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For beekeepers

Send eight ounces. Get your honey described.

A trained panel tastes your sample blind and writes up what they find — aroma, flavor, sweetness, persistence, texture — in plain language. Your profile joins the library under your apiary's name, or anonymously if you prefer. There is no fee and no certification required.

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How it works

1

Tell us about the honey

Floral source, region, harvest month, and how it was extracted. Two minutes on the form below.

2

Mail the sample

Eight ounces in any clean sealed jar. Fill out the form below, then pay for and print your own shipping label right on this site.

3

The panel tastes it

Your jar is recoded and assessed blind at a monthly session by several certified tasters working from a fixed vocabulary.

4

You get the readout

A one-page written profile, yours to use however you like, plus the library entry it becomes.

What a readout looks like

Plain language, no scores

Sourwood · Blue Ridge, North Carolina · July 2026

Sample 2026-041 · assessed by six panelists

Aroma

Light and floral, with anise and warm bread underneath.

Flavor

Moderately sweet, faintly buttery, closing with a clean gingery bite.

Texture

Thick, slow to melt on the tongue, no crystals detected.

Persistence

Long. Panelists still described the anise a full minute after tasting.

Sample intake form

Everything we need to log your jar. Sending more than one kind? Add each one below — takes just a couple of minutes.

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About you

So we can send your shipping label and your honey reports.

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Your honey

We're after single-source honey where you know the main bloom — blackberry, tulip poplar, and the like, not mixed wildflower. Add each honey you're sending; each gets its own code, and about 8 oz a jar is plenty.

Where you'll ship from

We use this to quote your shipping label.

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Your package

Once everything's jarred and boxed up, weigh the box and measure it — this is what sets your shipping cost. A kitchen scale and a tape measure are plenty.

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Only added once your jars arrive. Leave it unchecked to stay private.

Ship it in — here's your codes and your label.

Write each code on its jar so we can match it to what you told me:

    Pack your jars in the box you weighed and measured, then pay for the label below — it's generated instantly from your package details.

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    Your label's ready!

    Print it, stick it on the box, and drop it off — you're done.

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    Questions beekeepers ask

    Does my honey need to be certified or tested?

    No. We are documenting flavor, not issuing grades. Any honey you can identify a predominant floral source for is welcome.

    What if the source is mixed?

    Tell us what you know. Wildflower and mixed-source honeys are recorded too, filed by region and season rather than by plant.

    How long until I hear back?

    Samples are tasted at the next monthly session with room on the docket, so usually four to eight weeks from the day your jar arrives.

    Who sees my information?

    Panelists taste blind and never see your name. Published entries credit your apiary only if you ask us to.

    Can I send more than one?

    Yes, and please do — different sources, different years, different yards. Submit one form per jar.