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2008 HONEY SHOW
Judge: Terry
Ashley
A Honey Show will be held on the Saturday of
the conference. Entry is open to all beekeepers who are
members of the nine beekeeping associations in the MSWCC
group. There is a cup for the association whose beekeepers win
the most first prizes. There are no fees for entry.
Click here
for the
entry form.
Please read the schedule and rules carefully, since however good
your exhibits they cannot win if they do not comply with the stated
requirements.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
- Two jars of light honey
- Two jars of medium honey
- Two jars of dark honey
- Two jars of soft
set or granulated honey
- One shallow comb suitable for
extraction
- Two cut comb, approximately 227g (8oz)
each
- One bottle of dry mead
- One bottle of sweet
mead
- One cake of beeswax, unpatterned, approximately 227g
(8oz)
- One honey cake to the following
recipe:
Ingredients
140g (5oz)
butter 115g (4oz) soft brown sugar
170g (6oz)
clear honey 2 eggs
1 tablespoon
water 200g (7oz) self raising flour
Place butter, sugar, honey and water in a saucepan
and heat until the butter has melted, stirring all the time.
Remove the pan from the heat and allow the contents to cool to
about blood temperature. Gradually beat in the eggs.
Add sieved flour and mix until smooth (but do not over-mix).
Pour the mixture into a greased and lined cake tin and bake for 1
hour or until risen and firm to the touch. Oven temperature:
180ºC/350ºC/gas mark 4.
RULES
- Entry labels will be provided on the day of the conference
and should be positioned as follows:
Jars of honey (classes 1-4):
approximately 12mm (½") from the bottom of the jar
Comb for
extracting (class 5): one label on the top right hand corner of the
glass
and a second on the top bar of the frame itself
Cut comb
(class 6): approximately 12mm (½") from the bottom of the
container
Mead (classes 7,8): approximately 12mm (½") from the
bottom of the bottle
Beeswax and honey cakes (classes 9, 10): on
the container or plate.
- Honey in classes 1-4 must be in plain 454g (1lb) squat
glass jars with lacquered lids.
- A comb for extraction must be in a bee proof case and
removable for judging.
- Cut comb must be shown in standard white 227g (8oz)
containers.
- Mead must be shown in 70-75cl clear punted glass bottles
with flanged removable stoppers.
- First, second and third prize certificates will be awarded
in each class where the exhibits merit them. The association
whose members have the most first prizes will hold the Inter
Counties Cup for one year. In the event of a tie, the second
and third prizes will be taken into account, but only when they are
not from the same association as the first prize.
- Any number of members from a given association may enter
each class, but no one person may have more than one entry in each
class.
- The honey show is open only to members of beekeeping
associations which are part of the Midlands & South Western
Counties Convention, viz Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Gwent,
Herefordshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, Northamptonshire, South
Staffordshire, Swansea & District and Worcestershire.
- The decision of the judge is
final.
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