Australian honey news and information
Wild Nectar - a new honey brand on Australian supermarket shelves
Wild Nectar is the latest new honey brand to hit the shelves of Australian supermarkets. this month. It features professionally designed packaging and is available in both organic and normal varieties.
Moreover the company behind it has big plans.
In fact, the company - Australian Rainforest Honey Pty Ltd (ARH) is already well-known in the Australian honey industry as a major producer and owner/operator of some six thousand bee hives, mainly on the south coast of NSW.
UK rejects New Zealand push for manuka honey trademark
Australian manuka honey Manuka honey Trademark
A New Zealand government backed attempt to get a legal monopoly on manuka honey has been quashed by the United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
Reversing an interim decision to grant a certification trademark, the IPO reportedly made the common-sense observation that manuka honey is a description of a type of honey.
And it specifically rejected the proposition that the UK general public understands manuka honey to be exclusively from New Zealand.
Capilano launches yet another imported honey brand – The Honey Collective.
Capilano Imported honey New Zealand honey The Honey Collective
The clever marketers at Capilano have launched yet another new brand of cheap imported honey in Australia recently – The Honey Collective. Its sourced from New Zealand and appeared on the shelves of Coles supermarkets early this month. Doubtless the honey is a quality product, and will appeal to consumers looking for the cheapest honey they can find. Certainly at just $4.40 for a 375gms jar, the honey is very cheap. In per kilogram terms, the honeys retail price is just $11.70 per kg. That undercuts the price of comparable Australian honeys by as much as $10 per kilo....
Honey Jumbles - A simple recipe for a classic family favourite
Honey Jumbles are simple to make, and kids love them. That’s been true for a hundred years or more. Even better they have a very long shelf life. Indeed, thats partly why they’ve been so popular for such a long time, and why your great-grandparents loved them too. They didn’t need refrigeration, microwave or special storage to make or keep, and stayed good to eat for ever. Try this simple recipe in your kitchen and impress your family with the result.
Dead AirBnB honeys are a “thing”
There was a cluster of old honeys in the kitchen cupboard of the AirBnB we stayed at recently. Some were brands I’d never seen before, including one from tiny Pitcairn Island, in the middle of the Pacific. 
But what made me wonder about them most, was the fact that the honey inside the jars was candied or cystallized...