The Killer Bee Guy

You gotta try the killer bee honey! The staff is eccentric and will talk your ears off about the local bee population and the wide array of honey products they have available, and believe me, you want to go in and hear about all this, it’s a mandatory Bisbee experience! And stop in hungry, as you will want to try everything! It’s all good here, especially the fresh honey comb!

I love to shop at Killer Bee! Their prices are reasonable and they offer free samples. Yes — free samples! Just be careful not to get lost in their expansive space. I went in and had to ask for help to find my way back out (JKLOL). Lovely folks, really!

This guy is awesome! He is really excited about his products! It all comes from local bee’s that he removes for the local law enforcement that he then in turns uses to produce his products. He has a tiny shop but a big personality! He wants you to try everything and is very helpful in explaining what the products are, what they go good with, etc. He has a special buy 4 get the 5^th free and you can be I took him up on that! My favorite I tried was the garlic honey butter which I know I will be using soon. I also got a rum honey that will make a great addition to hot chocolate as well as a raspberry which I am going to use to marinade some lamb burgers. I can’t wait to use all my new products and it is really great the way you get to try everything, really makes you not be able to leave without several!

Placed an order for pollen and honey online. It has been a month and no product. My credit card was charged, but nothing. I sent an email and called and left a voicemail and got no response. I here the product is great, but customer service no so much. I double checked my receipt to make sure the address was correct and it was so who knows. I sent another email today. Hopefully I will get a response this time, if not I will have to contact my credit card company to reverse the charge… Update. I did receive a response right after I posted.
…“Sorry for the delay but a heart attack kinda slowed me down a bit. I will refund your money. Again sorry!”
I certainly hope all goes well with the recovery. I am disappointed that no one was looking out for the business and following up. Next time I will buy in person.

Oh wow. Drool… Yes go, they have many different, unusual and enormously delicious flavors (A lot of which are award winning). We picked up Chipotle, Regular (I am a bit of a purist), and Vanilla for tea.
Do it, buy some honey and curse the fact that you don’t live in Bisbee. But guess what? I am pretty sure they offer shipping. Yay! Rejoice again!

unique and everywhere.

I found the honey hole!
So I haven’t been to the store in Bisbee in person, I actually discovered Killer Bee honey here at a local shop in Tucson… on the 50% off rack to boot! It was mama’s lucky day. Let’s just say I loaded up and now I’m hooked. My favorite item is their Outstanding Orange Honey Butter. I put it on my pancakes and I’m done — no butter or syrup necessary. This stuff is pure heaven. I also like to add it to my morning smoothies for a bit of sweetness. The options are limitless, and there’s nothing like pure local honey to soothe a myriad health maladies. I’ve even worn this goodness on my face as a skin mask — with glowing results, I might add!
This honey is so good, I’m shipping it to all of my family on the east coast for Christmas presents this year. Lucky them! It’s the perfect little something to spread some southwest cheer. Just visit their website to check out all of their yummy offerings.

Found this place just by walking by. The gentleman who works there is very friendly and full of information and spunk! Good prices on really yummy honey. AND all the free samples you want!

We stop here EVERY time we visit Bisbee. It is BY FAR the best honey ever made. With all the additives in store bought honey and the claims of 100% real honey, it is hard to trust anything that comes from a store anymore. We only buy direct from the farmer, farmers markets or stock up at Killer Bee Guy. You can literally taste the quality here folks. Stop by and sample for yourself!

Loved the tiny store. And the samples and information about killer bees. I can’t speak for the pest control services.

Free samples! Also, delicious honey that I can’t stop using on everything I make (yogurt, cereal, pancakes, fruit, tofu, shrimp… you name it). I’m running out of my bottle that I’ve had for 2 months, and I can’t wait to pick up some more!
They have delicious flavored honeys, too, that I can’t wait to try!

Amazing! Conversation is great and they tell you all about the bees, the honey is infused with so many flavors. I really like the plain one though, but the Rum flavor is yummy too.

We found this place while touring Bisbee. The honeys are wonderful and Reed is a fun guy to talk with. He has a wide variety of honey products, including honey butters and honey mustards. We spoke about how local honey is very good for coping with allergies. I highly recommend stopping in and tasting the honeys. You will want to bring some home with you. :)

I believe this is the tiniest shop in Old Bisbee. We noticed it while walking around but didn’t stop in until our last day. The shopkeeper had some pretzels and sample honey flavors outside. Flavored honey such as garlic, blueberry cream, and cinnamon. She also offered us a taste of honey comb which I’d never tried before. That stuff was amazing! She had so much knowledge of the product and told us a little bit about the «killer bee guy» who is a real guy, not just the shops name.
She also explained some of the health benefits of honey and honey pollen and how some of her customers have used it for years for various ailments.
We purchased a package of the honey comb. Cute place!

Pros: Best honey I’ve tasted. Went back to purchase another jar to gift to my parents.
Cons: Supply sell out quickly so buy early.

I discovered this place while walking through the streets of Bisbee, AZ with my wife on a lazy Sunday afternoon. We tried a sample on the sidewalk and then proceeded to spend the next 45 minutes inside talking with one of the proprietors and stocking up on the variety of their incredible honey creations. We ended up leaving with raspberry and vanilla flavored honeys along with their plain honey and their award winning horseradish honey mustard that packs a hot yet flavorful kick. We also learned a lot about bees, honey, and the Killer Bee Guy!
We will make many trips back to stock up on more honey and conversation!

It’s a fact: killer bees are here to stay.
What are killer bees? They are a human-​created species of honeybee, the result of a Brazilian experiment from the 1960’s to cross-​breed European honeybees with larger African bees to create a breed that would yield more honey. The breeding part worked, but the experiment went «Jurassic-​Park», the bees escaped, and have now infiltrated most of the Americas. They arrived in the U.S. in the 1990s.
I first learned about Reed Booth, the «Killer Bee Guy», on the Discovery Channel show «Risk Takers.»
Lest you think they’re warm and fuzzy, they are wild animals, and will aggressively defend their hives against anything they think threatens them. Thus the need for bee removal services like KBG.
The bee removal part of his business is devoted to removing hives the bees set up close enough to humans to threaten them. Whenever he can on a job, he saves the bees (and harvests their honey) by relocating them to the wild, versus killing them. When he has to kill some to remove the hive, he uses soapy water (very effective) instead of toxic pesticides.
He also farms killer bees at his home in Bisbee, near the AZ-​Mexico border and sells their honey and honey-​based products. After watching the show, I ordered some killer bee honey from the website. It’s made from mesquite and desert wildflowers and it’s DELICIOUS! It’s also quite a bargain for such a unique item.
Reed is doing as much for killer bees as Jacques Cousteau once did for sharks, reminding us that Nature is not our enemy, that we need to respect all animals, and that we can coexist harmoniously.
TIP: If you are attacked by killer bees, cover your head with your shirt (they like to attack the head and neck), and run as fast as you can in a straight line, not in a zigzag as is commonly believed.