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Honey Guide Why Has My Honey Gone Solid? How to Make It Runny Again Is solid honey safe to eat, or has it gone off? No. If your runny honey has turned thick, cloudy or solid, it has simply crystallised (or "set", as beekeepers say). It's completely natural, perfectly safe to eat, and tastes just as good. In fact, setting is what real, unprocessed honey does. At Honeyfields Bee Farm we tell every customer to expect it: all honey sets eventually, some varieties just take longer than others. Ou …

British Honey Guide Spring, Summer, Heather or Borage? A Guide to English Honey Varieties Why does English honey taste so different from jar to jar? The short answer: it all comes down to the flowers. Our bees make honey from whatever is blooming within a few miles of the hive, so a jar from May tastes nothing like a jar from August, and honey from the Yorkshire moors is different again. At Honeyfields Bee Farm we've been keeping bees in Warwickshire since 1985. Our spring and summer honey c …