LEWIS COUNTY BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATION                                                          

Monthly Meetings are at Centralia College, 701 W. Walnut St., Centralia WA 98531
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Preparing Your Honey for Fair Judging

Would you like to show your honey at the Southwest Washington Fair?  LCBA's Education Coordinator, Peter Glover, has prepared a slideshow to help:

Honey Judging At the Southwest Washington Fair covers judging criteria and gives tips on preparing your honey.

Click on the hyperlinks to view the Fair Categories for Honey & Other Bee Products and the Honey Judging Score Card.

In addition to regular liquid honey, cut comb entries - see below - are welcome, along with chunk honey, wax, mead, and other bee products.

2015 Prizewinning Cut Comb Honey entered by Jennifer Reiman

Below, an example of chunk honey (chunks of cut comb suspended in liquid honey):

Chunk Honey

Below, wax entries at the Fair:

Wax entries at the Fair

Below, Steve Howard & Dan Maughan tied for Best In Show Honey in 2017:

Steve Howard and Dan Maughan won 2017 best in show ribbons

LCBA 2017 Honey Judging Contest

Above, honey after judging at the 2017 Southwest Washington Fair; below, these entries before judging show good examples of how honey entries should look:

Below, a just-bottled pint of honey shows bubbles, which would cost points in judging. It's important to give your honey a few days to sit so that bubbles dissipate and any wax or particles rise to the top so that you can skim them off. There are more tips in our slideshow - see left column.

Honey with bubbles

 Below, foam at the top of a honey entry - foam should be skimmed off and fresh honey added to make a full pint - another reason to prepare your honey several days prior to entering it in a contest: Foam rises to the top of a honey jar

Below, note gap between top of honey and lid!  If this were commercial honey, it would be viewed as "shorting the customer." Be sure your honey fills the bottle with no visible gap between honey and jar lid, but be sure not to get honey ON the bottom of the lid!

A honey jar not fully filled

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Monthly Meetings are at Centralia College, 701 W. Walnut St., Centralia WA 98531
Centralia, WA 98531

fax: N/A

rick.battin@gmail.com