Do you make the best home-brew? A hip flask is essential sporting kit and we want to know what you are making to put in yours from classic sloe gin to jelly baby vodka
Your winter-warming concoctions are probably brewing already but will they meet our hip flask challenge? We had a blast trying last year’s bevvies and look forward to tasting whatever you come up with this time.
To enter, send a small bottle of your brew (non-leaking), stating the main ingredients, its age, your name and address and the recipe for making it, to Alexandra Henton at The Field, Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London SE1 0SU. Entries will be judged by James Chase from Chase Distillery and a panel of expert tasters, with helpful asides from The Field staff.
Closing date for entries is 1 December 2014 and the winners, together with the 10 best recipes submitted, will be featured in the March 2015 issue. Alas, we cannot return any of the entries. They will have been sacrificed during the judging.
CATEGORIES FOR HIP FLASK DRINKS
TRADITIONAL category is open to all classic, spirit-based concoctions that use hedgerow and garden harvest, such as sloes or rhubarb
OFF-PISTE category is for modern recipes, such as toffee vodka and last year’s inventive winner beetroot and horseradish vodka.
PRIZES
Your winter-warming concoctions are probably brewing already but will they meet our hip-flask challenge? We had a blast trying last year’s bevvies and look forward to tasting whatever you come up with this time
