Tupelo Honey (Extra Light Amber) 661-lb Drum

PROUDLY AMERICAN 🇺🇸

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Virtually Never Crystallizes

With an industry-leading fructose-to-glucose ratio of ≈ 1.60—far above the 1.20–1.30 you see in clover or wildflower—Tupelo Honey behaves more like a light syrup than a conventional honey:

Never-ending liquidity. Left on a shelf at 68 °F (20 °C) it remains pourable not for months but for multiple years, eliminating the hot rooms, warming blankets, and labor hours other honeys devour.

Zero crystallization hotspots. Even in cold storage (down to 50 °F / 10 °C) Tupelo resists nucleation, so no grit forms at the bottom of squeeze bottles and no sugar crust builds on drum walls.

Process savings. Skip jacketed kettles and inline heaters; a standard food-grade drum pump or bucket valve is all you need to move product from vessel to mixer, filler, or fermenter—no energy spend, no enzyme loss.

The result is an effortless, velvety flow that treats a 60-lb bucket or a 661-lb drum exactly the same: open, dispense, close—done. In other words, liquidity engineered by nature, efficiency claimed by you.

Best-in-Class Flavor

Signature taste: imagine warm butter drizzled with the lightest cane-syrup ribbon: satin-smooth, softly floral, and just sweet enough to command attention without overwhelming a palate. First notes recall vanilla bean and fresh-cut sugarcane; a faint green-apple brightness lifts the mid-taste, keeping the richness from ever feeling heavy.

Finish: it exits like a whisper: impeccably clean, zero bitterness, no cloying film. Within seconds the sweetness dissolves, leaving only a gentle memory of honeyed cream and the curiosity to take another spoonful.

Exclusively USA-Made

True Tupelo blossoms for barely two weeks a year in the river swamps of northern Florida and southern Georgia. Harvesting anywhere else? Impossible. Buying it means you’re backing American beekeepers who literally wade—or float—into wild wetlands to capture this fleeting bloom.

The Trees Behind the Treasure

Botanical Identity
Our honey comes solely from the White Tupelo ( Nyssa ogeche ), sometimes called Ogeechee Tupelo. These flood-plain giants reach 50–90 ft, rooting happily in standing water where most trees would rot. In mid-to-late April they erupt in clusters of pale, greenish-white blossoms, fragrant pompoms that drip nectar for a vanishingly short 14- to 21-day window. Miss that window and the bees go home empty-handed.

Why They’re Special
The nectar chemistry of Nyssa ogeche is unique: exceptionally high fructose, minimal glucose, and a naturally low pH that keeps yeast at bay. The result? A honey that stays liquid, resists fermentation, and glows Extra Light Amber like sunlit straw.

Bulk Advantage. Why the 661-lb Drum Wins

Running a regional bakery chain, a high-throughput meadery, an RTD beverage plant, or any industrial kitchen where “downtime” is a dirty word? The 661-pound (300 kg) food-grade, steel drum is your all-in-one efficiency engine:

• Lowest cost per pound: One drum ≈ eleven 60-lb buckets, slashing unit price, handling labor, and inbound freight.
• Container consolidation: Fewer vessels on the floor = quicker inventory counts, cleaner HACCP flows, simpler lot tracing.
• Stackable & pallet-ready: UN-rated drums nest two-high on a 48 × 48 in pallet, maximizing cubic efficiency in dry storage or bonded warehouses.
• Recyclable steel: Qualifies for closed-loop recycling programs; lowers your facility’s landfill footprint and supports ESG targets.

Process Efficiencies

• No warming required. Thanks to Tupelo’s ultra-high F/G ratio, the honey flows at 70 °F (21 °C) through a ½-in hose at 4–6 gal/min, straight into mix tanks, fermenters, or inline blenders. Zero heat-blankets, zero enzyme loss.
• Long-run flavor integrity. Live enzymes, pollen markers, and phytonutrients remain intact for multi-week production campaigns.

In short, the 661-lb drum turns White Tupelo’s natural liquidity into industrial-scale agility: fewer touches, faster throughput, and a sweeter bottom line.

Every Honey Blossom variety ships in its natural, untouched state RAW and Unfiltered unless you expressly ask for a different spec. That means no pasteurizers, no ultrafine filters, and absolutely no shortcuts. We capture each harvest at peak bloom, gravity-strain it to remove only large comb particles, and seal it promptly so the live enzymes, antioxidants, pollen, and volatile aromatics stay exactly as the bees created them. The result is nature’s best delivered shelf-ready, process-ready, and future-ready, with zero heat damage and the full integrity of the floral source preserved.