todays news

[drumgerry]

Nice extractor! My bees are currently self-extracting each cell of honey and consuming it.

ps - I have the same mash tun as you! Brewing a hefe in the next couple of weeks.

[Wraith]

Just done 22 gallon on Sunday and need to brew again next weekend. I'm having difficulties with mine not wanting to stay in the hives and not capping the supers

[drumgerry]

That's quite a brew length! (oo er) Just a cornys-worth for me. Takes me long enough to get through that. All thoughts of swarming I think are on the back burner with mine and looking them today a couple of colonies might even need fed if the weather doesn't pick up.

[Wraith]

That was 4 brews in 13hrs all seperate 25l batches

[drumgerry]

Your system must be pretty slick - it takes me most of a day to do one batch!

[Wraith]

Are you on www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk by any chance?

[drumgerry]

Used to post a little on jimsbeerkit but I think I may be a lurking member of a few of the forums.

[Wraith]

Here's a link to the brewday thread http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/vi...p?f=21&t=26005

[Jon]

Put another 10 cells into apideas this morning.
I checked grafts I did on Thursday into two cell raisers and there are a good number started, over 25, maybe a few more.

I did another 45 grafts this afternoon in the rain into another two colonies so hopefully will get a few more started from these.

We have 44 apideas with virgin queens set out on stands at the association site and another 10 with cells due to hatch on Monday.

apideas-minnowburn.jpg

These are all in the shade of a huge lime tree.

Edit
One of the group members put more photos on Flic.kr

http://flic.kr/p/cfaNB1

http://flic.kr/p/cfah8j

http://flic.kr/p/cf9QQq

Only one of those apideas is mine and that has the virgin which I retrieved from a cell raiser colony after it pulled down 7 cells from a cell bar. I have 20 of my own apideas set out in my garden and at my allotment.
My garden is 1.3 miles from the drone colonies at the association site and 2.6 miles from the allotment where I have 9 more colonies producing drones. Would be great to get an area of a few square miles completely saturated with AMM drones.

[Neils]

Another carrier bag of sugar bought as we're back to solid rain again and there's another two hives now starting to run out of food. The local shopkeepers think I'm mad.