Looking for Raw Honeycomb

mahoganygas

Hi,

Does anybody know where I could find raw honeycomb? I tried a couple of organic food shops at the weekend but they didn't know where to find it.

Ideally just honeycomb, and not a jar of honey with a piece of comb inside.

Cheers.

Kovu

You could possibly try asking/moving this thread over to us in the Beekeeping forum

Dizzyblonde

I've moved this into the Beekeeping forum, you're much more likely to get helpful replies here than in food & Drink

fits

I'm not sure what this 'raw' business is. Honeycomb cant be anything else but raw. Its a bad time of year to be looking for it as last summer was poor enough and this summer's honey wont be available for another while.

mahoganygas

fits wrote: »

I'm not sure what this 'raw' business is. Honeycomb cant be anything else but raw. Its a bad time of year to be looking for it as last summer was poor enough and this summer's honey wont be available for another while.

Thanks - I wasn't quite sure what that correct term was. I wanted to distinguish between honeycomb the confectionery, and honeycomb from a hive.

Any tips on where to source it later in the year? Do shops usually sell it or should I look at farms?

Thanks.

fits

Some shops will stock it direct from beekeepers. Its been in short supply in recent years. I have two beekeepers in family and I am buying non Irish honey at the moment. Best time to look for honeycomb is in early autumn.

frankston

fits wrote: »

Some shops will stock it direct from beekeepers. Its been in short supply in recent years. I have two beekeepers in family and I am buying non Irish honey at the moment. Best time to look for honeycomb is in early autumn.

Where are you? I have two supers full of honey! : - )

Im in south east Clare

fits

I'm in the south east. Maybe I need to look outside of family (or get my own hives)

bpmurray

This is probably a good place to ask. However, there's almost certainly a beekeepers association near you, and that's where you'll get it if there's any available.

mahoganygas

I managed to pick some up on amazon.
It came from a UK supplier.

Hopefully I can find a local supplier later in the summer.

bpmurray

The bees are loading up on Rapeseed now, so you should be able to find some of that. Note that it crystallises really quickly so you'll only have a few days to eat it.

Maeve Honey

mahoganygas wrote: »

I managed to pick some up on amazon.
It came from a UK supplier.

Hopefully I can find a local supplier later in the summer.

I can help if you want Irish cut-comb honey. I do both the normal stuff (where you give the bees a sheet of very thin wax foundation to start with) and the supreme foundation-less, where the bees make (sometimes) an unbelievably tenuous wax throughout. Based in Athlone, but happy to post and occasionally in Dublin on certain routes.

I really enjoy the challenge of it. To make great comb honey you have to run extremely strong, healthy and tight hives - the same conditions that give an elevated risk of losing the colony by swarming.

Effects

They also sell it in Fallon and Byrne in Dublin.