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That's an excellent method! It just requires capturing all the queens and removing any queens and queen cells. Spring swarms and supersedure do something similar although not of a very controllable length.

I'm not worried about the amount of honey.

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It can be done with push in cages to trap the queen inside the hive. Because there's still a queen they won't start new cells. Because she's limited to a very small area the brood break is almost complete. I think a two week break is enough. The national honey show had a great video explaining this method. Apparently commercial beekeepers are going that route now that varroa treatments are becoming less effective.

That's likely to be an even bigger win for commercial guys beyond suppressing varroa. It's startling how quick a hive stacks up resources when there's no brood present to tend.

They've measured that too. Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJlgzcQWAg

It's an hour long and very informative. The research seems well backed up.

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