Fermented is said to cause dysentery in bees, though Randy Oliver's investigation concluded: pollen, dextrin, minerals, burned sugar, and fermenting syrup do not produce dysentery.feeding it back to the bees
It might be helpful if you told them how you can check for tendency to ferment! Especially if it is that clear!Not really any excuse for this. A quick check, after crystallisation, will reveal (quite clearly) any tendency to ferment. Another mistake is to not fully liquify a bucket of honey and jar up only the liquid.
have never had honey ferment before. How do you check for a tendency to ferment?Not really any excuse for this. A quick check, after crystallisation, will reveal (quite clearly) any tendency to ferment. Another mistake is to not fully liquify a bucket of honey and jar up only the liquid.
have never had honey ferment before. How do you check for a tendency to ferment?
It’s down to the moisture content . Below 20% nearer 18 or less your honey isn’t likely to ferment . Keep it covered as being hygroscopic it absorbs atmospheric moisture .If you count the yeast parts per million in your honey then deduct the number of yeast cells that don’t have a high sugar tolerance and multiply by the % moisture . Then multiply this by the square rout of the average storage temperature devided by the anticipated number of days the honey will be stored at the mean average temp.
If the number you get is a very high one then the honey is likely to ferment. the truth is in there somewher
Thanks. Can I heat it in the jar to pasteurization temp and use it for cooking etc?I get fermented honey now and then. I portion it out in 1 litre tubs into the fridge and freezer and eat it
Yes I have done this - had 20+ jars ferment two years ago most annoying. However tasted fine fermented and heated.Thanks. Can I heat it in the jar to pasteurization temp and use it for cooking etc?
If the number you get is a very high one then the honey is likely to ferment. the truth is in there somewher
Why heat and pasteurise? Go ahead and cook with it as it is.heat it in the jar to pasteurization temp and use it for cooking etc?
Buy a refractometer that measures moisture in honey; test frames randomly before extraction.have never had honey ferment before. How do you check for a tendency to ferment?
No excuse? If you say so, but several reasons spring to mind why honey might absorb enough moisture to ferment: beekeeper ill so leaves honey over winter; roof leaks or wind blows hive over; colony dies out; beekeeper forgets to take honey; beekeeper removes wild nest and discovers vast honey stores at one end and and small nest at the other...Not really any excuse for this.
No excuse? If you say so, but several reasons spring to mind why honey might absorb enough moisture to ferment: beekeeper ill so leaves honey over winter; roof leaks or wind blows hive over; colony dies out; beekeeper forgets to take honey; beekeeper removes wild nest and discovers vast honey stores at one end and and small nest at the other...
No excuse? If you say so, but several reasons spring to mind why honey might absorb enough moisture to ferment: beekeeper ill so leaves honey over winter; roof leaks or wind blows hive over; colony dies out; beekeeper forgets to take honey; beekeeper removes wild nest and discovers vast honey stores at one end and and small nest at the other...
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