Overwintering - too much food?

[Jon]

MBC
I have nothing against syrup.
I feed a couple of hundred litres of it every autumn.
The problem is feeding too much of it at the wrong time, ie too early.

I also like to have a few boxes of fondant handy.

[walkhighlands]

OK many thanks for all the advice.

We didn't have any spare drawn brood empty frames in the other hives (have now removed the feed from the other hive and nuc which otherwise were going the same way).

Have put the drawn super below the brood box which is rammed with stores. The idea was that the bees prefer the brood below the stores - but given the weight making us clumsy with the process, probably we should have just put the super on top. Fingers crossed the queen didn't get squished!!! At least now there are plenty of cells for her to lay in if needed.

[Jon]

That should sort the problem out.
You will likely have to remove frames of sugar in the Spring before you put supers on top to stop it ending up in your honey but you can cross that bridge when you come to it.