Big Island Bees — Organic Hawaiian Honey (9 oz jar)

Single-flower raw Hawaiian honey, unheated and unfiltered, from a fourth-generation beekeeping family.

Most honey is a blend. Big Island Bees moves their hives so each harvest comes from one bloom, and the difference is obvious in the jar: the lehua is white and smoothly crystallized, the macadamia is dark amber and liquid, the wilelaiki is light and faintly spicy. None of it is heated or filtered, so the pollen, enzymes and aroma are intact, and the bees are kept without chemicals, miticides or artificial feed. The lehua and wilelaiki honeys are certified organic.

Who this is for

• Anyone who wants to taste what a single flower does to honey
• Raw honey for tea, toast, cheese boards and yogurt
• A gift that says Hawaii without being a trinket
• Fans of creamed honey, which the lehua naturally is

Details

• Ohia Lehua Blossom: white, smoothly crystallized, delicate. Certified organic, two-time Good Food Award winner
• Wilelaiki Blossom: from Hawaiian Christmas berry, light amber with a subtle spicy note. Certified organic
• Macadamia Nut Blossom: dark amber, floral and nutty, smooth and liquid
• Lehua and Cinnamon: organic lehua blended with organic Hawaiian cinnamon, fragrant and warm
• Lehua and Vanilla Bean: lehua with pure ground vanilla bean, sweet and creamy
• Hawaiian Chili Pepper: organic wilelaiki infused with Hawaiian chili, sweet then hot
• Island Spice: wilelaiki with cinnamon, ginger and other island spices
• 9 oz glass jar. Do not feed honey to infants under one year old

Big Island Bees is run by Garnett and Whendi Puett on the Big Island of Hawaii. Garnett is a fourth-generation beekeeper, and the family has kept bees there since the 1970s.