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Svođe · 500 m · July
Forest honey (honeydew)
The honey that honeydew brings.
Honeydew is the sweet film aphids leave on oak and maple leaves, and the bees collect it once the flowers are gone. How much there is depends on how many aphids the year produced, so this honey does not appear in every season.
- Oak and maple honeydew
- July
- 500 m
- Almost black
- 300 g500 RSD≈ 4,27 €
- 500 g750 RSD≈ 6,41 €
- 980 g1.400 RSD≈ 11,97 €
The jars
Which one is which.
The same three sizes from the price list above, photographed at the apiary.
How it tastes
Less sweet than the other two.
- In the mouth
- Dense and dark, with a note of resin and something baked.
- Goes with
- With mature cheese and walnut, and in red wine in winter. For pancakes it is too heavy.
- Crystallisation
- Very fast, within three to six months. It rarely reaches spring still liquid.
The seasons it skips.
Honeydew depends on aphids, and there are as many of those as the weather that year allows. It can be plentiful two seasons running and then absent for three.
In a season when it fails, the jar is not topped up with another variety. Forest honey simply is not on the list that year.
At a glance
Price and facts: forest honey.
- 300 g jar500 RSD
- 500 g jar750 RSD
- 980 g jar1.400 RSD
- Per kilogram, 980 g jar1.429 RSD/kg
- Nectar flowOak and maple honeydew
- Place and altitudeSvođe · 500 m
- HarvestedJuly
- CrystallisationWithin three to six months
- CourierBEX Express
- Free deliveryorders over 5,000 RSD are delivered free
- Paymentcash on delivery, to the courier
All three varieties, comb honey and propolis sit side by side on the price list.
What honeydew honey is.
Honeydew honey, also called forest honey, is made by the bees from honeydew, the sweet film aphids leave on oak, maple and hornbeam leaves. Ours comes from the woods around Svođe, at around 500 m, and is extracted in July, once the flowers are over.
It is dark, almost black, dense and less sweet than blossom honey, with a note of resin. It crystallises fast, within three to six months, because of its high glucose and melezitose content, and it rarely reaches spring still liquid. Under EU rules honeydew honey is also told apart from blossom honey by an electrical conductivity above 0.8 mS/cm.
At no stage is the honey heated above 40 °C or pressure-filtered.
Buying forest honey with delivery.
Forest honey comes in 300, 500 and 980 g jars for as long as there is any, and is ordered through the basket on this site or by phone. In a year when the honeydew fails, there is no forest honey on offer.
The parcel goes with the courier BEX Express to any address in Serbia, and delivery is usually 2 to 5 working days from hand-over. Collection in person is possible in Vlasotince, by arrangement over the phone. All about delivery
The 980 g jar is 1.400 RSD, about 1.429 RSD/kg, the same as the Vlasina honey. Smaller sizes cost more per kilogram because of the packaging. It is all on the price list.
Honeydew is the sweet film aphids leave on the leaves of oak, maple and hornbeam. The bees collect it once the flowers are gone, so the honey made from it does not come from blossom. Under European Union rules this honey is formally told apart from blossom honey by an electrical conductivity above 0.8 mS/cm, which comes from its higher mineral content.
There is as much honeydew as there are aphids in a given year, and there are as many of those as the weather allows. It can run two seasons in a row and then be absent for three.
In a season when it fails, the jar is not topped up with another variety. Forest honey simply is not on the list that year.
The darker colour of honeydew honey goes together with a higher mineral content, which is also measured as a higher electrical conductivity. That carries into the taste, which is less sweet and denser than acacia.
Which one suits whom is a matter of taste. Anyone used to mild honey takes a while to get on with honeydew, and anyone who likes it strong rarely goes back to acacia.
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.
One to three things of your choosing, sent straight to the recipient with no price inside. Honey as a gift.
Closed jar, room temperature, away from sunlight. Not in the fridge. Always a dry spoon.