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
“My honey has crystallized! What do I do?” The simple answer is that heat will melt crystallized honey. But if you want to preserve the best qualities of that raw honey, you must melt it slowly in a glass jar using low, indirect, constant heat for as long as the honey takes to decrystallize. We
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If you’re wondering about honey crystallization then start here. Honey is a supersaturated sugar solution made up of water and a mix of sugars—mostly glucose and fructose. Over time, the sugar begins to “precipitate out” of the solution, which means the water separates from the glucose, causing the sugar to take crystal form. When honey
Just as you are pulling your heavy coats out of storage and stocking up on firewood and tea bags, bees and beekeepers are spending the fall preparing for winter in their own special ways. Here in Western North Carolina, we are busy making sure our hives are ready for winter, though our beekeeper friends in
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