About
One apiary. No shortcuts.
Small apiary.
Honest honey.
Honey Monster is a small apiary in the Noosa hinterland, Queensland. We keep a limited number of hives, rotate harvest locations across the hinterland, and bottle in small batches. Nothing is blended, lightened, or adjusted. The flavour in the jar is the flavour the bees produced.
Practice
What we do,
and what we don't.
Each extraction is handled at the apiary. We cold-filter to remove wax and debris, nothing more. Heat processing accelerates the shelf life on paper; it also destroys the enzymes, destroys some of the aroma compounds, and flattens the complexity. We don't do it.
Batches are numbered and dated at extraction. When a batch sells through, it does not return — the next harvest from the same location will produce a different honey, and it deserves its own label. We do not restock with honey from another source to meet demand.
Location
Noosa hinterland,
Queensland.
The hinterland behind Noosa is foraging country — eucalypt woodland, macadamia country, coastal scrub. The bees work across it. What ends up in each jar depends on the season, the weather, and where we placed the hives. It is not predictable. That is the point.
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