Making Sugar Syrup ... My Recipe ... What's Yours?

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JudyM

July 09, 2011, 01:40:15 PM
With the high cost of sugar, I was wondering how everyone is making their sugar syrup.  The following is our recipe for one gallon:
7  pounds sugar ... 8 cups water ... bring to boil until clear ... let sit on stove until boiling stops ... when cool, pour into a one gallon container. 

sc-bee

#1
July 09, 2011, 01:56:06 PM
1:1 "a pints a pound the world around" 5 pints water 5 pounds of sugar. Any other ratio from there!
John 3:16

Mike Tuggle

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July 09, 2011, 05:13:21 PM Last Edit: July 09, 2011, 08:14:44 PM by Mike Tuggle
I guess I haven't been scientific enough.  I never really did anything special to make my syrup and the bees didn't mind.

I have always poured a 5 pound bag of sugar into a clean gallon "mayo" jar.  Then, I boil some water and pour it in and stir -- I just make sure that it is filled to or slightly above the shoulder of the jar.  I stir again in case any sugar remains on the bottom of the jar.  It usually all goes into solution.

Mike

Kathyp

#3
July 09, 2011, 05:27:48 PM
i dump a bunch of sugar in until it looks full enough then use hot tap water.  used to boil water, but found the hot tap works fine for 1:1.  thicker stuff for fall might require some boiled water.
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Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

Finski

#4
July 09, 2011, 07:40:09 PM
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To swarms I feed 20% sugar water

Special note: don't drip it every where, oherwise wife will tell you her recipe
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Language barrier NOT included

Bee-Bop

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July 09, 2011, 09:55:39 PM
Quote from: Finski on July 09, 2011, 07:40:09 PM
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Special note: don't drip it every where, oherwise wife will tell you her recipe

First lesson I learned about feeding bees syrup.

NO SUGAR IN THE HOUSE !!!

And I don't care how good you clean up, wife will still find sticky.

Bee-Bop
" If Your not part of the genetic solution of breeding mite-free bees, then You're part of the problem "

FRAMEshift

#6
July 09, 2011, 10:30:17 PM Last Edit: July 09, 2011, 11:00:10 PM by FRAMEshift
Yes, I also make my sugar outside.  :-D  

I run the tap water until it's hot, then fill a 2 gallon metal pot.  I place this on a hot plate (outside) and bring it to a boil.  I pour the boiling water into a food grade plastic 5 gallon bucket, and then immediately dump in a 25 lb bag of sugar.  Stir for about 30 seconds until the solution is clear.  Let it cool and add 4 tablespoons ACV (apple cider vinegar).  

This gives you 3.7 gallons of a 3:2 sugar syrup.  It has never gone bad on me.  I have let it sit out in the sun for 3 months in 90 degree temperatures and the bees still take it like crazy.  I don't know at this point if the ACV is necessary for the long shelf life of this solution.   I am conducting a little experiment now with identical sugar samples, one with ACV and the other without.  We'll see if the ACV really makes a difference.

I use this 3:2 mix all year.  If someone has any evidence that 1:1 is really more stimulative for comb building or brood build, I'd like to hear it.  I have not yet talked to  anyone who has actually done a controlled study to see if 1:1 is better.  I know that 3:2 is stable and 1:1 grows bacteria.  Since I like to use the syrup "as needed" I can't plan exactly how much I will need.  So I like to make sugar that I can store for as long as necessary.
"You never can tell with bees."  --  Winnie-the-Pooh

Boom Buzz

#7
July 10, 2011, 12:39:11 AM
I don't make in large quantities, but here is my recipe

Boil four cups of water
pour into bowl
add 6 cups of sugar
Stir until dissolved

Makes a 3:2 mix and the bees love it...

John

PeeVee

#8
July 10, 2011, 08:36:46 AM
A couple years ago I saw a video (I don't remember the Gentleman's name) where the presenter put 5 lbs. of sugar in a 1 gal. milk jug, filled the rest of the way with water, capped, and shook until dissolved. Seems to work for me too.
-Paul VanSlyke - Cheers from Deposit,NY

hardwood

#9
July 10, 2011, 12:44:58 PM
Shovel enough sugar into a 270gal tote until it's a little more than half way full. Fill tote with water and mix with a paddle attachment and a 1/2" drill for about an hour.

Scott
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Wits End

#10
July 10, 2011, 02:01:38 PM
8 cups of water and 2 vitamin C tablets. bring to boil add 9 cups sugar stir till clear turn off fire let cool and add a shot of apple cider vinegar. YUMMMMMMY!
makes 1 gallon.
Jeff and Kellie Houston
Wits End Blueberry and Bee Farm
Greenwood Mississippi

Finski

#11
July 10, 2011, 05:16:22 PM
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From British foorum I got a valuable advice to mix syrup with old loundry machine.
Works fine.
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Language barrier NOT included

G3farms

#12
July 10, 2011, 05:33:47 PM
Harwood, you need to try mixing with a trolling motor, turn it on and walk away for about 30 minutes or so.
those hot bees will have you steppin and a fetchin like your heads on fire and your keister is a catchin!!!

Bees will be bees and do as they please!

hardwood

#13
July 10, 2011, 07:26:01 PM
G3, I've been wanting to use a trolling motor but can't bring myself to take it off the boat just yet! I made a bracket for the drill...just turn it on and walk away.

Scott
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

RangerBrad

#14
July 10, 2011, 09:57:38 PM
I buy the 5 lb bags at aldi's or wal mart. boil a gal. of water take it off the burner stir in 15 lb of sugar till clear. It makes 2 gal of heavy syrup fill pails and I'm done. Brad
If the only dog you can here in the hunt is yours, your probaly missing the best part of the chase.

VolunteerK9

#15
July 10, 2011, 10:57:43 PM
Fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of sugar and top off with water. Nothing overly complicated for me
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