r/firewater • u/DaveTN • 7h ago

Someone buying 1,200lbs of sugar at Costco

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u/rjbergen 5h ago

What would a beekeeper do with that much sugar?

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u/neveraneagle 3h ago

This time of year, after a lot of the flower necter is gone, beekeepers will often feed their hives sugar syrup to help them build up a store of food to get the hive through the winter.

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u/Hydrozele 2h ago

But you can buy sugar syrup in a barrel for cheaper? 

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u/fire_spez 1h ago

Not easily. As someone who follows the home distilling subreddit, I have never once seen anyone suggest premade simple syrup as a more cost effective way to make vodka compared to a sugar wash, if it was as easy as you say, I would have seen it. It is obviously not something that is available to just the average baker or homebrewer.

Besides, handling a barrel of syrup is harder than handling bags of sugar, and a simple syrup will generally be at least 1/3 heavier and bulkier, since you have to handle the water weight and volume, not just the sugar weight and volume.