Bottling Honey 2021 S5E60
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2021
- This video demonstrates how I bottle my honey in 2021.
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Looks like your operation is starting to grow and that's a good thing. Something you might want to consider so you can save yourself a little bit of money is if your local Walmart has a bakery go ask them to save their 5 gallon buckets for you. You will find they are the same heavy duty buckets you're paying $60 for 6, only you will get them with the lid for a dollar each. Bring them home give them a washing. Most of the time they are frosting or fondant buckets so they are foodgrade and will save yourself a bunch of money. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hey Sam. Thanks for the tip. I have a Walmart a few miles from me. I’ll ask next time I’m in there. Have a nice week.
All looking good. Thanks again for all your video’s.
Hi Kathy. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Nice job!!! Thanks!
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Mmmm honey haha. I like the bottle size options you have this year.
Hey Ronnie, choices choice. lol Is it time to plant my garlic?
@@JeromeBeeFarm Yes choices lol.
October is when I planted mine last year.
Thanks for video like always
Sure thing Dave. Been raining here all week.
Very Nice
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Bottling the years honey is such a satisfying feeling. You’ve had a great year in production, congratulations! I’d love to see your process of rendering the honey cappings. I have a bunch in the freezer, but I don’t know how to melt it in a way that keeps it clean. I would like to use it in my homemade lip balms and such. I’ve only rendered wax for coating new frames, so haven’t been concerned with getting all the bee parts out of it. 🥴. Thanks for sharing your bottling process! 🐝😊
Hi PDaisy. Yes it was a good year considering the rough start and all the rain during the flow. I’ll probably do the wax next month. There’s some good videos in my playlists about wax. The one I did last year was pretty good. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for sharing, I am about to harvest and bottle my first box her in a week or so. This was very helpful
Glad it was helpful. Thanks for stopping in.
For a year filled with "obstacles " you did pretty well. Me on the other hand, out of 9 colonies I had 1 that put honey in 7 frames. Not what I hoped for. Better next year I hope.
Hi Jon. Tough luck. Sometimes the forage and weather conditions and the bees have other ideas. Better luck 🍀 next year. Take care.
Just what I needed in my first year! Thanks❤️✝️
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First year to take honey 🍯. Hoping for about 7 gallons. Thanks for the videos. Very helpful
Hi Fozzie. 7 gallons is not bad for your first year. Good luck.
I enjoyed watching this video. You can almost always learn something from watching how other people do things even if there is probably only so many ways to bottling your honey. I for instance like the way you 'misused' the bucket stand to suit your needs. I always come up with some bungee cord solution, when getting towards the bottom of my bucket, which is always a little unstable, but I think I will build myself a custom made version of your bucket stand for next years harvest. On my pouring bucket I just have a regular honey gate. I think it works fine as I can fast-fill almost all the way up to the neck of the jar, and then close the gate down to get a slow pour for the last bit to get an accurate weight - I have a digital scale under the jar and actually weigh each jar to make sure that my customers get what is on the label, and then usually a few grams extra just to make sure.
Hi JF. I've thought about making a wood stand with a tiltable base that will lock with a wing nut or something for when it gets low and get rid of that rickety metal bracket. I think I've even seen someone had made one and I thought, man, I need that! LOL I picked up laying the bottles on their side for sticking the labels on, that speeds things up a bit. Thanks for stopping in.
I don't know if it has happened to you or not,but this year I harvested some very dark honey. Placing the dark and gold side by side was very interesting. Thanks for all the good information.
Me too! In spring, it was normal honey color. The next extraction gave dark honey a couple of weeks later. Lat3 summer appears to be lighter again. I’m in NW Wisconsin, where anything goes! 😏🐝
Hi Mac. The specific forage is what makes the color. For me the darker honey comes in the fall from golden rod and it smells like stinky socks, but tastes delish. lol. Thanks for stopping by
You guys get a lot more $ for honey than we do in Australia. There are people all over Facebook marketplace here selling honey for $10 to $12 a kilo (almost two pounds).
Interesting what it sells for in different regions/countries. supply demand holds true I guess. I went from $8 to $10 last year and I'm still lower than a lot of folks around me. Thanks for stopping in.
Best tip on honey harvest time this year was to take cling wrap and press it down on the top of your honey in the bucket. Then pinch the middle and pull up quickly up and out of the bucket. There ya go! Bubbles on the surface all gone. Now empty the whole bucket. No foam.
Hey Mark. Someone else mentioned that as well. I think I saw Jeff Horchoff do that a couple years back. I might try it when I get to the last bucket. I'm down to two buckets left I think. Have a nice weekend.
HD-626 is used the same way as your plastic bucket holder is used.
I thought I tried that and it didn’t fit right. Who knows. lol. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
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what faucet do you use?
Here's the one I use with the buckets: amzn.to/3FZiR8V It's bigger than the other ones, but it's still pretty slow if your honey isn't nice and warm. I switched to a bottling tank that has a large dripless spigot and it's super fast. Got it from HillCo.
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Uncapping Tank: amzn.to/2A0Qy7X
Honey Strainer: amzn.to/2LwWElN
Heavy Duty Food Grade Buckets: amzn.to/3k5LhBJ
Plastic Bucket Spigot for Honey: amzn.to/3fPLSqP
5 Gallon Bucket Holder: amzn.to/2PUm6Hx
This is the honey extractor I use. It’s available from Blue Sky Bee Supply: www.blueskybeesupply.com/9-frame-power-radial-extractor-sn-9fm/
Labels & bottles: mannlakeltd.com
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Darren, I find that bottling is one of the easier steps to producing honey. I use the same screen as you and the fine screen is like 650 microns and I get some very fine wax that floats to the top with the air bubbles. I learned from Mr Ed to use Saran Wrap to remove the fine bubbles and wax. Just touch very lightly what’s floated to the top with Saran Wrap and it will stick or cling to the Saran Wrap. Maybe that technique can help you in the future. Are you planning on attending Kamon’s conference in January?
Hey Don. Yeah, I seen that Mr. Ed video some time back. I had forgot about it. I won't be going to the conference. Tennessee is quite a trek for me. I sure would like to go though.
last year, my son harvested some darker honey and bottled in one lb plasic bears ,but the honey turned solid. People are not buying it like the first harvest which was a light yellow orange color and stayed 'liquid'. we understand a high sugar content can make the honey go 'solid' , have you experienced this??
The color comes from the forage of your bees. Usually darker honey comes from fall nectar. There are different sugars in honey and some are more prone to crystallization. Bob Bonnie has a good video on the types of sugar in honey and also temperatures and effects on crystallization. You can heat the bears up with warm air and decrystallize them slowly. I place them on a metal shelf with a small space heater blowing on them and move the bottles around til they are done. Good luck.
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are those buckets food grade??
Yes 👍
@@JeromeBeeFarm Up north we have a Menards store and they sell the 90 ml 5 gal pail for under $4 and the lid is a buck and a half and they are food grade.
The air bubbles according to Mr. Ed are small pieces of wax. To get rid of them he puts a sheet of saran wrap on top of the white foam. Then gently press them together and quickly lifts them off. It works well but you do lose a little honey which you could put on your toast if you wanted. LOL I use a regular 1 1/2" gate valve in a 5 gal pail and it works well. I went into this spring with 4 hives, did some swarm splits and now I'm over 850 lbs with more supers to pull this week. I don't know how to sell that much honey. LOL
@@russellkoopman3004 I don’t think we have Menards here. I’ve heard of them though. That’s quite a honey haul. You must have some really good forage near you. That’s awesome.
@@JeromeBeeFarm We have been in a severe drought all year. Five inches of rain since the first of April. I have heard that a drought will cut honey production so I bought 120 lbs cheap from a friend to sell. Now I don't know where to store it and/or sell it all. I've only mowed my lawn 4 or 5 times all summer. No one else did either so the weeds bloomed and the grass turned brown. Weird!! Also there are no feral bees around or other beeks.
@@russellkoopman3004 that is strange. They found something. Maybe around a lake or stream?
I save all sorts of plastic bottles, dressing, mustard bottles, things like that. To cut down the cost of shipping and buying bottles. A store ask me to bottle and sale them to em. I GO NO! I'am not a bottling company! You bottle it! I played that game once b4 and got stuck with EVERY THING! All i did was added the price of the bottle and they didn't want it 🤬
I usually don’t have any problems selling it myself.
@@JeromeBeeFarm he hee i tried to sell at Kraft foods. but i'am not big enough, and to big for road side sells 🥴can't fine a happy medium