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Boiled Alive: Turning Bees Into Mead

Sacrificing a beehive for a viking-era drink
Sep 20, 2011 10:01 am
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I have a hard time explaining what happened to my bees. The short answer is, I killed them. Thousands of bees, and I killed them. I repeat this to myself in shock and wonder; wonder at the scale, so artificially vast, and the shame, as real and finite as a sting.

But the long answer is darker still: It wasn’t a massacre, it was an experiment. I was making...

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Over at BrewYour Own: The how-to homebrew beer magazine the editors are tasting beer made with coffee bean that have been previously, um, digested and excreted by civets. 

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