How Much Heather Honey Can I Extract Using a Hydropress? Ep. 260.

What's the best way to extract thick, heather honey from my frames? Radial spinning extractors don't work, and traditional presses waste so much honey. I'm trying out a Hydropress, using water pressure to extract 50kg of Scottish Highland Heather Honey. Will it work? Find out as I show the entire process, from taking the honey supers, building the hydropress, extracting honey, filtering, jarring and labelling, ready to sell! Chapters. 00:00 Introduction. 00:19 Introduction to extracting honey. 01:33 Removing bees from supers. 02:44 Taking honey supers from hives. 10:49 Weighing the honey supers. 11:22 Checking the water content of honey. 13:14 How a Hydropress extracts honey. 14:50 Explaining the honey extraction process. 17:47 Uncapping the frames. 21:34 Hydropress doing its job. 22:36 Loading the Hydropress. 23:47 Using the Hydropress to extract honey. 26:15 The total weight of honey I extracted. 27:00 Cleaning the Hydropress. 27:10 Using the beeswax. 32:00 Giving bees their used frames back. 36:13 Jarring the honey. 38:34 Why heather honey is so thick. 39:10 Why our honey is extra special. 40:59 How many jars of honey did I make? 42:00 Labelling the honey. 44:07 How to buy our honey. 👇🏻 SUPPORT US 👇🏻 🐝 Adopt one of our beehives! 👇🏻 https://www.foxesafloat.com/product-page/adopt-a-beehive 💷 Support us using Paypal 👇🏻 https://paypal.me/foxesafloat 🛒 Buy something from our Amazon Wish List 👇🏻 https://amzn.to/3mS20Mf 🎁 Buy a voucher where we can buy beekeeping equipment (use our email as the recipient [email protected]). 👇🏻 https://www.thorne.co.uk/books-education-gifts/gift-vouchers/voucher-electronic.html 📹 Get a personal video message 👉🏻 https://v.cameo.com/e/m4wQ4N2khFb 📺 Get EXCLUSIVE content as a Patreon or YouTube Member: YouTube 👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkaFsF378jNuL2xmZMH9knQ/join Patreon 👉🏻 https://www.patreon.com/foxesafloat 👇🏻 OUR SOCIAL MEDIA 👇🏻 X (formally Twitter). http://www.twitter.com/foxesafloat Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/foxesafloat Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/foxesafloat Threads.https://www.threads.net/foxesafloat TikTok. TikTok.com/@foxesafloat Catch-up on all of our vlogs, in order, from the beginning here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcS0xjJs-N1B0wlKhMBs6RdWnJNoKLO4B 🛒 Foxes Afloat Merchandise: Grab yourself a Foxes Afloat mug or t-shirt from our online store: https://foxesafloat.myspreadshop.co.uk Colin has a gallery where you can browse and buy his photographs in a digital image format or a framed print: https://www.foxesafloat.com/gallery. Download the music from our vlogs at; Artlist: https://artlist.io/Colin-345821 Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/x4gb05/ 'Sunny Fruit' by Beat Blitz. 'Distant' by Woolfson. 'Share it with the World' by Dirty Front Yards. 'Adrenaline' by Balloon Planet. 'Sleeper Valley' by Ardie Son. 'Human' by Rex Banner. 'Are You Ready?' by Castle Heist. 'Winter Magic' by Aves. 'Circle of Life' by Letra. 'Taito' by Magiksolo. 'Hit the Road' by Veshza. 'Bluebell' by Woolfson. 'Better' by Dizzy. 'Opening Presents' by Borrtex. 'Jive Joint' by Jurgen Brischar. #honey #bees #hydropress