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Greets All/Luis
 
Luis, you mention a honey which foamed on conatact with whatever it
was being poured into/onto.
 
If the honey fermented in a closed bottle it would have become
saturated with carbon dioxide gas - similar to carbonated coke or
juices. When you remove the cap and pour it the carbon dioxide comes
out of solution in the water which is now under lower pressure and
forms little bubbles. This is just the same as when one pours coke,
champaigne etc into a glass and it foams over.
 
The cause of the fermentation is probably a bacteria with a high
sugar tolerance - if you ate the honey you may be able to geuss what
it is by the symptoms of the resulting food poisoning - but that's
the difficult route. I would throw it away - down the toilet.
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
Garth Cambray           Camdini Apiaries
15 Park Road
Grahamstown             Apis mellifera capensis
6139
South Africa
 
Time = Honey
 
If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space!!

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