Greetings

Yesterday I sent out a message about the availability of honey by the bucket. David responded with some additional information that I included below. So far, we have enough response for about three buckets. Hopefully this message will spark your interest and make you think about mead and take some action to gather raw ingredients to do so.

...When I responded yesterday I was out of the office for the day and couldn't give you much of an answer via my blackberry. All our honey is from our own bees. We live in Champlin and have hives here, in the Rush City area and up by our lake home up near Park Rapids. We sell to everyone from our neighbors, homebrew clubs, food coop's, wholesale barrels, and etc. This is a sideline business for us. We had approx. 60 hives this last year and are committed to just under 100 hives for 2009. The honey I sell to the clubs and etc. is clover/ basswood honey (light in color and very tasty). The Honey from our bee yards up by lake place is mostly sun flower which is sold wholesale to our Wisconsin connection who has a direct market for it....

So there you have it direct from the bee keeper. The price is pretty decent at $95 per 5 gallon bucket (60 pounds). Let me know if you want in on this and we will arrange for delivery to a club meeting.

Sincerely,

Rick Oftel BJS

(Brewer, Gentleman, and Sailor)

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