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Can't help too much here..I am forwarding your message to the bee-l
and extl lists in the hope you might get an reasonable answer.
Tom Sanford
On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, r butler wrote:
> Dr Sanford.
> Could you please help me regarding yeast as a pollen substitue.
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> I am a home beer brewer and I was wondering about using the yeast and
> protein sludge from the bottom of primary fermentations for feeding
> my bees. At present I must throw out tens of gallons of this yeast
> sludge, and would like to put it to good use. "Oh the possible
> efficiencies of two overgrown hobbies..."
>
> The sludge is mostly yeast, and will contain some precipitated
> /coagulated proteins from the grain, as well as some residual hop flower
> acids which are responsible for bittering beer.
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> Is the commercial soy and yeast substitute more pure than this ?
> Where would someone to go to find out if feeding this dried sludge is a
> good or a bad idea?
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
> Robert Butler
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