Bee Q&A: What do bees do?
Starting with the easy ones here. This is one of our most common questions we get asked. We all know bees are important, but what do they do?
Got any bee questions? Drop us a message 🐝❤️
#beekeeping #WorldBeeDay #honey #honeybees #beekeeper #wales #mead
Rescue some bees with us!
It's Swarming season! A combination of a cold and wet start to spring, combined with the occasional hot day has the bees feeling pent up, raising lots of new queens and getting ready to swarm. As usual at this time of the year, Matt is out catching wild swarms!
#WorldBeeDay #beerescue
🌍 Happy Earth Day! Today seems like a great day to re-introduce our special edition Traditional Mead we brewed in Collaboration with Bees for Development charity in Monmouth! This delicious Mead is brewed to the exact same recipe as our (Golden Fork Award winning 😏) Traditional Mead, but uses 100% Zambian forest honey! Though the recipe is the same, it has got a completely different flavour, as you'd expect from such a unique honey!
🧀 This mead pairs fantastically well with smoked cheese, and cooked fruit desserts 👌
We launched this in November to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bees For Development, and the fantastic work they do.
You can pick up a bottle on our website shop here: https://hivemindmead.com/collections/mead/products/zambian-honey-mead
🌍 Happy Earth Day! Today seems like a great day to re-introduce our special edition Traditional Mead we brewed in Collaboration with Bees for Development charity in Monmouth! This delicious Mead is brewed to the exact same recipe as our (Golden Fork Award winning 😏) Traditional Mead, but uses 100% Zambian forest honey! Though the recipe is the same, it has got a completely different flavour, as you'd expect from such a unique honey!
🧀 This mead pairs fantastically well with smoked cheese, and cooked fruit desserts 👌
We launched this in November to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bees For Development, and the fantastic work they do.
You can pick up a bottle on our website shop here: https://hivemindmead.com/collections/mead/products/zambian-honey-mead
Come and do our post winter beekeeping check with us! It's been a long winter (for everyone) so it's important to check the bees before spring kicks off properly, which we all hope will be soon 🤞
Join Matt, co-founder and chief beekeeper, as he talks through the steps of checking one of our hives. Spring video coming soon!
#beekeeping #honeybees #bees #beekeepinguk #mead
We've had an awesome year of taproom events and courses at our meadery in Caldicot!
It's been amazing welcoming so many of you here for our beekeeping and mead making courses, and then hundreds for our monthly taproom parties! People have come from all corners of the UK (including the Shetland Isles) and even as far away as the US. Here's a short video made for Food Tourism Wales, shot by COPA Cymru that really captures our monthly courses and taproom parties.
We're open every Friday until Christmas, and we've got one last end-of-the-month party this Saturday and then a Medieval Christmas Carol concert on the 22nd of December. The taproom is then closed until the last Saturday of March 🥲
Thanks for all the good times this year, looking forward to many more!
Event tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/wyevalleymeadery?
🐝🎈🐝🎈Happy World Bee Day! 🐝🎈🐝🎈
Today the bees are celebrating World Bee Day and the birth of a new Queen!
#worldbeeday
