Did your jar of honey crystallize? This is totally normal, and natural. Crystallized honey is just as edible and delicious as liquid honey, but if you don’t like the texture of crystallized honey, it is quite simple to soften honey by adding heat. Heating honey will liquefy crystallized honey. But bee careful. If you overheat
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Plus Answers to all Your Honeycomb Questions When people ask if honeycomb is edible, it’s often the wax they’re concerned with. We know honey is edible. But is honeycomb edible? The answer is also yes. Honeycomb is nature’s great delicacy. It is perfectly safe (and delicious) to consume both the honey and the waxy hexagonal
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Summer is here and our bee hives and bee charmer hive are both abuzz with activity. Here’s an update on what we’ve been up to at Asheville Bee Charmer. Honey + Hops = Delightful Brews The hive teamed up with two local breweries this summer to create some unique honey beers. Catawba Brewing, on the
One day, a man named Doug Whitley finished reading an article about Asheville Bee Charmer in Our State Magazine and called our shop. He wanted to know if we named our honey store after a scene from the movie Fried Green Tomatoes. The truth is–we did. Our name, Asheville Bee Charmer, was inspired by a
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The short and sweet answer to what makes honey taste the way it does is that honey contains sugar that comes from nectar. No, not that stuff they call the nectar of the gods—it’s the nectar of the plants. Bees gather nectar from plants for their food supply and then transform that nectar into sweet
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