Making sugar syrup to feed your bees....20 gallons at a time.

Your beekeeping enterprise is expanding. Mixing sugar syrup to feed bees in 5 gallon pails is no longer working. Yet you aren’t ready to buy it by the tanker load. This is a relatively simple way to mix 20 gallon batches utilizing a piece of equipment you may already own….and if you don’t, you probably should.

[@martinplamondon7303]

could you clarify the amount of water to pounds of sugar ?

[@boogerhillbee]

To make sugar syrup in my twenty five gallon bottling tank:
For 1:1 I heat 12 gallons of water to about 150 degrees F and stir in 100lbs of sugar.
For 2:1 I heat 9 gallons of water to 160+ and stir in 150lbs of sugar.