This honey is awaiting delivery to a local shop, all correctly labelled and with a lot no. too.
Much of this honey has been left in the combs because it was too thick to extract!
QB has kindly returned it to Red hive as "wet comb" to be licked clean and dry by
those workers who gave me such a bad time. They will transfer it into their winter stores.
Notice the dark colour of the honey compared to the pale gold of the earlier crop at the back.
The dark honey poured thicker as if it contained ling. The taste is much stronger - less delicate
than the lighter coloured. Still both delicious in their own distinctive way.
This year each colony has yielded on average 36kg (73lbs) of surplus honey.
QB makes sure each colony has a full super + whatever is stored in the brood nest.
To ensure there are enough stores to last an unusually long winter and late spring I am now
about to feed them 2:1 sugar syrup as well. Yes "Belt & braces"!!
QB ZZZ
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