We just harvested our first two hives ever, and were fortunate to get 170 lbs of honey.  As first time amateurs, we are now faced with what to do with all that honey.  We just don't have that many friends for Christmas presents.  I'm thinking of the Lake Wobegone joke... you have to lock your car in the summer, or you come back to find the rear seat full of zucchini.

So, rather than accosting strangers on the street at random, we need to figure out how to store it.  We live in Interior Alaska, and storing it in an outdoor shed seems to fulfill the criteria of storage below 50 degrees F, but I am worried about it freezing and cracking the jars and containers.  Testing a container in an ordinary freezer gives a nearly solid lump, but that is not nearly as cold as our midwinter.  Anyone experienced with storing in really cold weather?  

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