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A big part of that, is understanding medieval beekeeping methods and processes, using "bee logs" and the classic skep hives (inverted woven baskets) or gathering wild, they had little or no way to keep the honey separate from brood, pollen chambers/cells so to extract the most honey for the...

I did live bee removal in so-Cal for many years, this not only brought in a constant supply of new colonies to the apiary, but a large amount of comb and honey that wasn't suitable for bottling or sale, hence I fermented a large amount of it every fall. I would take approx 50-75# honey/comb that...

Hey Ivan, my apiary was on the small side comparatively, only 120-140 colonies, some of my colleague's ran as many as 15,000 (professionals). I started off doing live bee removal in southern CA which not only added to my colonies quickly but also gave me a huge amount of "wall" honey to play...

Oh I just love sticking my foot in it, strait out the gate, seems when I couldn't find my stash of wine making supplies and did a fast cruise through the homebrew section of the general store, I grabbed the wrong type of hydrometer (proofing for hard alcohol ?) So digging through many boxes I...

After pressing a carboy of Juice getting ready to throw the yeast and find that my SG is so high the hydrometer wont even sink to the gage scale ? Any solutions, remedy or standard process for dealing with this ? I contemplated adding distilled water to bring it down to a measurable range but...

Hi, I've done a bit mead myself, and just getting back to keeping bee's again after a 8yr hiatus. I'm not a master, but willing to share what experience I have.

I kept bees for a number of years in So CAL and made a lot of mead, then moved back to Oregon, took a big hit on my bee's (southern bees didn't like northern clime's) just getting re-established with bee's. After being back here a few years found that the neighbors on the ranches/farms around me...