Recent content by olriley

My first year selling. Went for £8/lb at shop or market and £7.50 over the gate. Lots of repeat business and sold out now. Hertfordshire. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Total absconding is unusual. Keep your chins up and seek a mentor - maybe Millet or GJ are in range?

I think you’re right, although it’s a careful balance because sweet beer can be cloying. Yes honey ferments out to pretty much complete dryness (so long as the yeast survives the alcohol content) and just leaves flavour compounds. My ale ‘backbone’ is basically an Old Speckled Hen clone so it...

I have experimented with some 1gal batches of Braggot - honey beer - this year. I brew all-grain beer already so I made a batch of proven strong ale wort and then mixed it at two ratios with a mead must before fermenting the whole in demijohns. Just gone into the bottles for secondary...

They don't quite say 'as good as' but they do say EIS and syrup yielded 'similar' results to honey, which is an odd choice of words, given the clear trend in their results ... well that's subjectivity for you (the words I mean) ... maybe they were afraid to draw bolder conclusions? Anyway its...

They found out that in the bees which were fed honey in their experiment lived longer, and upon dissection had died with healthier (or less-damaged) guts, than those fed sugar syrup (either plain, invert, or a fortified in various ways). What is unclear (and to be fair not attempted by the...

They are not quoting winter lifespans, although they consider that themselves to be working with 'winter bees'. They state: "Study was conducted during autumn of 2012, in controled conditions, by using 48 mini laboratory cages with capacity of 150-200 bees each"

Quick question. Apologies that it relates to feeding, which is off the original topic, but hey I think jumped that shark about 3 pages ago. It's a genuine question, not designed to antagonise, just want to know - has this paper been discussed on here ?, and if so can someone pls point me to the...

Knocked up a long stand for my winter nucs out of some old 2x4.

It’s me not being up in the lingo then - to me a section is a piece of something - so in my head we’re talking about the same thing :) So in beekeeping land, section specifically means those dinky wooden sub-frames?

I wasn’t advising the OP to do that ... just explaining it’s what I do (I cut them from a whole, foundationless frame), so they would have the context behind why I get a uniform weight.

They look lovely. Depending on the variation, you might price them individually by weight or just work out an average.

I cut mine so they are 225g to fit the little ‘crystal’ boxes. Charging £6 (at the gate). I am near Hertford.

Hehe, well I made one comment and have been dodging flak for the next hundred posts! :D

Am I still allowed to say I’m a non-smoker, even though I dabbled in the 1990s? Come on... I don’t feed my bees sugar. I don’t intend to. Label claims nothing else.