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This one I have to comment on.
Isn't this just a comb that guests have been consuming over 2-3 days? in other words nothing wrong with what you see as 300 people have been hacking at it - they spoon runny honey from the tray.
You seem to be suggesting a beekeeper has sold this (as it is in the picture) straight from the hive.
JD
A wired comb that has had brood in it.
I have eaten comb honey presented this way in a posh hotel but it was clean
OKWould the honey from that comb in the picture not be clean.
It did not have the remains of brood cells in it which to my mind is distasteful and looks bad.
A wired comb that has had brood in it.
Not convinced it has been brood, super frames that have never seen brood get very dark after a seasons or two - personally I would not extract from brood frames but that image is not clear. Don't care about the wire as it probably helps the frame from collapsing at breakfast time.
I do recall a nasty old timer doing a talk locally, association talk in which he said dark honey was hard to come by so he would deliberately harvest his honey from old brood frames to help darken the end product - his claim not mine.
Not convinced it has been brood, super frames that have never seen brood get very dark after a seasons or two - personally I would not extract from brood frames but that image is not clear. Don't care about the wire as it probably helps the frame from collapsing at breakfast time.
I do recall a nasty old timer doing a talk locally, association talk in which he said dark honey was hard to come by so he would deliberately harvest his honey from old brood frames to help darken the end product - his claim not mine.
From the pic difficult to make out cocoons but it could very well be a patch of darker honey surrounded by lighter. It happens. I have experienced OSR around Hawthorne. Very frustrating it was too!
PH
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