THRIVING after the FALL
Book One FEASTING after the FALL

The Menu · Drinks

Mead

Served in The Evening, course 9: The cheese board: the aged wheel, the bloomy rind, fresh goat cheese with honey.

Bees, honey and wax Drink

Its documents

The chapters that use them

In the log

The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.

  • D10 amended Safety Honey must never be boiled; a boiled must poisons the yeast (HMF) and loses scent; dissolve at no hotter than 40 °C
  • D12 amended Safety Bee stings: not in this draft, but the Bench sends readers to the bee document's colony numbers without a sting warning; consider adding
  • D35 confirmed Zeidlerei: Slavic tree apiaries in Lower Lusatia by the 10th century (965); the word from a verb meaning to cut; the rope loop climbing method; Charles IV's …
  • D36 confirmed Nickel Jacob, furrier of Sprottau, 1568, first practical German bee book, workers raise a queen from an ordinary egg
  • D37 confirmed Johann Grüwel, mayor of Kremmen, Brandenburgische Bewährte Bienen-Kunst 1719, "Streusandbüchse", straw hives behind screens, willow in April, heath in August
  • D38 partly confirmed A Brandenburg colony without sugar or medicine makes about 20 kg a year, needs 18 to 20 kg for winter, keeper takes 10 to 14 kg and a kilogram of wax, loses …
  • D39 partly confirmed Mead: 1 kg honey to 3 l water gives about 13 % ABV; 3.3 kg for 10 l; nutrient from skimmed froth, pollen or 100 g raisins; honey's own yeasts stall; pitch live …