Bob thinking out loud:

"Maybe I could buy a new concret mixer and put my perfect comb honey in and
toss in a pound of proplis and mix....."

Don't forget to add a couple dozen frames of pollen! Then for those folks
who want the really fancy light water white honey you could heat the whole
cement mixer load up with a couple of propane burners and then ultrafilter
and pasturize the mess so that it would taste almost like the stuff in the
grocery stores from China and Argentina, "Got Honey?".

Seriously, the marketing of honey is big business and those companies with
the resources and the right marketing tactics, public relation associates,
and advertising have the ability to create and market whatever concepts
they desire all without factual consideration of the "true" process of
manufacturing the wonderful stuff that the marvelous honeybee so
gratefully provides.  We have available for purchase freeze-
dried "powdered" honey, ultra-purified, and ultra-ultra-purified honey and
now from a link supplied by the National Honey Board, www.gotmead.com,
double-ultra-filtered mead: " a state-of-the-art Meadery located in China
is seeking established and licensed distributors for a variety of Honey
Mead products. This publicly listed company uses Acacia flower honey,
which undergoes an ultra-filtration process and quality control procedures
granted ISO-9001:2000 certification in 2001.

The water used undergoes a series of filtration and softening processes
before being used in production. A special kind of yeast is added and
maintained at a temperature around 21ºC - 24ºC for approximately 15 days.
The barrels of fermenting Mead are closely monitored and adjusted on a
daily basis. The aging time is about two months. After aging the Mead
undergoes another ultra-filtration process. It is then goes to the
bottling, sterilization, labeling and packaging..... The alcoholic content
is 11%."

Perhaps Bob should patent his innovative process since I know that sooner
or later someone will be loading a brand new stainless steel cement mixer
full of honeycomb.:)


Chuck Norton
(who is trying really hard to create a recipes for bottled brood, pickled
wax moths, and honey coated small hive beetles; and, hoping that for the
moderators it is a really, really slow day.)

Norton's Nut & Honey Farm
Reidsville, NC

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