Hive & Keeper

All our honeys are raw and keep all their pollen - in one of our jars they’ll be nearly 2 MILLION pollen grains!  70 TIMES MORE than in a jar from a supermarket which fine filter theirs.

Big brands source their honey from all over the world in a complex supply chain. it makes it very difficult for them to know if the honey is pure. Many brands fail authenticity tests with added syrups found.

Hive & Keeper only buys from small scale British beekeepers we have visited and collected honey from. We write the beekeeper's name, place, harvest date and how many jars of that honey the bees made on every jar.

Raw honey has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties which makes it good for coughs and colds

Raw honey hasn't been pasteurised so all of its enzymes and other active ingredients are intact

The complex sugars in raw honey make it a good prebiotic which, combined with a probiotic yoghurt makes a very healthy breakfast.

Raw honey has a lower Glycemic Index (GI than refined sugar which means its energy is released more slowly and give us energy for longer

Honey is twice as sweeet as refined sugar so you can cut your sugar intake by half for the same effect

They say there's over a million visits to flowers to make enough honey to fill one of our jars - which explains why it's just impossible for bees to get the same mix of a million ever again!

Bees visit different flowers depending on what the hive needs - the eggs, larvae and young bees all need different pollens and proteins to help them grow.

Then of course it depends on the flowers that are out and have pollen and nectar for the bees.

We curate our honeys to showcases the range of flavours, colours and textures.

It's important to us that you get to taste and experience the uniqueness of each honey as they're like snapshots in time, capturing the flowers, weather, landscape and bees that made them at that particular moment..

Not only does the honey have a flavour note to it - it also has a strength of flavour. We have tasted each of our honeys and describe it as being either milder or stronger than the medium.

To help you decide which would be best for you:

• Our milder honeys are gentler, less complex - a good background sweetener that won't change the drink's flavour.
• Our medium honeys are rounded, with character but not assertive.
• Our stronger honeys are more complex, with flavours that develop and last a long time in your mouth.

All this variety means that there are a lot of honeys to choose from so to help you further we've told you which honey we'd recommend for:

• Porridge
• Toast
• Yoghurt
• Sweetening drinks
• Honey sandwiches
• Recipes that need a good honey
• Or just eating by the spoonful!

Raw honey is as good for you when it has crystalised honey is it is when it's still runny.

One of the ways honey changes is by crystalising. This is a normal process and a sign of the honey’s purity as the glucose in honey starts to knit together around the pollen grains in the honey.

A honey's glucose content will depend on the flowers the bees have visited to make it - if they’ve been visiting the bright yellow oil seed rape fields it will crystalise very quickly, almost within days as it's a high-glucose nectar.

Glucose needs pollen grains to knit around and crystalise so supermarket honeys have been pressure filtered to take as much pollen out as possible, and then pasteurised to kill the yeasts and enzyme activity to keep the honey runny and stable for as long as possible.

But we love how honey changes over time and embrace every honey’s unique character which is why we simply jar it and leave it and let you enjoy it in all its natural glory!

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