Motivations

• Beekeeping as a craft/hobby seems objectively fun and rewarding
• Low overlap of tech-savvy people with population of beekeepers means much opportunity for invention and improvement
• As a non-zero-sum activity, the community tends to be welcoming, helpful and positive
• Personal interest in bees from a sci-fi and machine learning …

Pre-2022 shooting

A concise history of my shooting 'career' up to this point:

I shot air and free pistol for USMA from 2012-2015, my sophomore-senior years, going to nationals twice and making All-American in both air and free. My personal best was 553, I think, for air. After graduating in …

The second thing I brewed was some cyser. I apparently did not write down many details. I remember I used Lalvin D47, orange blossom honey, yeast nutrient, and some store-bought apple juice to make one gallon of the stuff. I backsweetened about the same amount (30g) as the first mead …

I started brewing with mead. I made a single gallon batch of some 'show mead', which is to say it had few embellishments. A proof of concept, really. It turned out really well and I took some to Defcon 2022.

Ingredients:

• 1.1kg orange blossom honey, plus 30g to backsweeten …