6-15-21 Tonight we're staying in North American and headed for the Great White North, Manitoba, Canada, to be precise. Kon and Julie Paseschnikoff own Bee Boyzz Honey and Mead in Oak Bluff, Manitoba.

Theirs is a multi-generation business, starting out with Kon Sr. keeping bees many years ago in Venezuela, then Kon getting involved in his dad's market gardening business, and being pulled into bees when his dad started as a hobby beekeeper. Just before his dad passed, he suggested Kon continue with the bees, and those bees arrived shortly after the funeral. Those bees brought Kon closer to his dad, and helped him in his grief at his loss. His wife Julie was big on encouraging him with his bees.

Now, the Paseschnikoffs have around 250 hives, and three kids ranging in age from 23 down to 16 who all help to run the honey business. They named the business BeeBoyzz after the 'boys' tending the bees.

As they grew, they realized that they wanted to diversify and stand out in the honey business. So they created a line of flavoured honeys and got them into local stores. At that point Kon said, 'we need to make mead'!

Kon and Julie went off to mead classes at UC Davis in California, and got hooked. They figured their prairie honey would make great mead (we all know how flavorful that prairie honey is!), and they were right. So they hired a talented mead maker who was a hobby meadmaker to help them ramp up production.

They started off with a traditional they called Harvest Gold, and have since expanded to several meads, including canning now.

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Show links and notes

Top, Middle and Base Notes: A Comprehensive List
The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual - James Green and Ajana
Food Pairing website
The Flavor Bible
The Flavor Matrix - the Art and Science of Pairing Common Ingredients to Create Extrordinary Dishes
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Unlock'd - Historical mead recipes
Wellcome Mead by Laura Angotti
Let There Be Melomels by Rob Ratliff
The Big Book of Mead Recipes by Rob Ratliff
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