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Sorry the other half's favourite wine comes on a dark bottle and I'm too tight to buy bottles from home brew sites.

My basic mead has been racked and is still fermenting started at 1.110 gravity and is now at 1.018 and still going.

Coffee wine, tea wine and spiced mead all bottled. The coffee wine finished at 12% and cleared nicely The tea wine at 13.78% also clear Spiced mead at 14% and needs a bit of time to clear. My official taster has declared the spiced mead very sweet but a bit lacking in spice I'm hoping that...

They look good. I have seen a mould for making Nicot cups out of wax that looked very good.

Anyone have experience of both for grafting? What are the pros and cons of each type if any?

Thank you Murray. I'm resigned to losing this one and will see what's there in the spring. Won't be wasting any more time on them other than to maybe pull a frame to see what's what on a warm day before I decide to give any fondant or not.

From what I've read trickling is just as effective and it takes about the same time as vaping plus has the bonus of not requiring as much ppe. I use apiguard on my main colonies but decided to go with strips for convenience in the poly nucs.

I started on commercial kit as that's what my mentor ran so I worked with what he had. Now though it seems hard to get commercial kit at a sensible price so I'm considering changing formats.

Have checked my records. Strips actually went in 28/8/21.

Thanks. I'm fairly resigned to losing this colony but have five other nucs over wintering that had the same treatments so was thinking a spring treatment would be useful for those. Sorry didn't make that clear . Won't use apistan again lesson learned.

Ok so I'm now wondering if an early spring treatment with apivar strips is worth considering since it says it's not temperature dependent?

Oh well. Every day is a school day. Will do better next time.

So if you are saying that apistan now has zero effect why are suppliers still selling this product?

No I didn't do test any of the nucs.

Apistan Apistan strips.

This was a two frame nuc I made up with a virgin queen in June. She was certainly mated and laying well going into winter, however I guess she could have failed over the last couple of months .

My treatment this year for nucs was apistan in September and an OA trickle in december. Girls are flying today. A few more corpses cleared out as well. I put a slab of fondant on top of the frames a while back. Will see if they need another.

Noticed this in front of one of my poly nucs today. They had a trickle treatment 19/12/21 and a slab of fondant popped on. Colony was a good size going into winter with a fresh queen, (Northumberland virgin locally mated in June). Is this anything to be worried about?

Hi all, Could anyone who has experience of importing products to sell on, give me an idea of what the process is? Looking through the internet can be a bit confusing at times and I was hoping someone here would be able to break the process down a bit? From what I can see it's a case of...

Have been working on an old Dartington to modify it to my needs. My plan is to use this one for creating nucs. So first thing I did was to raise the floor to convert it from 14 X 12 to DN4. I then packed the floor with celotex Next up was replacing the rotten roof. Also took the...