BBKA Mag

[JoJo36]

Sorry forgot to say, I quite like the mag pics!!!!
Admittedly I take more advice from you guys than what’s printed but then what do I know?!
On a different note, I’m in Istanbul at the moment and the chestnut honey is ace!!

[Alfred]

Did you get the wrong bus Jo?

[JoJo36]

ha ha, i've tasted too much 'mad honey'??!!
Tried a few spoons but had no effect as I'm mad already!!
Got lost every day and ended up in honey shops!!!

[AdamD]

Currently in Crete where Cretian Thyme and Pine honey is about 7 Euros for 250g in the tourist shops. Very thick.

[Alfred]

Did you get the wrong bus too Adam?

[MickBBKA]

On a different note, I’m in Istanbul at the moment and the chestnut honey is ace!!

I owned a second home in Turkey for 10 years and got to know a lot of local bar and restaurant owners very well. They would never use Turkish honey as they said it was full of sugar. One of them even had a brother who was a beekeeper.

[Alfred]

I've swapped a jar of our honey for some Polish honey our neighbours brought back
They definitely got the better side of the deal- theirs was tasteless.

[JoJo36]

Mick, funny you say that because the frame of honey at breakfast for anyone to take a chunk out was tested by myself and it really was nothing but a frame of sugar in terms of taste! The only honey (in a shop) I liked was the chestnut honey as it wasn't too sweet and it tasted of treacle??!!
Alfred, my uncle who is hosting a Ukranian family let me taste the honey they brought with them and it was barely sweet with nothing but a dull ish taste to it, mine is definitely better and tastes floral because my bees are trained to go in neighbours gardens to extract the nectar??!!

[MickBBKA]

One thing I very much believe in JoJo is the very obvious aroma and taste of flowers from 'Local Raw Honey'. When I have a stall I always put tasters out for people to try. The comments are always the same no matter where I go. OMG, best honey I have ever tasted, You can smell the flowers, That tastes nothing like the supermarket honey its amazing etc: Now as much as I would like to claim its because my bees make the best honey ever I am humble enough to know that everyone on here will have had the same comments because we don't blend, add sugar and destroy our honey by heat and excessive filtration and all produce amazing honey. For some reason friends, neighbours and family always seem to think they need to bring me a jar of honey back from their holidays and its always crap. We just need the government to get behind local UK produce and promote our fantastic product. By the way, my honey is just ever so slightly better than all of yours, especially Nigels

[JoJo36]