Floris honey schnapps
Honey schnapps made from valuable uncapped wax
Have you ever heard of uncapping wax? It is a particularly sought-after product from beekeeping. Flori, the host at the South Tyrolean hiking hotel Jaufentalerhof, is a passionate beekeeper and uses uncapping wax to make a delicious honey schnapps, the recipe for which he reveals exclusively here.
The uncapping wax—also known as virgin wax—is partly freshly produced by the bees' wax glands and partly used from existing honeycomb construction, which protects the mature honey from humidity and preserves it. If a honeycomb is a pot full of honey, then the virgin wax is the lid. To extract the honey from the honeycomb, the beekeeper removes the wax with a uncapping fork – some of the honey remains on the wax, which later ends up in honey schnapps. This is partly because, in addition to honey, the wax also contains the following substances, which dissolve in alcohol during the production of honey schnapps:
... pour over the uncapped honey so that it is well covered. Leave the mixture to stand for a month & stir daily so that the honey, pollen, propolis and all the beneficial active ingredients dissolve. Then add the bourbon whisky and leave to stand for another two weeks, stirring daily.
Sieve everything through a very fine filter and add distilled water to reduce the alcohol content to 40%.
... I would want to live with Flori and Dunja. In the quiet valley head of South Tyrol's Jaufental, there are flowers, forests and nature like nowhere else in the Alps. And when I needed a break from being so industrious, I would sit on the flowers between the sun loungers on the terrace of the Jaufentalerhof hiking hotel. And I was delighted to see how happy you are on your hiking holiday in South Tyrol.
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