I'd not feed it to my bees.  First, as others have pointed out, AFB
spores are (or should) always be a concern when feeding honey of unknown
origin.  Honey is the most common vector in the spread of AFB.
Secondly, the old honey may cause dysentery in your bees.  You might get
away with it in Alabama where your bees can take regular cleansing
flights throughout the winter.  Up here in the great white north it
would be a death sentence.  Why go there?

Posted Tuesday in the "Old honey - still good?" thread was this frim
Dick Allen: "I have an earlier edition of Leslie Bailey's 'Honey Bee
Pathology'. Bailey writes on some of the causes of dysentery and has
this to say: 

'Even honey that has been stored at ambient temperatures for several
years causes dysentery and 
shortens the lives of bees compared with those fed on sucrose.'" 

Aaron Morris - thinking out with the old, feed HFCS!

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