So U <strained the dead bees and bee parts out with a fine
kitchen strainer>????
Pobre muchacho! All that work.
This is my 37 consecutive years w/honeybees: my honey is as clear as
mountain spring water! (I sell it from my front door year round.)
I've never strained my honey: totally unnecessary.
After extraction, if the honey is permitted to remain overnight
in its container, ALL the debris rises to the top, is skimmed off,
and is fed back to the bees!
End result: really raw, crystal-clear honey, pure and organic: unheated,
unfiltered, unstrained, un-everything, no mess, no strainer,
no extra work!
Suum cuique - to each his own?
jack the bman
 
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Dave from Scranton wrote:
 
> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, beeman wrote:
>
> > Hi all! i had the same problem with my honey crop last year, but a man
> > called about buying honey and i told all i had was cloudy honey he came
> > over and said it was pollenated honey and bought 12 cases at a higher
> > price, people have been calling wanting it again...
>
>         I have a health food store that has requested that it NOT be
> pasteurized, NOT be filtered and IN glass bottles. So I strained the
> dead bees and bee parts out with a fine kitchen strainer...
>
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