Candy Win For Waupaca Bees
Kent Pegorsch of Dancing Bear Apiary not too long ago gained an award for his Waupaca Wildflower honey on the Black Jar Honey Tasting Contest, a contest to establish one of the best tasting honey on the planet. James Card Photograph
Native honey ranked world class
By James Card
Kent Pegorsch not too long ago gained an award that’s the equal of the Tremendous Bowl of beekeeping.
Pegorsch is the proprietor of Dancing Bear Apiary. He submitted his Waupaca Wildflower honey to the Black Jar Honey Tasting Contest organized by the Heart for Honeybee Analysis.
The aim of the competition is to establish one of the best tasting honey on the planet. The competition is known as “Black Jar” as a result of all the honey jars are shrouded in a coded black bag so the judges solely deal with style and never coloration or readability.
Annually 500 to 1,000 entries are submitted. Out of these, the judges picked 12 winners and the Waupaca honey was amongst them.
Different successful honeys got here from Spain, South Carolina, Hungary, Alaska, Uruguay, Vermont, Netherlands, Kansas and two from Slovakia. The honey from Spain took the grand prize.
The Waupaca honey Pegorsch submitted gained within the Medium Amber class. He entered for the primary time the yr earlier than and he missed being in last 30 entries.
On Sunday, June 4, Pegorsch was working in his bee yard when he heard the information. Stephanie Slater, a fellow Wisconsin beekeeper and good friend, was on the completion and referred to as him.
“I simply wished to be the primary to congratulate you that you just’re within the finals,” Slater stated. Then his mobile phone reception minimize out. He refreshed his telephone over and over.
Pegorsch was working together with his son and so they found the occasion was being reside streamed on-line besides there was no sound because the winners had been being introduced.
“It was a really intense day. They later confirmed it on Tuesday. I used to be just a little onerous to get together with for 2 days,” stated Pegorsch. “This validates that I do know my honey is a extremely good tasting honey when competing towards honeys from all around the world. That’s an important factor that I get out of this contest and I’ll undoubtedly be competing in future years,” he stated.
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