Bavaria's best creamy summer honey: Hallbergmooser wins for the third time

Created: 12/19/2022, 12:00 p.m

The Bavarian Honey Queen Victoria Seeburger (l.) and Honey Princess Linda Jakob awarded Bruno Willing with a certificate and an engraved stick chisel.

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For the third time the title "Best Honey in Bavaria" goes to Hallbergmoos - to beekeeper Bruno Willing.

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– Bruno Willing (59) from Hallbergmoos has been a beekeeper for nine years.

As part of the 8th Bavarian Honey Festival in Triesdorf, his creamy honey was recently awarded the title "Best Honey in Bavaria" by the Bavarian Beekeepers' Association.

For Bioland beekeeper Willing, this is the third award in the competition.

In addition to the certificate, he was presented with an engraved stick chisel by the Bavarian Honey Queen Victoria Seeburger and the Bavarian Honey Princess Linda Jakob.

Top honeys submitted for participation by 265 beekeepers from all over Bavaria were evaluated by honey experts according to the criteria of the German Beekeepers' Association.

In addition to the condition of the honey, cleanliness, smell, taste and presentation are also checked and the ingredients analyzed in the laboratory.

The best honey in Bavaria can only be honey that is rich in enzymes and free of residues.

"Honey must never run out of the jar"

The creamy honey must be melt-in-the-mouth and without crystals.

“The honey must never run out of the jar and it must not be too solid.

If you take something out with the spoon, the resulting hole must not close again,” says Willing.

In order for the honey to be nice and creamy, you have to find the right time to stir it after harvesting.

Exactly when the honey slowly begins to crystallize.

"And then the honey has to be stirred thoroughly two to three times a day for several weeks."

For his victory honey, a creamy late honey, the bees collected the nectar mainly in allotments with fruit trees and lime trees.

Willing then mixed suitable honeys from Munich and Hallbergmoos.

(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)

Bruno Willing is a member of the beekeeping association in Massenhausen (community of Neufahrn).

His 65 colonies are located in and around Hallbergmoos and Freising, as well as on their open-air sites and roofs in Munich and the surrounding area as part of the bee sponsorships he offers to companies.

Since this year he has been a certified organic beekeeper out of conviction and keeps bees according to the strict guidelines of Bioland.

For example, no plastic may be used in the "hives", i.e. the bee home.

In addition, most of the bees have to overwinter on their own honey.

He says: "The operating method requires a lot of extra effort, but the award shows me, the bees and my customers that the effort is worth it."

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