Bottling Bulk Honey

Bottling the honey took longer than extracting the honey from the hives! It was a learning curve and I have a few tips. The best tip is to heat the honey to 60 °C. Otherwise the honey will take forever to flow through the filter material.  Muslin was used as the filter material. Before heating the honey it took about 15 minutes for each bottle to fill, after heating only 20 seconds! The photo shows the final product. I bought the bottles at Cospak. They have all sorts of bottles, jars and containers, normally in bulk supply only. The 20L white container with honey gate I purchased from Hollander Imports for about $29 ... so who's going to eat the honey?

Honey Extraction Time!

Finally the Cambridge Division & Co are delivering some produce. HONEY After a few hours (including several stings) we extracted about 18kg of the sweet goodness from 13 frames. The video above shows the wax being scraped off to allow the honey to be spun out of the frame. The pictures below highlight the Super and Frames and also the excess of wax & honey due to a healthy hive.