Agriculture Industry Agriculture Industry    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Jars of honey Cristalized and Slight Presser          Agriculture Industry Forum Index -> Bee Keeping View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Server Guest Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:32 pm    Post subject: Jars of honey Cristalized and Slight Presser #### Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Roger Guest Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Jars of honey Cristalized and Slight Presser On Mar 9, 12:03 am, AL <lit...@hamiltoncom.net> wrote: Quote: Charles Puffer wrote: Charles Puffer wrote: I have a number of quart jars of honey that has crystallized. Which is fine, but there is a slight pressure (the lid is slightly distended and pop when the jars are opened. There is no harsh smell or other signs of having turned. Should I be concerned? Charles Puffer My plan is to make a wart (boil with water) add a good yeast and brew a batch of mead. Charles Puffer Well then, problem solved. AL- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - If the lids of the jars were distended, then I assume the the honey was placed in the containers warm, a vacume developed when when they cooled. This happens under normal canning processes using mason jars. As a bee keeper myself, honey heated under 150 degrees F will crystalize and during that process the volume will decrease slightly in the container and that will also distend mason lids. As long as there are no off smells it should be fine. If you are a beekeeper yourself try to extract the honey without any water on the combs or the extractor. Or if you purchased the honey from a beekeeper explain to him the water got into the honey and that it caused fermentation. I had 18 lbs of honey that had water in it and it fermented strongly with a musty smell and taste( I heated this up distroying any wild yeast and then made mead with it. But with no off ordors or tastes the honey should be fine for other uses other then mead or bee food. Roger Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Ruary Rudd Guest Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Jars of honey Cristalized and Slight Presser Hi Roger, I think that distended means swolen out not sunken in. Convex rather than concave. Fermentation would produce gas which would create pressure to that. A vacuum would suck the lid inwards. ruary "Roger" <vert20@myway.com> wrote in message news:1173702761.058333.67830@n33g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... Quote: If the lids of the jars were distended, then I assume the the honey was placed in the containers warm, a vacume developed when when they cooled. This happens under normal canning processes using mason jars. As a bee keeper myself, honey heated under 150 degrees F will crystalize and during that process the volume will decrease slightly in the container and that will also distend mason lids. As long as there are no off smells it should be fine. Roger Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Guest Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:55 am    Post subject: Re: Jars of honey Cristalized and Slight Presser In article <et40pt$29r$1@reader01.news.esat.net>, Ruary Rudd <ruaryrudd@iol.ie> wrote: Quote: I think that distended means swolen out not sunken in. Mostly: To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. -- http://yosemitenews.info/ Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Irie Pete Guest Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 12:41 am    Post subject: Re: Re: Colonoy Collapse Disorder http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=1388 http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=21912 http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm Back to top   Ads Advertising Sponsor Charlie Kroeger Guest Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 5:08 am    Post subject: Re: Colonoy Collapse Disorder Irie Pete wrote: Quote: http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=1388 http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=21912 http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm Thank you Irie, it is reassuring to read these reports I've always thought that beekeeping the agri-business way had no future and nothing has improved to dispel my concerns. Support organic foods. -- C.K. 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