🌡️ Warming Honey
Background: Bottling cold or even worse crystalizing honey is not much fun. Messy and time-consuming bottles that come out cloudy make the head beekeeper a little angry, and angry gals are never a good thing when dealing with bees. Our solution was to purchase a bottling tank. We had our eye on a Maxant Tank (MODEL 600-2 200# or 16 gallons) for a while now and decided to bite the $1,350 bullet plus another $100 for the No-Drip Valve. This is a fine piece of equipment that will last us a lifetime, and solve our crystallizing honey problem by being able to bottle on demand. The trouble is these are very difficult to come by these days. We tried a couple of dealers hoping that Rossmann Apiaries would help cut back on shipping costs without any luck. We even called up to Maxant and they are having all kinds of supply chain issues. The bottom line is they can’t get the components needed to build the tanks and are sporting a 3 month lead time., (Thanks COVID). By no means a kno...