I've just gotten some loose leaf earl gray tea. Pretty sure I'll never use tea bags again. Do you have an all time favorite honey? Is it available online?

Wildflower/ Blackberry/ Orange Blossom.

Checked my hive a couple of weeks back. Had a frame break, they were just starting to cap honey cells on it. Really light honey, very mild flavor. Bees have been hitting the dandelions in the lawn and garden area hard, so maybe it was dandelion honey.

I don't buy honey online, we get ours local and hopefully within a year or two will be getting it from our own bees.

Rocky Mountain Ambrosia. Bring some back every time we go to our place up in Colorado.

Flave’s mom has a tasty honey pot.....Wrong thread ?

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Tupelo

I just buy from local beekeepers.
I'm no fan of clover as it's kinda boring.
My favorite is wildflower, which is a general expression for whatever is in season that happens to be dark in color and a stronger flavor. Flowers vary from region and month so it all depends. Buckwheat is the last around here and is pretty good.
Some keepers take whatever is left in the fall and mix it.

It's all a delicacy if it's raw, unheated and unprocessed.
Specs of pollen make it much better IMHO. Unfortunately, this is the most expensive.

Keep in mind that some large commercial companies add corn syrup.

True to my first tag line, I have never been a fan of honey.

Sourwood from N.C mountains.

From my hives!
When conditions allow a harvest of pure bigleaf maple honey it's pretty damn good. Kind of a rare event here.

Fireweed.

Fireweed honey is hard to beat. Hard to get also.
Getting ready to spin this years bee take out. Unfortunately it was not a good fireweed year for my area.

Mesquite

I get it from the locals. Never know what it will taste like. I've had some taste like raw green tobacco, won't bad just a little more on the bitter side. Used most of that one in BBQ sauce.

Natural buckwheat honey, because it enhances flavor of coffee. That is the only reason I use honey.

I enjoy whatever my bees happen to be producing at the time.

I really like the local gall berry honey, and the orange blossom honey

Honey Wilder

JFC

Lmfao

Buckwheat

Tupelo 🍯 honey

Thanks that's the one I was trying to remember. I got that years ago from a local bee keeper. Great stuff.

I favor Goldenrod.

Mesquite is awesome. It has a very good flavor.

The gold standard.

Guajillo honey from around Uvalde, TX is considered right up there too. https://uvalde-honey.com/honey-store-1/ols/products/uvalde-honey-16-ounce-jar/v/VLD-HNY-16-NC

Yep

I don’t know if it can be ordered on-line but my favorite is Golden Angels Apiary out of Singers Glen, Virginia. Unfiltered Meadow Clover. This stuff is too good.

Our bees are working on Goldenrod and Ironweed right now. Pretty soon the bee yard will be smelling like dirty gym socks as the honey cures. Fortunately is tastes a whole lot better than it smells.

The man likes his corn syrup.

I buy Ricks honey, it's awesome!! worth the $ to ship it here

Local Sourwood Honey .

Mad Honey. Harvested at about 3000meters in the Himalayas.

Love Leatherwood, but don't have it very often due to cutting down on sugar.

For the win.

Haha!

From bees that live in a locomotive shaped hive.

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Who knew?

Ellijay honey baked ham .

Yeah, some people might actually like instant coffee too.....

Cheap.

Sourwood from the Cumberland Plateau.

Me too.

That said I pulled of some Big Leaf Maple this year and it is sublime.

Alfalfa

Beeweaver.com
Navasota, Texas, since 1888, 5 generations, delicious honey.

Whichever kind my bees choose to produce! memtb

Grandpa's wildflower honey from Clackamas County Oregon, about 1000' elevation. RIP

I knew this chick in college who.....

local wildflower darker honey with lots of flavor

I get it from local farms that have bees. Much better and cheaper than what you can get in a store.

Mine neither. Too cold and rainy on the AKPEN this so-called "summer". Last couple of years every open area was pinkish purple.

I'll be retiring in the next few months and moving north . I hope to be contributing to the supply in a couple years at the hobby level.

I want to try making mead with it.

Glad you are enjoying it!

Mesquite

What is another honey that is close to being as dark and strong as buckwheat?

Goldenrod.

Thanks!

I really like dark honey, but all the stuff local here is lighter. Not that ANY honey is bad mind you, but I do like that dark strong flavor of buckwheat.

Try the stuff that comes off the orange groves in Florida. Almost like molasses.

I favor cotton honey. Hard to get now that they most plant varieties with no nectaries.

The Goldenrod honey is dark, stronger tasting, and has a bit of a "bite" to it going down.

Sourwood is easily the best honey I have ever had. Tupelo a distant second.

Sourwood

My 4 favorites are Orange Blossom, Fireweed, Sourwood and Tupelo. Except for orange blossom, I've found you have to buy it close to the source or you are likely to get a mixed variety that most likely isn't as advertised. Especially common with Tupelo, but easy to confirm if it crystalizes. I've been enjoying Stoked Fireweed out of Homer. It appears to be the real deal!

Huajillo

Love it. Better than mesquite IMO. Its an acacia.

Used to get it from coworkers dad who robbed his own hives on deer lease he managed some where down around Eagle Pass or Del Rio. Don’t remember which. They all ded now.

They honey that they give me by the half gallon pail is the best.

Pure Mountain Wildflower Honey from southwest Colorado.

My wife.

So do I.

Yep

Shania Twain

A local bee man has hives here on the farm. He gives us several gallons a year. Since we have many acres of soybeans i suspect most, if not all the pollen comes from the beans. No idea how far bees travel for pollen.

Fugging azzclowns .
Hit this thread.
See this bullschitt.
Looking back to see where in dee fugg did I post that stupid schit???

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The popeyes chit with their bisquits, bout my pinky in the air experience with honey...
Or KFC....

Couple of miles.

Miles gave my daughter a pint jar of the honey from his hive a few years ago, I don't know what variety, but it was the best honey we've ever had. Perhaps he'll be along to give us the skinny.

I too agree with Tupelo honey from the Tupelo trees in Florida. Orange blossom is also good.

It’s pretty dang good stuff!

We just got some from New Mexico that was made after a desert flower bloom. Best ever.

Next to that our honey in Montana during a sweet clover year is excellent.

I have used honey in my tea for decades, and I've pretty much found that anything but a mostly clover honey doesn't do well in hot drinks. I like about any honey on toast or biscuits, but when you heat it, things come out that aren't usually noticeable. Most anything but Clover, to me, tastes way too aromatic and flowery, and overpowers the tea. I've tried a bunch, but always come back to clover. Everybody has different tastes.

I've used up most of the orange blossom honey I ordered online. Good stuff. A honey dipper with pot showed up today. I had some store brand raw honey on the shelf so I filled it up with that. No where near as good. No more bargain brand honey for me.

Our bees are working goldenrod big time right now. You can smell the goldenrod honey curing 100+ yards away.

My favorite when I can find it is locust. It is light and ever so delightful.

Im sure it exists somewhere, but I can say I’ve personally never had any bad honey. Its all pretty damn tasty.

My grandfather, who died in late 70s, had hives.
His bees made really good honey except one year he got really sick and he could not get some work done on the farm.
One of his fields, which had no animals on it and grew no crops, grew up in bitterweed.
The honey made that summer was sweet and bitter and odiferous at the same time.
His health continued declining and the hives were sold/given to someone else.

Truth. Even that honey in the squeezy bear thingy. 😆

What about the honey in the Bojangles ‘ketchup’ packs?

lol

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“Fuggin azzclowns” all I did was laugh. Lolol

Get it from a local vendor with their own hives and it is always good. Sometimes it is a lighter color others such as the last very dark.

No one ever brags about cantaloupe blossom honey.

When we had bees they worked on the sweet and red clover on my headlands. Made for very sweet and very clear honey.

Local sourwood honey.

Basswood honey is really good.

Wish we had flow amounts of goldenrod around here. Just a sporadic patch of Canadian goldenrod here and there.

My favorite honey....I married her 54 years ago!!

Sweet[white] clover

If everyone hadn't already had their fill of it you might find more interest.