Forest Honey by Edinburgh Honey Co. 400g

Forest Honey - All the goodness of the wilderness.

This beautiful wild honey contains nectar from different plant varieties blooming at the same time. Forest Honey is considered a perfect honey. It has a complex composition consisting of a variety of nutrients and vitamins such as B and C. It is a great source of your 5 a day.

Forest Honey flow is often strong in late wet summers. It may be known generically as "Tree Honey" but also by the name of the particular source plant, "Fir Honey", "Pine Honey", "Lime Tree Honey", "Oak Honey" etc. So that even today many people believe this honey is created from sap secreted directly from the tree itself. This is not the case. Only about 1% of the time do plants exude a honeydew-like substance directly that bees will use, and this is usually as the result of an injury or shock to the plant.

Forest honey is highly appreciated in certain parts of the world by connoisseurs and honey lovers alike for its intense flavor and healthful properties. It is especially well known in European countries like Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Greece, and Turkey

Characteristics of  Forest Honey
Forest honey from different European countries, from Conifers (fir, spruce, pine), and deciduous (mostly different oak species) and Metcalfa pruinosa, share the following characteristics.

Colour: Dark to ruby , honey coloured, sometimes with green fluorescence.
Taste: Intensity: medium, woody and warm. Medium sweetness with weak acidity. No bitterness with a medium aroma. Medium persistence/aftertaste and sometimes astringent.
Aroma: Woody and warm.

About the Producer
We are Marta and Andy, and we are beekeepers form Edinburgh. We specialise in rare, high quality, raw honey, which we source from our own apiaries both in Scotland and Poland. Our beekeeping tradition has started with our grandfather Stan over 60 years ago back in Poland.

We are an independent, family-owned company with 60 years of beekeeping traditions. All of our honey is being sourced in the sustainable and responsible way, both from our own apiaries in Scotland and our families in Poland. We specialize in honey that is hand-packed with recycled materials only and it is 100% plastic free.