Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards 2014

Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards 2014

Royal Melbourne Fine Foods Awards 2014

For the first time this year (2014), I decided to help as a steward at the Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards. I worked for 7 days over three weeks and helped with the awards shown below.

Day 1 & 2 - Distilled spirits (whiskey, gin, vodka & fruit liqueur)

Getting ready for Distilled Spirits tasting

What we see back of house. Judges have blind tastings

Plenty of Whiskey, Gin, Vodka for the judges

Whiskey is served!

Fruit Liqueurs ready for judging

Getting the fruit liqueurs ready for pouring

Fruit Liqueurs, ready for pouring 

Fruit Liqueurs in many wonderful colours

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Day 3 (event 2) for me was the Cider and Perry judging.

Day 3 saw the judging of both cider (apple) and Perry (pear). Some excellent quality brews were judged

Preparation for Cider tasting

Cider & Perry judging. These are Perry (pear)

 

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Day 4 - my third event included Salts, Spices, Crisp Bread plus Honey

Spices and Salt judging

Some interesting Salts for judging 8 baked garlic and olive salt

Silver medal winner "Friggin'Hot Chilli Paste

Honey Judging

Honey is on the table for the judges - labels removed of course!

Honey judging

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Day five was the judging of Cereal, Muesli, confectionery and infusions (tea)

Cereal & Muesli Awards

Cereal & Muesli awards

Muesli judging

Muesli Judging

Confectionery

A plate of confectionery for the judges

Nougat ready for the confectionery judges

Infusion (tea) judging

Infusion judging under way

Lemon Verbena ready to be infused and judged

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Day 6 & 7  was setting up and running the pasta judging day.

The Age newspaper came and took photos of the pasta judging
Click to see The Age Photo Gallery

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 The final day was judging garlic. 

I didn't steward on that last day - but the garlic was looking and smelling wonderful