Description
Honey’s unique chemistry makes it a great natural solvent. Being thick and moisture-drawing, it’s excellent at gently extracting colour, flavour, and aroma from botanicals over time. By infusing at low temperatures, we protect the delicate compounds in both the honey and the botanicals, preserving vibrant colour and fresh, clean flavours alongside the natural sweetness that makes honey so irresistible.
Today’s workshop will show you how to infuse your honey and create golden elixers from the by-products in a cascading extraction processes, leaving you with several delicious and versatile ingredients.
Our morning session
- Learn the science: Discover how honey’s natural chemistry makes it an excellent solvent, drawing out colour, flavour, and aroma from botanicals.
- Select your botanicals, balancing flavour and using what’s in season.
- Infuse at low temperatures protecting the delicate compounds in both honey and botanicals for clean flavour and vibrant colour.
- Sterilise your jars and get storage tips so your honey keeps beautifully.
- Create elixirs with our honey-soaked botanical marc, nothing goes to waste!
- Finish with a drink using Alembics Lab botanical teas and the honey you’ve just made.
All botanicals and resources are provided and you’ll leave with your own jar of herbal honey to take home.
Getting here: Ferries depart from downtown Auckland, and take approximately 45 minutes. If you are not staying on the island, we recommend an 8am ferry to arrive in plenty of time. You can easily bus to the venue—public buses depart from the ferry terminal at Matiatia. All three buses (50A, 50B and 502) will get you here—just ask your friendly driver which stop to get off at to get you to Moa Ave.
Lunch: The Lab is an easy 10 minute walk from the shops and cafés of Oneroa Village.
Can’t make your booking? Get in touch and we can help you out. You can view our cancellation policy here.
