Buying honey in bulk

Bhima

Anyone know where the best place is to get 50kg+ of honey? Preferably near Manchester...?

giant_man

That depends if you want genuine honey or crap which will be a mixture of god knows what. The best thing to do is look up a local beekeeper who will stock you with the best kind of honey ie from one UK source. Hope this helps.

http://www.britishbee.org.uk/local_associations.php

fungus_the_muffin_man

You could always start your own colony. Bees are having a rough time at present so the more of us who have them the better the chances of them surviving. If I had a house and didn't live in a flat I'd look at having my own.

Costco do bulk and they certainately sell honey

don_don

Have you got half a ton of drugs to shift or something??? :shock:

Not sure smothering it in honey is going to put off the sniffer dogs....

Bhima

giant mancp wrote:

That depends if you want genuine honey or crap which will be a mixture of god knows what.

Could you elaborate on that?

I stick it in a squeezy bottle and take it out cycling, as it's a good alternative to energy gels. In fact, the combination of Fructose/Glucose is ideal. Would "crap" honey compromise this in any way, or is the better stuff just about the taste/quality of the flowers/bees/etc/etc...?

fungus_the_muffin_man

ope you've got a good dentist

It seems that there is a bad side to honey so sourcing locally could be in your best interest

http://www.slashfood.com/2009/01/06/the-honey-industrys-shady-side/

Aggieboy

Bhima wrote:

Anyone know where the best place is to get 50kg+ of honey? Preferably near Manchester...?

Manchester prison.

fungus_the_muffin_man

Aggieboy wrote:

Bhima wrote:

Anyone know where the best place is to get 50kg+ of honey? Preferably near Manchester...?

Manchester prison.

You've been strangeways before then

Anonymous

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

You really make me laugh sometimes, 50 kilos of honey, hee hee hee.

You'll be buzzing after that lot....

chriskempton

I keep a hive in my dining room. made a small "bee flap" at the top of one of the windows so they come and go as they please. When I need some, I just help myself with some rubber gloves on and never run out.

PBo

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

You really make me laugh sometimes, 50 kilos of honey, hee hee hee.

You'll be buzzing after that lot....

[bloke down the pub said] Apparently honey doesn't go off - some was recovered from a pharaoh's tomb and was still edible....[/bloke down the pub said]

Bhima

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

Honey doesn't go "off". Ever.

markos1963

Contact your local catering supplies factor, when I worked in the food processing industry we used honey in 20kg tubs. I would think that it would be quite expensive given the increase in price of the stuff recently(perhaps they'll give you a good price on a tonne of bananas as well)

chriskempton

....and a super tanker of natural yoghurt.....

giant_man

Bhima wrote:

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

Honey doesn't go "off". Ever.

Very true - if it does crystalise, you just heat in a saucepan and it's fine again. It usually comes back and tastes just as good as it did, depending on the kind of honey it is eg bean or rape or other.

If you go to a beekeeper you are going to get honey from one source you see, not a mixture of places. If you go in a supermarket and get some Gales or other makes, you don't know where it is from, probably EU counties of course, but probably not English. All results in better tasting honey. Why do you need so much of it btw?

BigJimmyB

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

You really make me laugh sometimes, 50 kilos of honey, hee hee hee.

You'll be buzzing after that lot....

Honey doesn't go off, you mook :roll:

cougie

I dont think you'd get a better price buying 50kg as opposed to the catering size 20kg ?

How long would that last you ?

will3

giant mancp wrote:

Bhima wrote:

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

Honey doesn't go "off". Ever.

Very true - if it does crystalise, you just heat in a saucepan and it's fine again. It usually comes back and tastes just as good as it did, depending on the kind of honey it is eg bean or rape or other.

personally I prefer it crystalised

Anonymous

Ok, so I made a mistake, honey doesn't go off, but to be fair I'm not the headcase trying to buy 50 kilos of the stuff. :roll:

Escargot

The thing that springs to mind is that even if you put it in a squeezy bottle it would be pretty tough to squeeze out. Have you tried this out already ?

In either case do you really want 50kg (sorry if that's a silly question).

The only reason I ask is that even if you consumed 200g per ride (almost equivalent to 2 gel sachets) you would have enough for 250 rides out. That's a lot of rides (1 whole season perhaps) and a lot of honey should you get bored of eating the stuff.

Not trying to pi$$ on your fireworks but that's a hella big tub of honey

Bhima

Well, to be honest, I just plucked a random number out of the air - 20kg would probably be fine. Looking at some of the prices in shops, the price drop per gram is not much as you go from 250g to 1kg so I assume you'd get a better deal on something above 20/30kg.

The other thing is, a mate has offered to give me a lift in his van to pick up some honey (he also wants to get some) so I might as well get LOADS while I have the chance of free delivery.

I do go through it quite quickly as I also like to have some in porridge/recovery milkshakes/with fruit & yoghurt/in herbal tea/etc. The only problem is crystalization but putting my squeezy bottle in warm water for 10 minutes melts it all back into liquid again, so it shouldn't be too much trouble.

I just found a beekeeper down in Parrs Wood, so i'll cycle down tomorrow and see what they can do for me.

As for the teeth - they're fine! The squeezy bottle I have in my rear jersey pocket usually squirts all the honey down my throat and on to the back of my tongue when riding. My teeth have more of a manky feeling from having 1 banana, to be honest. It can annoy the hell out of you after 60+ miles.

Anonymous

BigJimmyB wrote:

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

You really make me laugh sometimes, 50 kilos of honey, hee hee hee.

You'll be buzzing after that lot....

Honey doesn't go off, you mook :roll:

Mook ? Mook? What a bizarre insult. Bell-end would have been much better, infact thats what I think you might be....or not, let me know. :roll:

Infamous

haha genius.

anyone else imagining bhima riding no handed, with a jar of honey in one hand and a tea spoon in the other?

giant_man

Bhima wrote:

Well, to be honest, I just plucked a random number out of the air - 20kg would probably be fine. Looking at some of the prices in shops, the price drop per gram is not much as you go from 250g to 1kg so I assume you'd get a better deal on something above 20/30kg.

The other thing is, a mate has offered to give me a lift in his van to pick up some honey (he also wants to get some) so I might as well get LOADS while I have the chance of free delivery.

I do go through it quite quickly as I also like to have some in porridge/recovery milkshakes/with fruit & yoghurt/in herbal tea/etc. The only problem is crystalization but putting my squeezy bottle in warm water for 10 minutes melts it all back into liquid again, so it shouldn't be too much trouble.

I just found a beekeeper down in Parrs Wood, so i'll cycle down tomorrow and see what they can do for me.

As for the teeth - they're fine! The squeezy bottle I have in my rear jersey pocket usually squirts all the honey down my throat and on to the back of my tongue when riding. My teeth have more of a manky feeling from having 1 banana, to be honest. It can annoy the hell out of you after 60+ miles.

Excellent, let us know how you get on.

BigJimmyB

dmclite wrote:

BigJimmyB wrote:

dmclite wrote:

WTF ? 50 kilos ? That lot would go off before you could eat it, mind you you'd have no teeth left after a month so its redundant anyway.

You really make me laugh sometimes, 50 kilos of honey, hee hee hee.

You'll be buzzing after that lot....

Honey doesn't go off, you mook :roll:

Mook ? Mook? What a bizarre insult. Bell-end would have been much better, infact thats what I think you might be....or not, let me know. :roll:

Great comeback.......

fungus_the_muffin_man

Infamous wrote:

haha genius.

anyone else imagining bhima riding no handed, with a jar of honey in one hand and a tea spoon in the other?

I was more expecting him to be riding no handed whilst dipping his banana's into a pot of honey then ending up riding with a trail of bees after him.

drewfromrisca

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

Infamous wrote:

haha genius.

anyone else imagining bhima riding no handed, with a jar of honey in one hand and a tea spoon in the other?

I was more expecting him to be riding no handed whilst dipping his banana's into a pot of honey then ending up riding with a trail of bees after him.

Whilst going uphill.