[foodhackingbase] Beekeeping

[Marcel van der Peijl]

Hi,

By the time we’ll open the fhb schedule for congress, you should pick a spot for your presentation or workshop (which is it?) and how many people can attend, and if there is a cost to it, and the suggested or minimum donation.

We are currently planning to already have a projector and screen available at fhb thanks to ‘justa’ the beer fridge guy, although your little projector was nice too.

Looking forward to the presentation! I am considering making a batch of mead myself, and hope to learn enough about it.

Marcel (aka ‘bigmac’)


From: Jérôme
Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 10:27 AM
To: foodhackingbase at lists.hackerspaces.org
Subject: Re: [foodhackingbase] Beekeeping


On 1. Nov 2018, at 09:26, Marcel van der Peijl  wrote:

Hi,
 
The larp events are 400-500 people 3-day events.

I won’t bring in mead for 400 people. 



Lots of people bring bottles, but most commercial, most sweet. But also some homebrewn maed which was less sweet but very good, made by someone who’d get 10kg honey batches from her bee keeping friend.

>From 10 kg honey, you would get about 30 litres mead or 40 bottles. Just for you to know.


 
As for ‘tasting’ quantity you bring to congress – I was trying to figure out if you want to bring 1 bottle or 24. The drink tasting sessions (cidre, beer, whisky) usually take that amount of bottles if announced publicly as a tasting session, if there were many different flavours to taste etc. But just a small sip for anyone who signed up for your presentation/workshop is also fine

I don’t have several flavours to taste, all the mead I make is from my own honey. I’ll think about a small sip to go with the workshop, but I am not sure whether we want to announce it beforehand or keep it as a surprise.



 
If the hands on session would let everyone who joins leave with a small or big bottle they made themselves ready to drink 2 months later, that would be fine. That is not uncommon for our workshops like kimchi making.
 
We also make kimchi. Kimchi can be packed even when fermenting. It just smells funny.

Fermenting liquids is a whole different story. You don’t want to do that in a bottle, generally. It may burst and that is dangerous. I would not feel ok with people packing such a bottle for the trip back.
Fermenting is also dependent on quantity, a batch of about 20 litres is the minimum I would do. Smaller does not taste as nice and the risk of the batch going bad is higher. I’ll explain that in the presentation. 
So, basically, we are talking about 20 litres vented containers. People won’t bring that back home


So it’s really up to you to choose what you want to present or do at the foodhackingbase with mead, and the size of the event. Whatever you feel comfortable with.
 
Cheers,
 
Marcel
 
 
 
 
From: Jérôme
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:57 PM
To: foodhackingbase at lists.hackerspaces.org
Subject: Re: [foodhackingbase] Beekeeping
 
 
On 31. Oct 2018, at 09:17, Marcel van der Peijl  wrote:
 
Hi,
 
Sure! Will there be a lot of maed for sampling/tasting?
(…)
(I play larp – Live Action Role Playing and a we drink lots of maed in that setting, also home brews, so I’d be interested myself)
 
I am not so sure what you have in mind here… ;) Just for the record: what do you exactly mean by “a lot of mead”? How much do you drink in the “larp” sessions and how many players are there?
 
Also: what kind of mead do you drink? Most people associate mead with a sweet drink, but it does not need to be so.



Does it make sense to do a hands on workshop in maed making in stead of a presentation? 
 
 
Making mead takes about 2-3 months and some for it to improve. The  congress lasts 4 days. Do you have a time machine?


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