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Springer

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Anyone know anything about producing brewers yeast, the stuff bought in tubs as a food supplement. Can be had from H & B for £4 a pound, but I think its the stuff left in the bottom of the fermenter and I produce plenty of that ? :lol:
Reason for asking is that it is in a recipe for feeding to bees, one of my other hobbies, to wind them up quickly in spring. I think the sediment needs heating up to 60 degrees to kill the yeast and then maybe drying or freezing until needed :?
Don't want to get the bees through winter and then kill them . :cry:
 
That's all we need drunk bee's...

Exactly what I thought, they can be nasty bast....s sometimes could be even worse when they have had a drink :evil: :lol:

Thats the way I had it UP, so up to Sixty degrees in the oven, to kill the yeast and then even leave it there for a while to dry it out maybe ?
The vitamin B is the stuff as you say, gets um working, better not post what I'm thinking ..............
 
Springer said:
That's all we need drunk bee's...

Exactly what I thought, they can be nasty bast....s sometimes could be even worse when they have had a drink :evil: :lol:

Thats the way I had it UP, so up to Sixty degrees in the oven, to kill the yeast and then even leave it there for a while to dry it out maybe ?
The vitamin B is the stuff as you say, gets um working, better not post what I'm thinking ..............

The other thing brewers yeast is full of is chromium, that's what the cosmetic companies like it for.

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How do you feed it to the bees?

I've always fancied keeping them, definitely when we move to the country. I never really thought they needed feeding though!
 
just catching up on the forum
I've been up in Northumberland this week, getting snowed in, at a cottage, not that sort, :eek: a nice sort, ;)

[quote:2y8l92b3]The other thing brewers yeast is full of is chromium
Shall I put some in the bees wax polish then to give it an edge :D

How do you feed it to the bees
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You mix it up with some other stuff, and make pan cake with it, to get them up and running after the Winter, ready to get to work on early crops like rape.
They need feeding with sugar solution if you have nicked the honey from them, :lol:
 
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