October 2013: This years honey show

We are really quite lucky in Epsom to have the National Honey show at St. George's College, Weybridge each year.  Whilst its not quite on our door step the 20 minute drive makes it very accessible, and an easy day trip out.

What an amazing amount of honey was there on show!

And an amazing amount of silverware...

Waiting for those who are brave enough to submit to the scrutiny of the honey judges...

Last year Epsom entered 6 jars of honey into the class for six matching jars from one apiary and won!

With a much bigger harvest this year we were hopeful of similar success.  Sadly it wasn't to be - no place at all.

Still we can stand back and admire all the glorious honeys...light, dark, creamed an set...

 

 




Not to mention the interesting displays of honey related products...

 

and the honey and bee keeping related exhibits...

And beeswax...

And now full of inspiration we're off to make a plan for next year.....

September: Honey tasting

What a lot we've got!

32 honeys to taste in one evening- yum yum

They were all carefully organised and anonymously labelled by our excellent administrator and laid out ready to be tasted and scored.  We kept it simple this year 5 for delicious and 1 for disgusting...

Let the tasting commence...

It was great fun!  as the ooohs.... and aaahhhs.... and yummmms rose from the table punctuated by the occasional "aaagh that's rank" and as we all got slightly giddy on the sugar rush our administrator and score keeper kept us fairly under control...

Finally we were ready to reveal the scores...

Oh no!!!! there were three with IDENTICAL scores.  Time for a final adjudication to find the winner...

OH no!!! our Jury couldn't agree - we still had two honey's scoring the same.  Time for a new team of adjudicators....

What???? still no winner ??? Is anyone brave enough to step forward and declare one honey the best and the other the runner up?

And we have a winner!  Manley family honey for a second year running - How do they do it?