Bee in the brew pot

[Greathead]

I recently brewed up a batch of winter warmer. During the boil, I was fending off some interested bees. After 2 weeks of primary, I pulled the top off of my fermenter, and much to my surprise, found one of the bees drowned in my ale (not a bad way to go).

My question to the community: Could the fermented bee cause any problems with the beer? (tasters with bee allergies, flavor issues, etc.) Or maybe I could just write it off as the secret ingredient in my new beer - Jingle Buzz..

Has this happened to anyone else?

 

[andy777]

It all depends on if the bee was sanitized or not. If it landed and the boil and ended up getting a few minutes of boil time, I'm say you're fine. Even better than fine, because now you have a story and can use that cool name.

If the bee landed in there on the cool side, it could have introduced bacteria. How does it taste?

 

[Fletch78]

Here we go again...


This beer will give you quite a buzz...

 

[Fletch78]

Bee patient, it will age out....

 

[Fletch78]

That's what happens when you just wing it.

 

[Fletch78]

Relax, Don't Worry, Have a Drone Brew

 

[Fletch78]

You really upped the I Bee U's on this one...

 

[TheWeeb]

If the bee landed in there on the cool side, it could have introduced bacteria. How does it taste?

The brew or the bee?

Ouch, that one stung!

 

[Nurmey]

Silly guy, there are easier ways to get honey into your brew.

Seriously, it happens all the time and I've never heard of it causing a problem. Welcome to HBT!

 

[isurf]

Bee careful next time.

 

[agodfrey11]

I had an acorn from an oak tree land in a few brews ago at about 10 minutes into the boil. I figured it was fine since it was in the boil. I guess we shall see how it turns out. Acorn Bitter...

 

[Brewenstein]

Brewed Jamil's Black Widow Porter a couple of months ago. As we were straining the wort into the fermenters, my son discovered a large bumble bee that had obviously gotten into the boil at some point. Beer is fine. Re-named to Bumble Bee Porter !

 

[BennyN]

"Drone Brew" Someone really needs to use that!

 

[BigJerk]

Bee in your bonnet?

 

[Banjoman76]

Don't worry, Bee Happy :rockin:

 

[biochemedic]

This has nearly happened to me a couple times...if you don't know how many bees live around your house, just try brewing a mead that needs boiling as part of the process (hop metheglin) outside in the summer!!!

 

[specialkaye]

Doesn't do much good to worry about the past. If something is really wrong, you'll know soon enough. I think I would just wring him out and pour another one.

 

[Greathead]

This is hilarious. Give some guys a couple of brews and a keyboard and look what they come up with! Thanks for the feedback - the bee probably got in towards the end of the boil, so I'll just plan on tapping this in a few weeks and updating the blog.

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