Pre-capped honey

[limyw]

I observed bees would take few days to rippen honey and cap. But why honey stored in hive does not get fermented before capping? :?

[Understudy]

Usually no. The bees work at evaporating the water out of it until it is right. Then cap it.
Honey ferements because if yeast. Yeast likes water. Bees like to remove water from their honey. The lower the water content the less likely to ferment. Honey is one food that does not spoil. So if the water content is low enough the honey is of a good quality and will not ferment.

Sincerely,
Brendhan

[Mici]

those few days, bees are ACTIVELY evaporating the moisture out, when they suck it, they also filter it, guess they filter yeasts too

[limyw]

Mici, you mean before honey is capped, there is no yeast in the honey? So this makes honey doesnt ferments?

[Michael Bush]

There may not be any "in" it but the caps get that white bloom on them and that is sugar tolerant yeast.

[Mici]

Mici, you mean before honey is capped, there is no yeast in the honey? So this makes honey doesnt ferments?

not really, but before the honey is cured, bees have to cure it, now this doesn't occur by itself, work it so they probably also filter it-removing the yeast and once it is cured, even though they may not cap it, the water content is too low, or sugar content is too high.