Halen Mon Sea Salt 250g

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Groups Accepted - We can accommodate groups of between 14 and 24 by arrangement (Monday - Friday), and up to 40 at weekends. This year, using the pure water generated as a by-product of our sea salt harvesting process, we are the first company in Wales to offer a bespoke outdoor bathing experience, celebrating the unparalleled view. Don your costume and soak in your own warm private barrel, with mineral dense seaweed. We were asked to compare different salts. It was quite interesting to try their spiced salt and their smoked salt. The tour ended with us being given a little pot of Halen Môn sea salt to take away. And a bottle of water to keep us hydrated! Every day a pipeline takes fresh seawater from the Menai Strait into the factory. Here. after filtering through sand and charcoal, the water is heated to create a concentrated brine. This is left in shallow salt pans, where crystals form and sink to the bottom. Each morning, the salt flakes are carefully harvested using large shovels. The salt crystals are then washed in a cold saturated brine process to remove any unwanted carbonates. When the crystals are dried for the final time they produce a flaky crystal sea salt, which sparkles like newly fallen snow. The Halen Môn range has 10 salts, including one smoked over oak chips, one infused with vanilla, an Unami salt spice mixture and one made with charcoal.

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Today, Halen Môn is enjoyed around the world by chefs and food lovers who marvel at the unique, flat crystalline flakes and clean taste of the Anglesey sea water, unmarred by any bitterness caused by excess calcium which can occur in other salts. Anglesey Sea Salt is derived from the Menai straits pure sea water which is naturally prefiltered through a sand bank and a mussel bank. As a testimony to the cleanliness of the water, even seahorses from the nearby zoo, which are famously fussy about their environment, take to the waters to breed. In addition to a home for our hand-harvesting process, our building has a contemporary, design-led gift shop, with plenty of parking for both cars and bikes. We turned up on the wrong day for the seaweed bath and they were so lovely and accommodating. Thankfully they fitted us in. This was an exceptional experience, my skin feels amazing and it was so relaxing.

Mike led our tour and he was good at explaining the manufacturing process, with good humour. The tasting part was very interesting and really highlighted why Halen Môn salt is so good. We then bought some as well as other lovely items from their shop. We also heard very positive things from other visitors about the seaweed baths and that’s definitely on the list to try on a return visit. Led by a trained guide the tour includes a tutored salt tasting and lasts approximately 50 minutes, the experience will offer visitors a real flavour of our company, and a chance to chat with members of staff. Tours usually run twice a day, Wednesday – Sunday 11am and 3pm

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An innovative artisan food company that lets visitors look behind the scenes of a family business, has a contemporary, design-led gift shop and, new for 2023, offers Wild Seaweed Bathing. Open by appointment outside normal opening times - We can accommodate evening tours for groups of up to 40 by arrangementTourism is very seasonal. We were doing well in the summer months, but we wanted to employ the staff whom we’d otherwise have to lay off in winter. So we looked for other things to do with the sea water and came up with sea salt. In countryside - Our saltcote is located on the shores of the Menai Strait in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In light of recent press regarding other British sea salts, and in response to the numerous enquiries we have received, we just wanted to re-iterate how we make our own award winning sea salt. Whilst children are welcome to join the tour, it is primarily designed for adults. The charge for 8 years plus reflects this.

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Approx length of visit - Tours and tutored tasting take about 50 minutes, but leave time to browse around our design-led shop. Salt, like bread, is the staff of life. At Halen Môn they pride themselves on producing the purest sea salt you can buy. Halen Môn salt is the brainchild of husband and wife entrepreneur team Alison and David Lea-Wilson. They were already responsible for a successful seafood business and the Anglesey Sea Zoo (next door in Brynsiencyn). They were seeking a new enterprise and saw a niche in the food market for gourmet salt. The shop adjoining the factory in Anglesey sells a huge array of their products, which not only includes salt but also smoked water, sauces, honey and gifts.Halen Môn is made from 100% pure seawater drawn from the seas around Anglesey and absolutely nothing else. To be even more specific, we get our seawater from the designated area of the Menai Strait in accordance with our Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status, laid down by the independent EU commission. Anglesey Sea Salt Welsh GI Food Story - Halen Mon Stori Bwyd GI Cymru | YouTube Video (k-P8N-XsMJ0)