Powdered corn sugar is used for home beer brewing. It would seem that you
might be able to get it in volume and eliminate the need for heated storage.
Don't know that it will save you any money over sucrose, but might be worth
looking into.
 
 
At 08:24 AM 6/21/96 -0400, you wrote:
>For the past several years I have been making my sugar syrup on a weight
>basis and it seems to work well. Some formulas for volume adjust the volume
>of water slightly above the equivalent volume of sugar to get a 1:1 ratio in
>weight.
>
>Our bee association (WCBA) no longer gets a good pricing deal on sugar so we
>are looking at karo syrup but have to get such large volumes and have to
>store  it warm
>that it looks as though we will need heated stainless steel containers in the
>2000 gallon range.
>
>Anybody have a good piece of information on corn syrups and bees,or on proper
>storage.
>
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