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In this year's edition they have competed 51 participants, of which 40 have been in the form of amateur beekeeper and 11 as a professional beekeeper
At 21.00 hours of 5 In December, the winners of the 19th Official Gran Canaria Honey and Garoé Honey Competition were announced., by professional beekeeper Garoé Perera López, won the award for the best honey in Gran Canaria 2024.
This year they competed 51 participants, 40 in the form of amateur beekeeper and 11 as a professional beekeeper. The total number of samples presented was 63 but six of them were disqualified after physicochemical analyzes, pollen and previous sensory of all honeys, for not complying with the necessary parameters to compete, so
Finally they went to cat panel 57 samples
Organized one more year by the Ministry of Primary Sector, Food Sovereignty and Water Security of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria, This Competition meets the objectives of its strategic plan for the primary sector: valorization of the product and support for an activity that was about to disappear. In recent years, beekeeping has increased exponentially., counting today on around 330 beekeeping farms that total close to 11.000 hives. The Beekeeping School promoted by this Ministry, contributes to ensuring the generational change that keeps this livestock activity alive.
Along with it, from the Ministry and jointly with the ULPGC, We have been working for ten years on the development of a selection plan for the Canary Black Bee on the island.. Part of this work has crystallized in the definition of a racial prototype of the Canary Black Bee., recently published and which is the first step to begin the process of recognition as a native species.
New category of honey in competition
This year the contest incorporates a new honey category: monofloral of Berol or Bejeque, as it is known in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Emiliano Fernández from El Hierro, component of the tasting panel and winner of the Best Honey from the Canary Islands award 2024 in the regional competition, believes that the appearance of this type of honey may be due to the fact that water stress due to lack of rain has precipitated the flowering of this plant above other common ones..
As it is a new modality not yet classified, the tasting team faced the challenge of detecting new characteristics., in addition to the first ones already identified: dark amber color, fluid in the mouth, medium and enveloping smell and intensity and fine crystallization.
