island Cider and Mead Festival, to benefit the Orcas Island Historical Museum.
- July 13 – Grimsby Hollow Meadery, Middleville, MI – Drink Mead, Learn Things: Archery on the Medieval Battlefield
- July 13 – ARTifice Ales and Mead, Manheim, PA – Trucks and Mugs and Stars and Stripes Fun Run/Walk
- Aug 1 – St. Ambrose Cellars, Beulah, MI – Lynn Callahan live music
- Aug 3 – White Bear Meadery, Maplewood, MN – Mead Day Celebration
- Aug 3 – Honnibrook Craft Meadery, Castle Rock, CO – World Mead Day Celebration with live music all day and Polynesian Fire-Dancer show starting in the evening. For the celebration we will be serving 8 different varieties of mead slushees and 20 different varieties of draft mead. Additionally we will be giving away a free honnibrook glass with your first pour (while supplies last) The celebration starts at noon on Saturday.
- Sept 10-12 Copa Hidromiel, Mexico City – international mead competition for home and commercial mead
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