At long long last!

[Poly Hive]

I demonstrated the spin dryer to a friend this afternoon and the honey was very minty in flavour. Our friends had a taste and loved it.

My darling wife had a taste and liked it.........

So, says you?

"I don't like honey" has been her mantra for 15 years, despite me saying that like beer you just have to find one you like.........

She has, she actually said "I like this" WOOOOOOO

A happy PH!

 

[justsmith]

Now just to find the flower which gave it the taste and plant 1000s of them?

 

[Beefriendly]

Minty honey taste is very characteristic of Lime honey.
Only PH knows what nectar sources he has near him..

 

[linoleum bonypart]

I've found lime trees in my area now to get hives closer

 

[Poly Hive]

No lime trees that I know of around here and when I had a massive lime crop at East Mids airport it certainly had no mint that I could taste.

Said "honey" is now diluted and being fed back to the bees as it was uncapped and very wet, so spun it out and recycled. The cost of moving bees at very short notice, and removing uncapped supers to enable that.

PH

 

[Repwoc]

Let's hope your missus still likes it after it's been re-processed.

 

[Beefriendly]

Said "honey" is now diluted and being fed back to the bees as it was uncapped and very wet, so spun it out and recycled. The cost of moving bees at very short notice, and removing uncapped supers to enable that.

PH

Why not simply put the uncapped supers back onto the hives after moving them?
Seems a bit of a faff to extract it all and then feed it back to them.
KISS

 

[Poly Hive]

That was an option yes but I have done it this way by way of an experiment and it's looking good. 10 litres gone in under 18 hours. Also at the back of my mind is that the season here is tapering off and there is a real risk that there will not be enough of a flow to finish off supers, especially rather wet ones. I hope to be proven wrong but it's getting late in the year now.

PH

 

[Angularity]

Minty honey taste is very characteristic of Lime honey.
Only PH knows what nectar sources he has near him..

Interesting. I thought the honey from one site tasted minty, but assumed it was from the peppermint growing round the local pond, not the lime trees surrounding the apiary.

 

[BMH]

I'm really not keen on minty tasting honey! Not for me I'm afraid.

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[Poly Hive]

LOL that's fine as it's not on offer.

PH

 

[BMH]

LOL that's fine as it's not on offer.



PH

Just saying. Tastes like I've eaten honey after brushing my teeth

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[roche]

I find sainfoin (sp?) gives a slightly minty taste. Had a really good crop one year.

 

[Camey]

I demonstrated the spin dryer to a friend this afternoon and the honey was very minty in flavour. Our friends had a taste and loved it.

My darling wife had a taste and liked it.........

So, says you?

"I don't like honey" has been her mantra for 15 years, despite me saying that like beer you just have to find one you like.........

She has, she actually said "I like this" WOOOOOOO

A happy PH!

Just in from a full inspection, x2 hives this inspection was how I hoped they would be before I started beekeeping, last couple were a bit grumpy ( stung twice) but this time calm as cucumbers. And the best bit... for the first time ,I had a wee sample of their hard earned honey, not minty in taste but a sweet flowery taste,Im biased but really looking forward to a nice full super or 10 next year!

 

[ShinySideUp]

Said "honey" is now diluted and being fed back to the bees as it was uncapped and very wet, so spun it out and recycled. The cost of moving bees at very short notice, and removing uncapped supers to enable that.

PH

Just keep them and put them under the brood boxes in October. That's what I do every year, saves feeding almost completely and when I take them off in late March they are cleaned up and ready to go back on the top for the next season.

 

[Poly Hive]

Missing the point. I am getting them to put the honey into comb again. It's not for feeding.

PH

 

[Jambo]

No lime trees that I know of around here and when I had a massive lime crop at East Mids airport it certainly had no mint that I could taste.

I’ve got minty honey here from hives under lime trees and a super filled in a week when they were in peak flower and it was muggy - other local beekeepers reporting the same thing. You must have some somewhere I reckon!

 

[Poly Hive]

When I had a massive Lime crop at EMA I honestly cannot say there was a mint taste to it.

PH

 

[enrico]

I agree, my 500lbs of lime honey year had no mint taste at all! Well, not my pallete anyway!
E

 

[Beefriendly]

Very strange as it's one of the characteristic tasting notes. The only lime honey I have tried was minty.

So if neither yours nor PH was minty...one has to ask what was it?