Buzzin Apiaries — Infused Raw Honey

Local raw honey, slow-infused in small batches. One sweet and fiery, one deep and savory.

Colton Rocha takes the same raw, unheated honey his bees make around Gustine and slow-infuses it so the flavor goes all the way through the jar instead of sitting on top. No corn syrup, no flavorings, no shortcuts: just honey and the real ingredient.

Choose your flavor

• Hot Honey: raw honey infused with dried peppers. The heat builds slowly behind the sweetness, so it lifts food instead of burning it. Made for pizza, fried chicken, biscuits, roasted squash, cheese boards and cocktails.
• Black Garlic Honey: raw honey slow-infused with fermented black garlic. Black garlic is garlic aged until it turns soft, dark and mellow, with notes of balsamic, molasses and roasted garlic and none of the raw bite. Garlic and honey together is one of the oldest home remedies in the cupboard, taken by the spoonful through cold season. It is also a secret weapon on steak, pork, salmon, roasted vegetables and goat cheese.

Who this is for

• Home cooks who want a finishing drizzle that does the work for them
• Anyone who keeps hot sauce on the table and wants a cleaner, sweeter option
• Families who keep garlic and honey on hand through cold and flu season
• A local gift that goes with every charcuterie board

How to use

Drizzle to finish, stir into dressings and marinades, or glaze meat in the last minutes of cooking. Take Black Garlic Honey by the spoonful or stir it into warm (not boiling) water or tea.

Details

• Ingredients: raw honey with dried peppers, or raw honey with fermented black garlic
• Store at room temperature. Raw honey may crystallize over time, which is normal. Set the jar in warm water to loosen
• Do not feed honey to infants under one year old

Buzzin Apiaries is run by Colton Rocha in Gustine, California, thirty-five miles from our Modesto store. It started as his high-school 4-H project and has grown to about a thousand hives that pollinate Central Valley orchards and fields.