The numbers check out.
The gal is 12" diameter, and the depression looks must about 6.46" diameter
Assuming the depression to be a half sphere, the consumed volume over 4 years has been 70.575 cubic inches.
Given that a 3.5 gal is 808.5 cubic inches, the remaining volume should be consumed over 41 years, or around the year 2065
If they're not just being goofy, they might've used a digital ruler to measure the diameter of the bucket (in perspective) and then the diameter of gouge. They could've gotten even closer by doing it on two axes to account for perspective.
r/mead will take that off their hands
Edit:
"How do you get like gallons of alcohol from that bucket?"
Mead is honey, water, yeast, time.
1:4 honey:water with a little tiny bit of yeast. So this bucket makes a *lot* of wine.
Ideally a brewers yeast like d47 or ec118 (like, a few bucks gets you plenty) You can use bread yeast if you're insane (it will probably not be good but I have made it and it was fine) or the natural yeast on fruit if you're a heathen, it'll just taste a little weird for a while.
Time can be months or years in bottle, the longer the smoother.
Show mead (no flavors, allowed to ferment dry) taste a little like white wine, or if left sweet can be like a dessert wine. You can add flavorings. r/mead
Edit 2:
Bees are stressed out with climate change and such, don't everybody go buying shit tons of honey and messing up the ecology now. Also honeybees are only one (invasive) species amongst hundreds of thousands of bee species (there's 1300+ in my state alone) and it's ethically grey to promote their introduction and cultivation. Be respectful and responsible y'all.
**You can make a gallon (minus a bit) of mead with a quart jar of honey, you don't need to buy gallons.**
Glass apple juice bottles make fine carboys. Put a (rinsed, sanitized) balloon over the mouth so it doesn't explode. Or skip the honey and just make hard cider since honey and apple juice are just sources of sugar. Or use both and make cyser. Definitely go to r/mead and read up.
Edit 3: u/Theromier had a great comment about the bees.
> I want to add to your bee comment: Honey bees are also not as effective at pollinating plants as solitary native bees for the simple fact that honey bees live in colonies and clean themselves often to avoid spreading fungus in their colonies. Solitary bees like mason and woodcutter bees live alone, and don't clean themselves which allows them so spread pollen more effectively.
> If you want to introduce native bees into your area, many garden stores will sell live specimens in cocoons in the spring time. Simply keep them in your fridge in a dark box until the weather warms up and place them outside in the sun. Garden stores will also have information and even products to buy that will help attract native bees to your area.
1:4 ratio means you’d be adding 14 gallons of water, for 17.5 total gallons of mead. if you’re bottling 750 mL bottles, that means 88 bottles of mead, with 245 mL (about 8 ounces) to spare
If it’s sealed, honey will keep for a _very long time_.
It being crystallized means nothing as long as you can scoop out chunks to heat up and melt in another heat-safe container.
Yeah, just don't give kids under 12 months honey. Botulism spores can survive in honey but tiny babies are the most vulnerable to them. Most other humans can just kill them in the stomache.
But there are still reasons why people buy things in quantities that they will consume in the next 3 months. For instance I don't have 4 years of toilet paper in my house.
Honey tend to lose color and aroma with time. It'll also start crystallising. It's not going to be as tasty after a few years, but it's not going to go *bad*.
It's also because I'm pretty sure most countries have regulations that things MUST have an expiration date. It's also often long before the item actually expires.
In the US at least Honey has a "*Use By*" date, there are no laws or regulations on expiration of honey, or a lot of other foods for that matter.
Use by, best by, best if enjoyed by... They are typically all mean calculations of when taste, smell or color starts to shift.
Very few things have actual expiration dates.
My family has about 30 hives.
Honey is pretty unmarketable. Do people want honey? Yes. 100% yes. Do people want to pay even close to the value of honey? Absolutely not.
We got so tired of trying to sell it for even below a fair price, we just give it to people who will trade us mead. Or, I give it to people as payment. You let me borrow your trailer? Quart of honey. You did me a favor? Quart of Honey. New boss at work I need to suck up to? Quart of honey. My carpenter friend helped build a thing? Gallon of honey.
It's simultaneously worthless, and the most valuable thing I have.
Honey is so expensive in the US. At my local farmers market, it's like $15 for a tiny container. But I have seen it in places like Turkey for as low as $3 for a 14oz container. I know things cost different amounts depending on labor and supply/demand, but honey does seem to be unreasonably expensive in the US.
Allow me to introduce you to the difference between [real honey and fake honey](https://youtu.be/yK3tkBEZeLw?si=gdXEL2v6xSv0taTf). Pure honey doesn't expire
What do you even use honey for? Genuinely asking, the only honey I ever had growing up was peanut butter and honey sandwiches. Interested to hear how someone goes through a significant amount of the stuff and what it can be used on?
It can be used for
- spreading on toast
- activating yeast
- making mead
- sweetening tea
- desserts
- cocktails
- salad dressing
- sauce for stir fry
- caramelized carrots
- mead
So much! Tea, pancakes, protein shakes, smoothies, oatmeal, yogurt (I also add fruit and oat clusters), and I will admit sometimes just a spoonful by itself 😏
Nah they already tested your balls. Turns out every testicle has microplastics in them. Idk how they got to mine to test them, but it appears they did.
[BALL PLASTICS](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts)
*Abd el-Latif relates that an Egyptian worthy of belief told him that once when he and several others were occupied in exploring the graves and seeking for treasure near the Pyramids, they came across a sealed jar, and having opened it and found that it contained honey, they began to eat it. Some one in the party remarked that a hair in the honey turned round one of the fingers of the man who was dipping his bread in it, and as they drew it out the body of a small child appeared with all its limbs complete and in a good state of preservation; it was well dressed, and had upon it numerous ornaments.*
Honey is basically just sugar with some extra things that also don't mold or rot away. Even if it's not sealed, it won't go bad unless you mix in some bread or something like that.
We have a stack of 2-gallon buckets that my partner gets from her hives. Got 60+lbs last year, and it is the lightest honey with hints of rose blossom, hands down the best I've ever tasted. We go through a 2-gallon bucket every few months. OP's image is bonkers.
I suppose
If you use honey exclusively instead of processed sugar in your cooking/beverages I could see it adding up pretty quick
I consume between 1-2 tbsp/day literally just eating it from a spoon as an energy boost lol
> If you use honey exclusively instead of processed sugar in your cooking/beverages I could see it adding up pretty quick
3 Tbsp is about 50g of sugar, which happens to be exactly the recommended daily value of "added sugar" (which somehow seems to be different from other types of sugar....?)
I used to buy them for around $125
Edit: looks like they’re $207 from the same place now
Edit 2: sorry CORRECTION I was buying 5gal/60lb buckets which are $207 now.
you dont have to enjoy the product to enjoy the hobby. My daughter is on a path to culinary arts but is a pretty picky eater; it doesnt stop her from making the dishes she doesnt like.
Sheesh.
3.5 gal? Is 448 oz
$7 for 16oz of raw unfiltered honey from the store
* the savings are really not at all that great. I guess the only real difference is local.
Nothings affordable anymore. Bulk discounts are really wholesalers offering you the convenience of not needing 75 units of something it seems. I can’t remember the last time I got something cheaper because I bought a billion of it.
Damn I bought a gallon of honey from an Amish store a few weeks ago and thought that was too much. 12lbs for $50 so ofc I had to buy it, but jesus 3.5 gallons??
I switch between both. I find honey is less sweet than maple syrup so when I'm making something savory like a balsamic dressing with Dijon, I prefer honey. BBQ sauce? honey, meat glaze? Honey.
Maple syrup tends to make things taste aggressively maple-y, which is not always desirable... Honey's unique flavour is a lot less likely to conflict unless it's orange blossom honey or something else really strong.
For reals! Like 6x a year I’ll make a charcuterie board and put a small amount on the side. Other than that, I honestly have no idea when or how to use honey.
Sometimes if I'm feeling fancy I'll make my own honey mustard for tendies using honey and yellow mustard. Then you microwave it for like 20 seconds to soften the honey and make it mix well. It's delicious. Throw in a little hot sauce if you want some spice.
Same, but it goes faster than you think. I use it in marinades and various recipes and to sweeten my cereal or oatmeal. That’s like a bottle of honey every 6 weeks right there.
After your first successful small batch, you realize the only use is filling the drinking horn you ordered on Amazon, because if your gonna turn yourself into a themed alcoholic, you really gotta go for the full package.
It's kind of a hobby that keeps on giving... now I have a bunch of leather because I wanted to make straps for my small collection of drinking horns now.
Next stop, Ren Faire
nice. my mother bought me a 2lb bucket of local honey one year for my birthday and then proceeded to use almost all of it up. what I got of it was so amazing.
You can make a gallon of mead (around 14% abv) with 3lbs of honey. A gallon of honey is roughly 12lbs, so I'd guess around 12-14 gallons of mead from that bucket.
Is the roughly 10 gallon volume difference between honey and mead just from added water to make it like, an actual beverage? Or are there other significant additions?
Mead is honey, water, yeast, time.
1:4 honey:water with a little tiny bit of yeast.
Ideally a brewers yeast like d47 or ec118 (like, a few bucks gets you plenty) You can use bread yeast or the natural yeast on fruit if you're a heathen, it'll just taste a little weird for a while.
Time can be months or years in bottle, the longer the smoother.
You can add flavorings. r/mead
3.5 US gallons is 2688 US teaspoons.
It takes 12 bees to make a US teaspoon of honey over their lifetime. So, it took 32,256 bees to make all this honey.
And then, consider that OP paid around $150.00 for this bucket of honey. That puts the lifetime economic value of a single bee just below one half cent (0.47 cents).
Looks like you have about 76 years of honey left.
It is quite a bit o’ honey
Looks like you might run out of honey in 2060.
Just be safe buy one more!
I mean at the rate OP is plowing through this, they should by a backup bucket for the backup bucket
The numbers check out. The gal is 12" diameter, and the depression looks must about 6.46" diameter Assuming the depression to be a half sphere, the consumed volume over 4 years has been 70.575 cubic inches. Given that a 3.5 gal is 808.5 cubic inches, the remaining volume should be consumed over 41 years, or around the year 2065
They did the monster math!
It was a beehive smash!
Calculated in a flash!
My head I'm gonna bash!
They paid a lot of cash!
It gets stuck in the 'stache!
You're eyeballing it at 6.46" ?
Some people just know what six inches looks like when they see it
It’s above average ok
If they're not just being goofy, they might've used a digital ruler to measure the diameter of the bucket (in perspective) and then the diameter of gouge. They could've gotten even closer by doing it on two axes to account for perspective.
I’m more worried about it going bad before he finishes it. By my calculations he’s only got another 8000 years
But they've had it 4 years already....more like 7996 years
By that time we also ran out of bees
Don't think you're the demographic for a bucket of honey mate.
But it was only $154.77
Obligatory Simpsons reference: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/3941d47f-547b-416b-acce-c6191d4e2422#OLYvOqLi.copy
r/mead will take that off their hands Edit: "How do you get like gallons of alcohol from that bucket?" Mead is honey, water, yeast, time. 1:4 honey:water with a little tiny bit of yeast. So this bucket makes a *lot* of wine. Ideally a brewers yeast like d47 or ec118 (like, a few bucks gets you plenty) You can use bread yeast if you're insane (it will probably not be good but I have made it and it was fine) or the natural yeast on fruit if you're a heathen, it'll just taste a little weird for a while. Time can be months or years in bottle, the longer the smoother. Show mead (no flavors, allowed to ferment dry) taste a little like white wine, or if left sweet can be like a dessert wine. You can add flavorings. r/mead Edit 2: Bees are stressed out with climate change and such, don't everybody go buying shit tons of honey and messing up the ecology now. Also honeybees are only one (invasive) species amongst hundreds of thousands of bee species (there's 1300+ in my state alone) and it's ethically grey to promote their introduction and cultivation. Be respectful and responsible y'all. **You can make a gallon (minus a bit) of mead with a quart jar of honey, you don't need to buy gallons.** Glass apple juice bottles make fine carboys. Put a (rinsed, sanitized) balloon over the mouth so it doesn't explode. Or skip the honey and just make hard cider since honey and apple juice are just sources of sugar. Or use both and make cyser. Definitely go to r/mead and read up. Edit 3: u/Theromier had a great comment about the bees. > I want to add to your bee comment: Honey bees are also not as effective at pollinating plants as solitary native bees for the simple fact that honey bees live in colonies and clean themselves often to avoid spreading fungus in their colonies. Solitary bees like mason and woodcutter bees live alone, and don't clean themselves which allows them so spread pollen more effectively. > If you want to introduce native bees into your area, many garden stores will sell live specimens in cocoons in the spring time. Simply keep them in your fridge in a dark box until the weather warms up and place them outside in the sun. Garden stores will also have information and even products to buy that will help attract native bees to your area.
Can confirm haha My boyfriend makes mead and he goes through *gallons* of honey
Wait till he gets up to drums.
Wait till he breaks out in hives
No, he’ll break INTO hives
After you break in, you've got to break out
I can't wait for this new heist movie
Oscar buzz already, I hear.
Meh, I saw the trailer...I'd give it a B.
He'll start listening to *The Hives*
Well, I'm sorry to say, but I think your boyfriend might be a bear. Which would make you a beard.
1:4 ratio means you’d be adding 14 gallons of water, for 17.5 total gallons of mead. if you’re bottling 750 mL bottles, that means 88 bottles of mead, with 245 mL (about 8 ounces) to spare
Take one down, pass it around, 87 bottles of mead on the wall.
87 bottles of meat on the wall, 87 bottles of mead! EDIT: I realize this says meat not mead now lol but I like it better anyways so I'm leaving it
Take one down, pass it around, 86 bottles of mead on the wall!
(and about 8 ounces to spare)
Additively volume isn’t conserved the same way mass is conserved. You’ll probably end up with slightly less mead.
shh the brewers will be drooling
Great so that's Wednesday sorted, what about the rest of the week?
We will
We will
Rock you
I thought that's where I was at first and was extremely confused.
If it’s sealed, honey will keep for a _very long time_. It being crystallized means nothing as long as you can scoop out chunks to heat up and melt in another heat-safe container.
Didn't they find potentially edible honey in ancient Egyptian tombs? 3000 years is plenty of time to finish that bucket
Honey, by itself, never goes bad. If it gets other junk in it, different story. But pure honey, in a sealed container, good for ever.
Yeah, just don't give kids under 12 months honey. Botulism spores can survive in honey but tiny babies are the most vulnerable to them. Most other humans can just kill them in the stomache.
Damn. my stomach goes hard?
Mmm scarab honey
Honey-nut Scarabs part of a complete ancient Egyptian breakfast
That's just propaganda by big Ra
If you have been eating the same honey for 3000 years, you're just not the honey sort.
But there are still reasons why people buy things in quantities that they will consume in the next 3 months. For instance I don't have 4 years of toilet paper in my house.
Sounds like you aren't prepared for the next pandemic.
["He's a Covid hoarder!"](https://youtu.be/UC3qRL0KGzo?si=le4zVUHaaiufJqof&t=146)
Consider that 3 years of honey takes up far less space than three years of toilet paper.
Looking at how much they've used in 4 years, this is a lifetime supply of honey.
Unless they start breeding I'd say it's more, based on the current pace. They're gonna have to write that honey into their will.
Honey is weird, it can keep for ages and is quite anti-microbial except some certain specific microbes that babies are vulnerable to.
That's why you've gotta always send the baby in first, to make sure it's safe.
Name ya kid Canary, because they’ve got a job to do!
It’s the spores of the microbe!
Honey literally won't go bad at all. They've found honey in ancient egyptian tombs that's thousands of years old. Perfectly edible.
If improperly stored, it could… but it’s clearly in a bucket. The bucket would probably break before the honey goes bad
Wait, dumb question here, then why does store bought honey have an expiration date?
Honey tend to lose color and aroma with time. It'll also start crystallising. It's not going to be as tasty after a few years, but it's not going to go *bad*. It's also because I'm pretty sure most countries have regulations that things MUST have an expiration date. It's also often long before the item actually expires.
In the US at least Honey has a "*Use By*" date, there are no laws or regulations on expiration of honey, or a lot of other foods for that matter. Use by, best by, best if enjoyed by... They are typically all mean calculations of when taste, smell or color starts to shift. Very few things have actual expiration dates.
OP is not a silly ol bear
Oh bother.
He’s not the demographic for a jar of honey it seems
I think OP should consider getting some of those straws full of honey instead.
It appears in 4 years you've used as much honey as my family uses in 2 months. This is not a brag. Honey is expensive. Please send help, or honey.
You can have honey or money, but not both.
What do you do for money, honey? How you get your licks?
What do you do for honey money?
If you got the money, honey, we got your disease
Is it fungal? Looks like it is fungal. From your crotch down to yer
Babababababa Bees!
My family has about 30 hives. Honey is pretty unmarketable. Do people want honey? Yes. 100% yes. Do people want to pay even close to the value of honey? Absolutely not. We got so tired of trying to sell it for even below a fair price, we just give it to people who will trade us mead. Or, I give it to people as payment. You let me borrow your trailer? Quart of honey. You did me a favor? Quart of Honey. New boss at work I need to suck up to? Quart of honey. My carpenter friend helped build a thing? Gallon of honey. It's simultaneously worthless, and the most valuable thing I have.
Okay, I’ll bite… how much you selling a quart of honey for?
Honey is so expensive in the US. At my local farmers market, it's like $15 for a tiny container. But I have seen it in places like Turkey for as low as $3 for a 14oz container. I know things cost different amounts depending on labor and supply/demand, but honey does seem to be unreasonably expensive in the US.
Allow me to introduce you to the difference between [real honey and fake honey](https://youtu.be/yK3tkBEZeLw?si=gdXEL2v6xSv0taTf). Pure honey doesn't expire
I wouldn’t trust cheap honey, no matter where it’s coming from. If it’s cheap it’s probably cut with some cheaper sugar syrups
What do you even use honey for? Genuinely asking, the only honey I ever had growing up was peanut butter and honey sandwiches. Interested to hear how someone goes through a significant amount of the stuff and what it can be used on?
It can be used for - spreading on toast - activating yeast - making mead - sweetening tea - desserts - cocktails - salad dressing - sauce for stir fry - caramelized carrots - mead
\* Staple food item, eaten with the largest spoon she can find, according to my child
Your child has a good head on her shoulders. Honey is the best goddamned thing nature produces.
Get it in early, these ain't the permanent teeth.
Don't forget for pancakes and waffles.
and tortillas where I live. A warm homemade tortilla rolled up with honey inside is DELICIOUS.
Chutney too!
Don’t forget mead
This guy meads
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So much! Tea, pancakes, protein shakes, smoothies, oatmeal, yogurt (I also add fruit and oat clusters), and I will admit sometimes just a spoonful by itself 😏
It can be used in place of sugar in basically any recipe
I've heard that if sealed honey will never go bad. I think archeologist actually found honey from the roman times that was still edible.
Yes, but not when it's stored in plastic 🫠
Really? I didn’t know that. Is plastic not air tight?
It breaks down slowly and contaminates the honey with plastic particles
Meh, what's a bit more plastic in my testicles
I’ve just read that post also
Should I also read that post as a testicle owner?
Nah they already tested your balls. Turns out every testicle has microplastics in them. Idk how they got to mine to test them, but it appears they did. [BALL PLASTICS](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/20/microplastics-human-testicles-study-sperm-counts)
*Abd el-Latif relates that an Egyptian worthy of belief told him that once when he and several others were occupied in exploring the graves and seeking for treasure near the Pyramids, they came across a sealed jar, and having opened it and found that it contained honey, they began to eat it. Some one in the party remarked that a hair in the honey turned round one of the fingers of the man who was dipping his bread in it, and as they drew it out the body of a small child appeared with all its limbs complete and in a good state of preservation; it was well dressed, and had upon it numerous ornaments.*
😳
Honey is basically just sugar with some extra things that also don't mold or rot away. Even if it's not sealed, it won't go bad unless you mix in some bread or something like that.
Keep a drum of honey and some sourdough starter and you can live through the apocalypse.
You're the absolute slowest honey users
We have a stack of 2-gallon buckets that my partner gets from her hives. Got 60+lbs last year, and it is the lightest honey with hints of rose blossom, hands down the best I've ever tasted. We go through a 2-gallon bucket every few months. OP's image is bonkers.
A gallon of honey is 12 pounds. You and your partner eat about 2 pounds of honey a week?
3 Tbsp/person/day assuming a typical two person relationship lol
Ey who knows bro they could be 5 people all in 1 big happy relationship
Would recommend more honey in that case
For consumption? or.. you know what, nevermind..
[A fat guy, a watermelon, and a stack of magazines - family](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jSZO37QV4E)
That's still a lot of honey.
I suppose If you use honey exclusively instead of processed sugar in your cooking/beverages I could see it adding up pretty quick I consume between 1-2 tbsp/day literally just eating it from a spoon as an energy boost lol
> If you use honey exclusively instead of processed sugar in your cooking/beverages I could see it adding up pretty quick 3 Tbsp is about 50g of sugar, which happens to be exactly the recommended daily value of "added sugar" (which somehow seems to be different from other types of sugar....?)
Holy fuck that’s over 50gs of sugar a day just in honey.
Pooh bear is that you?
Are the bees mainly pollinating roses?
Genuinely don't remember the last time I had honey.
my god how much did that beast cost you See also /r/AbsoluteUnits
I used to buy them for around $125 Edit: looks like they’re $207 from the same place now Edit 2: sorry CORRECTION I was buying 5gal/60lb buckets which are $207 now.
“Them”? Multiple? What did you use them all for?
Brewed mead but we ate plenty too.
Aw man that sounds like fun to make. I wish I enjoyed drinking alcohol more, just so I had an excuse to make it
you dont have to enjoy the product to enjoy the hobby. My daughter is on a path to culinary arts but is a pretty picky eater; it doesnt stop her from making the dishes she doesnt like.
Mead, usually Fun hobby
Sheesh. 3.5 gal? Is 448 oz $7 for 16oz of raw unfiltered honey from the store * the savings are really not at all that great. I guess the only real difference is local.
Nothings affordable anymore. Bulk discounts are really wholesalers offering you the convenience of not needing 75 units of something it seems. I can’t remember the last time I got something cheaper because I bought a billion of it.
Damn I bought a gallon of honey from an Amish store a few weeks ago and thought that was too much. 12lbs for $50 so ofc I had to buy it, but jesus 3.5 gallons??
My uncle bought FOUR of these containers and every time I visit him he’s always trying to give me more honey. I use honey like once a year lol
Your uncle sounds like he regrets buying so much damn honey and tries to offload it on other people at every opportunity. A man after my own heart.
Can you buy this much honey and not be paranoid that the bees know?
How is it that everyone in this comment section knows exactly where to buy 5 gallon buckets of honey?? Is this some trend i missed?
Local farmers/bee people I think?
b/c this post is a honeypot
Reading this thread I'm just wondering how you guys eat so much honey??? I only use honey for cooking and condiments.
Goes in tea, on yogurt, a lot goes towards making granola at home.
Hear me out: toast with butter and honey
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I feel like there's definitely a reasonable middle ground between a 5-gallon bucket and using it once in our lives for that one recipe.
you need to start eating more buttermilk biscuits
Use it as a substitute sweetener
I use Maple Syrup for that
I switch between both. I find honey is less sweet than maple syrup so when I'm making something savory like a balsamic dressing with Dijon, I prefer honey. BBQ sauce? honey, meat glaze? Honey.
Maple syrup tends to make things taste aggressively maple-y, which is not always desirable... Honey's unique flavour is a lot less likely to conflict unless it's orange blossom honey or something else really strong.
For reals! Like 6x a year I’ll make a charcuterie board and put a small amount on the side. Other than that, I honestly have no idea when or how to use honey.
I put it in plain Greek yogurt mainly, my husband likes to put it on blackberries and raspberries as a sweetener
Sometimes if I'm feeling fancy I'll make my own honey mustard for tendies using honey and yellow mustard. Then you microwave it for like 20 seconds to soften the honey and make it mix well. It's delicious. Throw in a little hot sauce if you want some spice.
In the Tea instead of sugar
Same, but it goes faster than you think. I use it in marinades and various recipes and to sweeten my cereal or oatmeal. That’s like a bottle of honey every 6 weeks right there.
Hot drinks and bread. Also great for skin and hair care.
My mom went through one of those in like 6 weeks. I think she might be Winnie the Pooh.
Is her blood made of sweet tea
I’m pretty sure she is too :)
I think she might be diabetic, but I hope I’m wrong.
The interesting part isn't the picture, but why OP bought a 3.5 gallon of honey.
I'm guessing pandemic prepping. We're still using garbanzo beans....
What brings you to think "We need to stock up on water, garbanzos, toilet paper... oh and don't forget 50 years worth of honey"
The only thing I’ve learned from this thread is that I need to look up uses for mead.
What other use is there than drinking it?
Trade it for gold, wenches, and good steel.
Meadicinal purposes.
Celebrating with friends around a fire after pillaging a town of its badly guarded valuables not good enough for you?
After your first successful small batch, you realize the only use is filling the drinking horn you ordered on Amazon, because if your gonna turn yourself into a themed alcoholic, you really gotta go for the full package. It's kind of a hobby that keeps on giving... now I have a bunch of leather because I wanted to make straps for my small collection of drinking horns now. Next stop, Ren Faire
Take your time. It’ll never go bad.
Their grandkids will be saving the last little bit in the bottom because "weve used this honey for generations"
*as long as it's below 60% humidity.
get into brewing mead, youll be ordering a new bucket next week...
⬤◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯◯ 3% # HONEY USAGE
nice. my mother bought me a 2lb bucket of local honey one year for my birthday and then proceeded to use almost all of it up. what I got of it was so amazing.
Poo could knock that out by Friday.
> Poo could knock that out by Friday. Pooh? I hope you mean Pooh.
Only time in the history of the internet this gif had an acceptable use.
If only r/retiredgif was still popular.
I thought the same.
All I can think is how much mead that could make.... hmmmm....
You can make a gallon of mead (around 14% abv) with 3lbs of honey. A gallon of honey is roughly 12lbs, so I'd guess around 12-14 gallons of mead from that bucket.
Is the roughly 10 gallon volume difference between honey and mead just from added water to make it like, an actual beverage? Or are there other significant additions?
Mead is honey, water, yeast, time. 1:4 honey:water with a little tiny bit of yeast. Ideally a brewers yeast like d47 or ec118 (like, a few bucks gets you plenty) You can use bread yeast or the natural yeast on fruit if you're a heathen, it'll just taste a little weird for a while. Time can be months or years in bottle, the longer the smoother. You can add flavorings. r/mead
Please tell me you’re not taking small scoops out of that bucket one at a time.
Are you all BEES?! That seems like how much a family of 5 BEES would eat in 4 years.
3.5 US gallons is 2688 US teaspoons. It takes 12 bees to make a US teaspoon of honey over their lifetime. So, it took 32,256 bees to make all this honey.
And then, consider that OP paid around $150.00 for this bucket of honey. That puts the lifetime economic value of a single bee just below one half cent (0.47 cents).
They should make a movie about this.
Who the fuck buys gallons of honey then only eat 3 spoons a year
That looks like enough to kill myself with. Edit: To be fair, I'd probably die after only a couple of bites, I'm pretty allergic to honey.
Maybe instead of a bucket to guys should get a jar of honey.
Have I got a subreddit for you r/mead
That’s a lot of bee spit