Bowral Honey Tasting: A Sweet Hive Opening Review

So, you know, I’d heard some things, like good things, very good things even, about the Bowral Honey Tasting and Hive Opening experience, and I really just had to check it out myself. I mean, sure, who can pass up learning a bit more about those teeny buzzing fellas, right? Bowral, which is almost picture-perfect down there in the Southern Highlands, feels just right for, well, a beekeeping shindig and a honey sampling session, so it does.

First Impressions: More Than Just a Tasting

That first breath there, once I hopped out of my car, right there near the farm, that, is that a blend of crisp country air and a subtle hint of flowers. Turns out, more or less, it smells a little like you think it might. The hosts, really very cheerful folks they are, greet you, you know, with these warm smiles and, too it’s almost as if they’re super stoked to share what they do, I think anyway. That setup is pretty decent with lots of information scattered round on posters to do with bees and honey production which makes the experience worth it, potentially. Anyway, it’s pretty decent because it isn’t only just sampling different honeys; it’s, you know, getting into what keeps a hive doing it’s thing and all.

Speaking of the information, there were boards and posters all around and about that gave you all the info you need to learn all about the honeybees. What they do, what makes up their world, what their impact is; all the interesting information you can get.

Too it’s almost pretty special because, they were answering lots of questions, as I was saying, and you felt welcomed as soon as you turned up and, that meant a whole lot to me.

The Honey Tasting Experience

Okay, you know, so the tasting, now that part, is what you expect I suppose, but it’s also still more if that makes any sense, yet. So it’s presented very well and you taste so much honey. We were chatting to those who presented and got lots of insights and were tasting for about an hour, which was pretty decent for me and my partner.

This experience could be that of someone well versed in food critiquing but at the very core of it’s soul, you’re gonna think and consider it’s some really exceptional honey, basically. There is just such an impressive selection and what not.

Honey is one of the oldest known sweets for us humans but it’s never gotten boring and to be honest, I’m that surprised considering how incredible it tastes, I mean really. Different textures and smells all tied into what seems to me to be a real complex experience.

Apparently, in some respects anyway, I learnt, that factors, such as flower types and how things go about during that ‘honey season’, you may call it, are going to do things, they’ll switch it all up. Each variety tastes rather unique and all this does things as you have all sorts of different kinds that come about on any kind of, maybe smaller, scale to that of massive industrial quantities, basically.

Diving Into the Hive Opening

Okay, that hive bit there, I mean the opening is really what I was so very keen to see and get involved with myself, you know? Watching the beekeeper gently crack that hive, it gives me tingles all up my arms. The frames came out, slow like, heavy as bricks maybe with their loads of honeycomb and just thousands upon thousands of worker bees doing their things. So there were bees right near me and I was alright.

You can be so calm and relaxed that you have it where you can learn tons while being in touching distance of loads of bees doing what they do and still not be nervous. They had gear for the beekeeper on scene as well.

The insight which you get from the explanation by the keepers of the hives is pretty top stuff. A look at just what exactly goes on in their world and there is, like, some deep level of value that seems to emerge out of what are relatively some everyday-looking frames of the combs that had, actually, come out to that point. I just felt really connected.

A Sweet Treat: The Morning Tea

Right, so that morning tea is like the honey tasting on a plate really. It’s got scones that still have the warmth from that oven that morning and those sandwiches do things with lots of nice honey too. It felt, right there anyway, that everything came directly from nearby farms. Anyway I liked it and, maybe more, so did the family.

Apparently the experience felt so sweet and it felt like that in a whole heap of ways, by the way. So, you have eaten honey but maybe you want that little bit that, honestly, finishes it off and all ties in and together very lovely.

In some respects, maybe, as I was saying anyway, that little scone with all that delicious dollop of cream and all the fresh honey can almost do things by simply whisking your emotions off that morning chill and onto the good foot; like your soul is smiling. So good.

Final Thoughts and Recommendations

In some respects I went down there just checking out, yet, honey. We’re a family who likes this sort of thing and this had us loving life in that honey farm a little bit. Sure, learning about those small fellas that create what is like our sweetness makes for one nice bit, very. You can make the connection with just where stuff comes from very quickly and so I got real, like, a lot out of what I learnt there too, is that, anyway, what you would expect? Yeah it is. If you might be visiting the Southern Highlands, this does have a spot on what I would recommend for sure.

Basically, that time at Bowral Honey Tasting does seem to be more something very sweet in our minds. I do believe we really want to go, once more.

It could be more, basically, than you bargained for. Honey right where it’s done? Nice day with scones and cream in a little farm. What an awesome day for us to be doing some nice family time in Bowral in some ways.

Key Takeaways:

• A really awesome sensory exploration that is to do with the art of making honey
• You are learning all about that beehive while there on the spot and can do things that relate to bees
• Lovely spot to find down near those Southern Highlands there too, for that next family day maybe

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