Mead Making Recipe Words by Gavin Smith Honey mixed with hot water ( not boiling) is the base sugar. On its own it develops a limited mead. Proportions develop by measuring the specific gravity of your mixed base with your hydrometer. Start with three litres and one kilo honey. Measure and decide what wine you prefer….

Beeing Australian Words by Gavin Smith Beeing Australian is a bit like our human population, diverse in many aspects but with one difference, most of our bees have been here for many millennia possibly 120,000,000. Bees evolved from wasps. Wasps are carnivores. As flowers developed, wasps found pollen protein to be as nutritious as their…