[Sca-cooks] Bug Luurrve...

[Aurore]

This brew should be named "Honey, I love you.  Let's do the buggy."
Aurore

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jones, Craig" <Craig.Jones at airservicesaustralia.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:00 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Bug Luurrve...


> Hey, I have a cool story to share...
>
> I was teaching a mead making class for St Aldhelms last night.  Anyone
> who's made mead knows that when you boil honey and water on the stove
> you get a lovely and pervasive smell.  Being a hot summers night, I had
> all the windows open (with flyscreens)
>
> Out of nowhere, there was the sounds of rain bashing on the windows.
> When I had a look, there were 30-40,000 (no exaggeration) little
> Christmas beetles (smaller and more elongated than usual) clinging (2-3
> deep) to the outside of the windows and flyscreens, bouncing off the
> windows and maddingly buzzing around any light source.
>
> Someone opened a door to place a decoy of honey outside which only
> served to let a couple of hundred into the kitchen.
>
> The mead was hurriedly finished and poured into the fermenter and I
> don't think any beetles got in to it.
>
> This morning I cleaned bugs from every part of the kitchen and I had to
> sweep thousands of dead bugs from the paths.  There were many beetles
> still attached to flyscreens, nearly all of them with another beetle
> cunning placed on top, doing the 'wild thing'.
>
> Drake's brew even works randy beetles into a bug sh*gfest... How
> romantic...
>
> Bizarre huh?  What witty name should I call the brew?
>
> Drake.
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