I keep bees, and they keep me.

I picked up a nuc from a local bee maker a year and a half ago with great dreams of producing my own honey for meads and wheat beers.  Honey, of course, being the most expensibe fermentable on the market.  And I've mostly just let the Bees be since then.  Deciding it was better to let them get established.  Well, I finally took a frame from them, that yielded me a quart of honey, and I was ecstatic.  Meanwhile, I've spent the last year contemplating the keeping of bees and the idea of letting them keep them selves and I've decided that while bad for production, I'm going to be switching to top bar hives and start practicing the organic small cell style of keeping.  Thus having a hobby that takes less time out of my week and is all around better for my thousands of little friends.  I really love the bees, I think I could have hundreds of hives and still want more.  Oh and, Bee Suits are for chumps. 

In other news, now that the holidays are over and I've gotten a shipping issue sorted out, there's going to be much goings on in the next few weeks at the brewery.