Rendering Beeswax from Honeycomb, Start to Finish

After extracting our honey, this is the process we undertook for the first rendering of our beeswax! We first rinsed the leftover wax from extraction with water (and used that honey rich water to make more mead) and then used the remaining wax to melt on a fire. After this is complete we will repeat the process 2 more times to get nice clear wax ready for use. This was rendered on an open campfire with metal drum, a valve and a few buckets, pretty simple. We use honey from our own apiary to make all our own mead that is used as the base for all our vermouth and apéritifs
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[@oneeyehives]

Extremely beautiful location. For the amount of wax you’re dealing with you might consider doing it with a solar melting setup. Slower obviously but much cleaner no hassle. Basically just build a box with a sloping interior, paint it black, dump the wax in and cover with an old window. Lots of videos out there on it. If you stay with your current method one tip is to put a window screen mesh in the drain pipe on the inside to keep a lot of the slum gum in the drum. Experimenting is usually the most fun of a project 😂 Good luck on all your future endeavors!

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Thanks yet again!! Love the solar melter idea! I'll honestly probably do that once we scale up our wax melting, but for now having an excuse to sit by the fire with something to do is a joy :)

[@patrickmcauley151]

Is your dog a Irish wolf hound

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Yup! 5yrs old, her name is Etta :)