Bee Raw partners with family-owned apiaries across the country to offer raw, unfiltered, single varietal honey for the American table. And in line with their mission to bring consumers only the finest quality products, Bee Raw is also adding estate-grown loose teas carefully harvested by farmers from around the world, adhering to centuries of tradition. Each Bee Raw tea is crafted with great care, and never blended. Today Founder Zeke Freeman, together with his wife Marissa, proudly partners with beekeepers and tea farmers, marketing Bee Raw products nationwide from their headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. Bee Raw offers honey and tea as nature created it: unaltered and so pleasing to the palate that those who try it will put their processed honey bears and stapled tea bags away for good.
Putting my personal rant aside I was super excited to review Bee Raw Honey. Growing up in Florida I have been pretty limited to my honey flavors. I literally had no idea how many flavors of honey were out there.
Raw single varietal honey collection includes:
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Blueberry Honey,
Maine?A rich, visually
striking, and sturdy, medium amber honey. Strong and sweet, with earthy
components and a playful, buttery-sweet note. -
Buckwheat Honey,
Washington State?A stout, complex
honey comparable to sorghum or molasses. Hints of mossy earth and a
not-so-sweet composition combine to develop a malty flavor with a
pronounced bright finish. -
Orange Blossom
Honey, Florida?Enticing and
surprising, with notes of citrus and tangy rind are playfully intertwined
in a not-too-sweet, captivating finish. -
Sweet Yellow
Clover Honey, Colorado?Yellow Melilot flower adds a wonderful
aroma to this honey, which also boasts an initially delicate, sweet and
buttery taste, followed by warm undertones of cinnamon and nutmeg. -
Wild Black Sage
Honey, California?Sage gets its name from the Latin salvia
(meaning “to heal”). This honey is mild with a mouth-warming
hint of pepper and a smooth, clean finish. -
Wild Raspberry
Honey, Maine?Light yellow in
color and floral with a unique raspberry finish intertwined with the aroma
of warm cocoa butter. -
Basswood Honey,
New York?Light in color,
delicate and mild, featuring warm herbal notes and a clean finish.
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Cranberry Honey,
North Carolina?Smooth, pungent
and mildly tart with a delicate cranberry aroma, complemented by subtle
floral hints and a very light fruit finish. -
Sourwood Honey,
Colorado?Harvested at the
end of the bloom when the nectar is sweetest, this honey is highly floral,
rich and buttery with a maple finish. -
Star Thistle
Honey, Colorado?Thick and creamy
with soft notes of cinnamon and a long, sweet finish.
Let me tell you that they were extremely delicous. The Star Thistle Honey is a much thicker honey than I am personally use to but I loved it. I also felt like the Wild Black Sage was especially full of flavor. I had no idea you could get a bold flavor such as that one in a honey. The Rasberry Honey was absolutely perfect for dipping my chicken fingers (classy I know) in.
The website has so many recipes you can use honey in. From the traditional desserts and beverages to some you might not have thought of like butternut squash, ribs and chicken. So many tasty ones I want to try out.
newly launched estate-grown loose teas have also joined the Bee Raw product
lineup:
- Chamomile Herbal Tea Soothing, sweet and caffeine-free. Made from organically grown Chamomile with notes of fig and honey.
- Mt. Olympus Herbal Tea This national herbal drink of Greece is peppery and delicious. Known for its medicinal benefits to be anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidant, it is truly a gift from the gods.
- Assam Black Tea From the Satrupa Estate in northeastern India, this tea boasts round, sweet and malty flavor that’s the full-bodied base of most Irish breakfast blends and is tasty yet traditional.
- Karigane Kukicha Green Tea Highly prized, yet virtually unknown in the west, this fulfilling, traditional Japanese ?twig tea? is made in the traditional style from Gyokuro green tea stems.
- White Peony White Tea This succulent tea from the northern Fujian Province of China has rich fruit blossom aroma. Made from delicate young leaves, it is gently handled from harvest to cup.
Besides food we also keep honey around as a cough remedy for the kiddos (ages 1+ of course). I think it helps them when they have a mild cough. Big Sis never complains when I ask her to have a spoonful of honey.
I am very excited that I now have a go to website to purchase different flavors of honey. The site offers recipes as well as honey pairings so that you know what they think goes best with the different types of honey. They even pair up their new tea flavors with the different honeys.
The honey jars alone are nice enough to give as gifts but they also sell gift sets. Definitely consider what time of honey you serve your family at home and consider a more natural honey. Bee Raw Honey offers a wide variety of honey goodness. You can keep these on your shelf next to the spices because it is a staple used for cooking as well as for dipping.
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Buy It!
Bee Raw Honey pricing starts at $12 for single honey jars and goes up to $79 for flights; Bee Raw Tea products range from $14 to $85. Combination honey and tea gift sets are also available within these price ranges.
