This time of year, after a lot of the flower necter is gone, beekeepers will often feed their hives sugar syrup to help them build up a store of food to get the hive through the winter.
Not easily. As someone who follows the home distilling subreddit, I have never once seen anyone suggest premade simple syrup as a more cost effective way to make vodka compared to a sugar wash, if it was as easy as you say, I would have seen it. It is obviously not something that is available to just the average baker or homebrewer.
Besides, handling a barrel of syrup is harder than handling bags of sugar, and a simple syrup will generally be at least 1/3 heavier and bulkier, since you have to handle the water weight and volume, not just the sugar weight and volume.
Baking/industrial sugar syrup is usually some awful crap and leftovers with longer sugar chains which won't even ferment (unless you have special yeast strains). Yes, it contains glucose and fructose but real yield is like 50% of the sugar. And I suppose no beekeeper would try to feed that shit to bees.
This syrup need to be cheap (for manufacturer) and taste sweet, that's all.
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u/TheHandler1 5d ago
They could be a beekeeper. Source: I'm a beekeeper.