How Can Beer and Honey Alone Make Your Day

You might think honey can only be consumed with water? In fact, the combination of honey and beer can make  mouthwatering meals. In addition, high-quality honey contains many important antioxidants. These include organic acids and phenolic compounds like flavonoids. Scientists believe that the combination of these compounds gives honey its antioxidant power. Antioxidants have linked to a reduced risk of heart attacks, strokes and some types of cancer. They may also promote eye health.

It will take you fewer than 20 mins to make any of the following dishes each  – it's time to show off your cooking skills when putting together with family and friends. :-)

Among the healthy scrumptious dishes recommended today, two of them use beer as an ingredient. We're delighted to introduce a new Swiss beer combined with honey: Appenzeller Mielfiore (Honey Beer).

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PERKS

We've two special offers today, and they are:

1) 6-pack beer including Mielfiore mentioned above (Valid dates: 29/05-07/06), starting from ¥0/set

2）Appenzeller Quöllfrisch & Vollmond (Valid dates: 25/05-31/05), starting from ¥46/set

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Bees have an important impact on our environment and economy. Even though sometimes they are annoying buzzers but truly speaking we should appreciate and take care of bees.

Beers are amazing creatures and are present all around the world. They are one of the best pollinators in the world, and a lot of the food we eat depends on their hard work. The world without bees is unimaginable as their extinction would greatly affect our economy and food resources. 

#1 Inbuilt GPS
Honey bees have remarkable navigational skills. They rely on distinct landmarks such as trees or houses which are then memorized for future flights. Even a sick bee is very useful for finding resources for the hive because of the search pattern used by the bees - Levy search pattern. This search pattern is a natural mathematical pattern which alternates between clusters of short steps interjected with longer steps.

#2 Only female honey bees can sting

Honey bee stings are one of the most known honey bee facts. In a traditional beehive, bees that sting are worker bees and the queen. They use their stinger as a weapon when protecting the hive. A bee that is away from the beehive will usually not sting unless provoked by rough handling or getting stepped on.

#3 Male honey bees are kicked out of the hive when they cannot mate

Male honey bees, also known as drones, lead a life very different from the life of a worker bee. They are larger, don’t have a stinger, cannot collect pollen, and are physically unable to do work around the hive. Pretty much their only two jobs in the beehive are eating and mating.

Since queens are produced only when the weather is nice enough, in cold weather drones are unable to perform their primary function - mating. In winter drones only use up the resources while not providing anything to the beehive, so they are kicked out.

#4 Honey bees can recognize human faces.

You might be surprised that face recognition is among honey bee facts, but it is pretty remarkable. We thought that face recognition was reserved only for animals with large brains, with an area of the brain specially reserved for face recognition.

However, scientists have found that this is not true. To us humans honey bees all look the same, but we might not all look the same to them. A study has shown that honey bees can learn to recognize human faces in photos, and also can remember the faces even two days after seeing them.

#5 A single bee produces only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey during its lifetime

Such a low amount of honey doesn’t seem much, but you have to take into consideration that worker honey bees live only six weeks in the summer. Also, honey bees can forage only on days when the weather allows them since the temperature needs to be above 10°C (50°F).

This means that one teaspoon of honey that you put in your tea has had a lot of hard work put into it. A single teaspoon of honey needs honey of about 12 honey bees. Honey is food for bees and in winter they can use even 20 kg of honey. One of honey bee facts is that honey bees definitely work hard for their honey.

A single jar of honey which weights 454 grams requires about 22,700 trips to the flower and back. One bee can carry about 0.04 grams of nectar, but you need to remember that nectar is only 40% sugar, while honey needs to be 80% sugar. This means that bee actually carries only about 0.02 grams of honey on each trip. Theoretically, when the colony is most productive it could produce around 800 kg of honey! However, since bees use honey as fuel, there is usually only 10-20 kg of honey in the beehive at any given time.