• 00Steve
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    Off to the bee man later today to purchase 8kg of banksia honey :D

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      That is a lot of honey. I just finished a 500g jar I bought probably 2 years ago!

      Is it just for general eating, or do have special plans for it?

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          Mead is correct. Making a big 23L batch of traditional with just the honey for flavour and then will split it after fermentation to play around with adding oak, tannins, acids and back sweetening to start to explore how they all effect the final product :D

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            I want you as a friend so I can steal your mead.

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                It would be a trade for my amazing company. Also, I can help make it, I have experience brewing beer and washes!

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              It looks easy enough, its a pretty quick process by the looks of it. Just mix some ingredients, add yeast, leave for a day and then bottle, consume in about a week

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                A month is better apparently, but that’s neither here nor there I suppose.

                I’ll buy some off you if you feel up to the challenge?

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                  From what i read you make then bottle straight away and it is meant to be low alcohol, if you left it for a month you would have to be alot more careful regarding sugar quantity otherwise you would end up with higher abv and risk of bottle bombs. I dont have any bottles at the moment because none of our batches are ready to bottle yet, maybe ill grab a few extra when i buy some and ill give it a go for you :)

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      Your life is series of Zelda side quests - and I’m here for all of it.

      Also, that is a fuckload of honey homey.

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        Haha i like that way of looking at it :P It certainly is, got some funny looks last time i went in there and asked for 6kg, a couple in the shop thought i was crazy haha. I just take the big fermenter bucket in with me and get him to decant it straight into that, that way i only have to sanitise the fermenter once and dont have to try to get the last little bit of honey out of multiple jars!!

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        Oh I know this one! Bees distrimimate based on food availability, as different trees flower at different times of the year. A wild honeybee nest will forage hotspots within ~6km, but Typically will stay within a km. The different honeys are classified by the beekeepers who follow the “golden highway” as different species bloom, and knowing what the bees were foraging before harvesting leads to the type of honey produced. It’s been a while since I thought about bees, so as always, feel free to fact check and correct!

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        Honey from different plants tastes different. You’ll get something super different in a clovery meadow than you would in a stand of ironbark trees.

        Beekeepers can move their hives around. Bee man has probably got a reliable stand of banksia for them to buzz in

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          What Alamut said :) Banksia has been my favourite of all the honeys ive tried so far, which is why i chose it for this traditional so that i can try to really celebrate that flavour :D