coreyc23:
Our old queens were producing sloppy cone and fairly aggressive bees. We executed them and replaced them with some nice chill Italian queens. Some of that honey now gets converted to honey wine and the entire hive is much more relaxed. :)
coreyc23:
Second jar of liquid gold. Not terribly hard to extract with my homemade extractor, but decided to buy a centrifuge anyway. With a centrifuge I can take the honey without damaging the honey comb. This way the bees just have to collect more honey and ca
coreyc23:
Degassing "show" mead after 2 days of fermenting. 4.5 gallons of water, 14 pounds of our honey, a robust Lavlin wine yeast, and some organic nitrogen. This will get broken down into batches of ginger, mango, and hibiscus meads during second fermentation
coreyc23:
And the hives just keep growing... And in theory the nectar for hasn't really even started yet! I hope my friends and family all like honey wine!
coreyc23:
First extraction from hive. We were stunned how much honey we pulled from just 8 frames. 40 pounds. And this is only 1/3rd of the honey we could have extracted.
coreyc23:
Sterling Castle outside Edinborough Scotland - castle bees defending the wall? It was cold and rainy so not a lot of activity from the hive.
