The same honey, another form

Honey in the comb.

The comb is cut out of the frame together with the honey the bees capped inside it, so the jar holds wax as well. It comes as acacia and as Vlasina honey, in 500 and 980 gram jars.

Two jars of comb honey side by side, dark Vlasina and light acacia

In the comb

A piece of comb in the jar.

Once the honey in a cell has ripened the bees close it with a thin wax capping, and a piece of comb like that goes into the jar without being extracted. The wax is eaten along with the honey, usually on bread, and it can also be chewed until the honey has gone out of it.

  • A jar of light acacia comb honey on a wooden board
    Acacia honey in the comb May and June · Vlasotince and Svođe
    • 500 g900 RSD≈ 7,69 €
    • 980 g1.700 RSD≈ 14,53 €
    In stock About acacia
  • A jar of dark Vlasina comb honey on a wooden board
    Vlasina honey in the comb June to August · the slopes of Čemernik
    • 500 g1.000 RSD≈ 8,55 €
    • 980 g1.800 RSD≈ 15,38 €
    In stock About Vlasina
An open hive with wild comb and bees.

The wax cappings.

Before extraction the thin layer of wax the bees used to seal the cells is cut off the frame, and that is the cappings. It goes into the jar together with the honey, which gives you honey with pieces of wax in it but without whole comb.

The price is the same as for comb, and the difference is in how much wax comes with the honey and in how you eat it: cappings are easier to lift with a spoon.

With wax cappings

Honey with cappings.

  • Acacia honey with wax cappings May and June · Vlasotince and Svođe
    • 500 g900 RSD≈ 7,69 €
    • 980 g1.700 RSD≈ 14,53 €
    In stock Basket
  • Vlasina honey with wax cappings June to August · the slopes of Čemernik
    • 500 g1.000 RSD≈ 8,55 €
    • 980 g1.800 RSD≈ 15,38 €
    In stock Basket

Only two jar sizes are filled in this form, 500 and 980 g. Forest honey comes neither in the comb nor with cappings. Prices for the single-variety honeys in a plain jar are on the price list.

Before you order

Questions about this variety.

All questions

Acacia comb of 980 g is 1.700 RSD, and 500 g is 900 RSD. The Vlasina comb is 1.800 RSD for 980 g and 1.000 RSD for 500 g. All four, along with the jars and the propolis, are on the price list.

You cut the comb with a spoon or a knife, wax and all, and eat the whole thing. The wax chews like gum and you can swallow it or spit it out, whichever you prefer.

It goes with hard cheese and on toast, but not in tea, where the wax would melt and gather on the surface.

The comb is a whole piece, with the six-sided cells the bees built and sealed. In a jar of honey with cappings there is liquid honey with the caps floating in it, the caps being what the bees put over a full cell.

The honey is the same. The difference is how much wax you get and how you eat it.

The honey in the cells sets over time just as it does in a jar, and acacia comb does it more slowly than the Vlasina one. The wax stays as it is.

Comb is not warmed to bring the honey back to liquid, because the wax would melt first. It is eaten as it comes.

Delivery

All of Serbia, payment cash on delivery, to the courier, and orders over 5,000 RSD are delivered free. Below that, delivery is charged separately, at the courier's own tariff, and paid to the courier, together with the order total.

How to store

Room temperature and a closed jar, the same as for honey without comb. The wax darkens over time, which does not affect the honey.

As a gift

Comb and cappings go into a gift the same way jars do: one to three things, with no price in the parcel. Honey as a gift.