Whats the best honey all [Archive] - Beesource Beekeeping Forums

naturebee

03-30-2008, 03:29 PM

Black Locust Honey is the best honey of all :)

Also known as Robinia Honey and Acacia Honey
It is among the finest honeys in the world.

It even says so here: ;)

http://www.mwrop.org/W_Needham/BlackLocust_060515.htm
“Honey produced by bees from Locust tree nectar is considered among the finest in the world”

Best Wishes,
Joe

Oldbee

03-30-2008, 03:57 PM

"is there a difference the [than?]sp. our old tired honey in Wisconsin. or the rest rest of the World". --paulnewbee1

old and,........tired honey in Wisconsin!!??? Shame on you.

We [Wisconsin] are in the top 10 of honey producing states! If our honey is "tired and old",.............................................?

OK, I admit I haven't tasted "tupelo" honey. Was that from some song about a "bridge" or something, or Elvis?

"Black Locust is the best honey of all" -naturebee.
Yes, we have Black Locust honey here also and blended with SWEET clover that is the best; with a "touch" of black raspberry! If you get the "supers off" in time.

I have often wondered about the different flavors of honey. At the farmers market's around here you will sometimes see honey "advertised" as,....."thistle",."pumpkin",...basswood,..wildflower and ,...others. I guess you would really have to have your colonies quite in the midst of the flowers producing the nectar in order to "claim" that it was such.

It would be interesting to actually taste the different honey sources.

Keith Benson

03-30-2008, 04:47 PM

My honey

Keith

dcross

03-30-2008, 04:49 PM

My honey

Keith

Nuh-uh! It's mine! And it ain't "tired"!

beehoppers

03-30-2008, 05:01 PM

Beehoppers Sourwood!

bleta12

03-30-2008, 05:07 PM

I like and eat the basswood/linden tree honey. The honey is very light in color. The bees collect it some time late June early July.

Gilman

Chef Isaac

03-30-2008, 05:15 PM

I am making honey sticks for bullseye bill and his early spring honey is AWESOME!

jean-marc

03-30-2008, 05:41 PM

Chef:

You're supposed to be making honey sticks with the man's honey, not eating it. I don't think I'd be advertising that too much, might not be good for business.:)

Jean-Marc

P.S. - How do I get that smiley guy to rear his face on this message?

Barry Digman

03-30-2008, 05:49 PM

I had some from Hawaii that was outstanding, but the best honey I ever had was the honey I gave to someone who didn't have any.

paulnewbee1

03-30-2008, 06:16 PM

I like the responses keep up the good work

Oldbee Oldbee
old and,........tired honey in Wisconsin!!??? Shame on you.

We [Wisconsin] are in the top 10 of honey producing states! If our honey is "tired and old",............................................. ?

OK, I admit I haven't tasted "tupelo" honey. Was that from some song about a "bridge" or something, or Elvis?

Paul Javins
Old bee is right Wisconsin is the best in the world I also have had honey from Nebraska Where I lived as a kid, it was the best. Until I came to Wisconsin. MB will agree ask him.

Sorry for all of you not from Wisconsin or Nebraska where real honest honey.

beegee

03-30-2008, 06:44 PM

The best honey is the one you like and/or the one your customer will buy.

okb

03-30-2008, 06:47 PM

I am making honey sticks for bullseye bill and his early spring honey is AWESOME!

Quality Assurance? :)

BULLSEYE BILL

03-30-2008, 08:21 PM

Quality Assurance? :)

Only the finest quality wax worms went into that batch. ;)

BULLSEYE BILL

03-30-2008, 08:23 PM

Chef Isaac

03-30-2008, 09:39 PM

I gotta try. Come on... it is my job! :)

It is like a kid in a candy store... gotta try it! :)

mdotson

03-30-2008, 09:57 PM

Sourwood and Orange Blossom. They taste different, but both of them are best I have tasted. I heard my older brother (now deceased) tell someone once that there was no better honey in the world than Sourwood honey. About a year later I took him some Orange Blossom honey, then at the next family reunion, I heard him tell someone that there was no better honey in the world than Sourwood honey and that Orange Blossom honey was just as good.

WVbeekeeper

03-30-2008, 10:12 PM

I like and eat the basswood/linden tree honey. The honey is very light in color. The bees collect it some time late June early July.

Gilman

In my area, those who know about local honey prefer basswood/linden, or "Linn Honey," which is what everyone refers to basswood honey as.

BULLSEYE BILL

03-30-2008, 11:04 PM

I gotta try. Come on... it is my job! :)

It is like a kid in a candy store... gotta try it! :)

Remember, 'Never ever lick your fingers in the honey house!'.

jjgbee

03-30-2008, 11:12 PM

The title says it all.

Aisha

03-31-2008, 12:01 AM

I sampled a bunch from ebay last year and I liked them in this order:

orange blossom
sourwood
pumpkin
clover

I didn't care for firewood honey.

Buckwheat honey tastes so bad I am giving it back to the bees.

Chef Isaac

03-31-2008, 08:00 AM

I had to take a break. Come on... filing 358 straws cant be done in one sitting. I am Union you know! :)

Aisha: I would say that not all buckwheat tastes the same. There is light buckwheat and dark buckwheat.

nc_beekeeper

03-31-2008, 08:12 AM

Sourwood... hands down the best! :)

Ardilla

03-31-2008, 11:05 AM

Buckwheat honey tastes so bad I am giving it back to the bees.

IMHO buckwheat is one of the best. One person's trash is another's treasure and all that...

Ross

03-31-2008, 12:47 PM

I find the native wildflower honey we get is quite good. It varies from year to year. During the drought a couple of years ago it was mostly lemon mint (horse mint) and had a mildly citrus flavor that was very nice. Last year it was more floral (with a hint of cherries, oak and chocolate :), wine humor).

JAK

03-31-2008, 01:19 PM

We got a jar of Leatherwood Honey from Tasmanian honey co. as a gift. My wife, not a big honey eater, ate half of it before I knew what happened. It was really good.

My daughter and I are big fans of the dark Buckwheat honey. It kind of reminds me of Guiness beer, the dark smoky flavor of buckwheat honey. It's also the type of honey recommended to soothe coughing and sore throats.

Anyway, do we have any leatherwood trees around in the US? That was a very tasty honey, but not as good as comb to me. Bad packaging in a metal jar that can cause an off flavor, but for $13.50/lb, what do you want from Amazon? Free shipping? That's expensive honey.

JAK

power napper

03-31-2008, 01:37 PM

Bizzybee has fantastic gum/poplar honey so thick you can fill cracks in pavement--and it is a superb taste also.
River Rat has nice cotton honey.
Fusion Power has superb Sourwood honey.
Honeyman has great wildflower honey.
And of course my bees honey is fantastic.
As far as the best honey--I am not yet qualified to answer that question, there is a lot of different honeys to be tasted yet.

JoeMcc

03-31-2008, 02:32 PM

I am making honey sticks for bullseye bill and his early spring honey is AWESOME!

Samples? Bill wont care...

I like fireweed if im in the mood for light honey.

JoeMcc

BGhoney

03-31-2008, 09:59 PM

I've only tried about 10 kinds, still like my blackberry best. Had dark buckwheat kinda strong for my likes. We have a huge blackberry flow here. Does anyone else have black berries, I know they wont take the dry weather but are they in the real cold states?

dcross

04-01-2008, 04:45 PM

Have them here, not like in the Seattle area though:)

Matt K

04-01-2008, 05:22 PM

Hands down no questions asked and it sends a chill up and down my spine.
For me the best honey I have ever had was my first harvest. Remember that first super... such a blessing... I can't wait to see the first apple blossom of the year. I did try some crocus honey last Friday from a hive in the back yard light and yummy.

Matt

Oldbee

04-01-2008, 05:30 PM

"Crocus honey"?? Well,...that's a new one. There must be A LOT of,.. "crocus flowers" around for that. Well, Ok, it's Colorado.

lstclair

04-01-2008, 05:36 PM

Someone told me this week that tupelo honey is the best, is there a difference the our old tired honey in Wisconsin. or the rest of the World

The best honey is the stuff that comes out of my hives, of course.

Silly question, dude.

peletier

04-01-2008, 07:56 PM

The best honey is any honest, local, unadulterated variety that gives you a taste of the immediate vicinity. Manipulating supers to isolate a specific nectar is really cool....so we know what tupelo, buckwheat, and sourwood honeys taste like. But I prefer the naturally blended varieties with their changing makeups from year to year.

Here at the coast, I detect a certain "tang" that I attribute to our unique vegetation, salt marshes, and relatively mild climate. My mouth is watering as I write this.

trapperbob

04-01-2008, 08:23 PM

the best honey would be the one you had the most difficulty retreaving from your bees. The harder you work for it the better it seems to taste.:D

beemandan

04-02-2008, 06:41 AM

In 2005 Carl and Virginia Webb from Clarkesville, GA took some of their sourwood honey to Dublin Ireland for Apimondia. They entered it in the international honey contest and won first place.....in the world.
Its hard to argue with that.

Ross

04-02-2008, 09:33 AM

I wasn't there with mine, so it wasn't the whole world :)

ScadsOBees

04-02-2008, 11:58 AM

I haven't tried a lot of different honey, but the leatherwood honey my dad brought back from Tasmania was very good, unique!

There is a honey for every occasion! Some flavors of honey are best on bread, some are best in tea, some are best on bananas, etc. By the spoonful my summer honey is the best, though.

Matt K

04-02-2008, 04:39 PM

"Crocus honey"?? Well,...that's a new one. There must be A LOT of,.. "crocus flowers" around for that. Well, Ok, it's Colorado.
I have not seen any other flowers just crocus and daffodils. I just saw the first dandelions a few days ago. What elese could it be this early? I have a strong colony that was making honey 3 weeks ago I could smell it. I threw on a drawn super and last Friday I took a look and taste yum.

tig

04-02-2008, 04:52 PM

i find the best honey is made from the colopogonium plant. very light colored honey and not too sweet.

peletier

04-02-2008, 06:58 PM

I have not seen any other flowers just crocus and daffodils. I just saw the first dandelions a few days ago. What elese could it be this early? I have a strong colony that was making honey 3 weeks ago I could smell it. I threw on a drawn super and last Friday I took a look and taste yum.

Don't assume that all nectar has to come from flowers. Around here the main source of our early flow is budding maple trees. Later on it is gallberry, a small shrub growing in the woods ,with very tiny non-showy flowers.

Matt K

04-02-2008, 07:43 PM

Don't assume that all nectar has to come from flowers. Around here the main source of our early flow is budding maple trees. Later on it is gallberry, a small shrub growing in the woods ,with very tiny non-showy flowers.

I am a computer technician for a living I assume very little, and on the good days I assume nothing.

The Maple tree in my yard as well as the other varieties in my neighborhood have just started to bud but no bees on them yet. I am quite sure gallberry is not a major nectar source in my location. Yes indeed I decided to look in the new ABC and XYZ of Bee culture and "Gallberry is a major honey plant in the southeastern part of the U.S." I live in Colorado. Hey I am skeptical about crocus too and I have no other ideas about where they are getting it. Someone else probably knows more about maples but I think those are still technically flowers the bees are getting nectar from.

Cheers,
Matt

Bud Dingler

04-03-2008, 07:15 PM

also called Basswood. Tastes like my first kiss when I was 14yo

delicate, sexy, flowery with a hint of mint.

Troy

04-03-2008, 11:16 PM

I think this whole conversation is funny because it depends on the individual as to what is best. Some say Tupelo is best because it is light and it doesn't granulate. I personally think it doesn't taste all that good.

I have noticed that my honey palate has expanded quite a lot in the merely 3 years that I have been beekeeping. I try more varieties of honey and I get to try others honey too. I have constantly been amazed by the fact that the public prefers lighter colored and flavored honey, and I now find them just plain and boring. I need something in the honey to pique my interest.

I love a wildflower variety that I cannot describe or name for someone. They are many times unique and that is the part I find most interesting. If they were all the same, I would just buy your honey and give up beekeeping.

"Variety is the spice of life" as the saying goes. I am convinced it is true.