Granulation in Heather honey

[Curly green finger's]

Hi so looking at stock today half of the heather honey is starting to granulate, as this is my first for heather honey, anything I can do to make it jelly like again?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Melt it like any other. It must have a fair bit of blossom in it.
It will just crystallise again though. Soft set it or keep it in the freezer

 

[Ian123]

My heather granulates with big individual crystals. Warm as normal and keep in a warm place, bottle as required!

 

[Ian123]

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/my-heather-honey-is-crystallising-why.21844/

 

[Curly green finger's]

Thanks both and for the link Ian.
I will warm it as normal.
I didn't think it would work using ling honey as a seed? Maybe if it wasn't so pure?

 

[Jules59]

Hi so looking at stock today half of the heather honey is starting to granulate, as this is my first for heather honey, anything I can do to make it jelly like again?View attachment 28988

Are you sure its not fermenting - those look like bubbles to me, not the usual crystallising picture I'm familiar with.
Do you know the water content ?

 

[Wilco]

Are you sure its not fermenting - those look like bubbles to me, not the usual crystallising picture I'm familiar with.
Do you know the water content ?

The bubbles are probably because it's heather honey.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Are you sure its not fermenting - those look like bubbles to me, not the usual crystallising picture I'm familiar with.
Do you know the water content ?

18.6% water content the sample in the photo.
Even the Heather honey that wasn't capped this season was 19.2 which is still fine.
I have lime honey that is 19.5 and hasn't fermented.
All my honey is stored at 8/10 c in a cellar.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Melt it like any other. It must have a fair bit of blossom in it.
It will just crystallise again though. Soft set it or keep it in the freezer

The Heather is I would say around 75% pure, I've taken samples and sent them of for analysis.

 

[Ian123]

Are you sure its not fermenting - those look like bubbles to me, not the usual crystallising picture I'm familiar with.
Do you know the water content ?

Those large bubbles are a common sign in heather! I’d suggest the temperature your storing at is fine for buckets but once bottled warm room temperature is better.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I didn't think it would work using ling honey as a seed

I doubt it will. The point of soft set is to seed the honey with a small crystal
Did you have some set ling that you ground down?
I used blossom honey. Worked perfectly

 

[Curly green finger's]

I doubt it will. The point of soft set is to seed the honey with a small crystal
Did you have some set ling that you ground down?
I used blossom honey. Worked perfectly

No ling ground down dani.
Im about to make 90lbs of soft set with some osr.
Also found some tubs of osr from 2019 in the freezer to use which I didn't know i had.
When you say blossom do you mean spring honey like dandelion etc?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

dandelion not a good idea for seed - you'll end up with exceptionally crunchy honey

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Melt it like any other. It must have a fair bit of blossom in it.

especially as it has such a low w/c

 

[Finman]

Buy from a market one bottle of fine crystall honey, and start the soft set from that.

 

[Ian123]

He’s got OSRjust use that, you won’t get much finer/better!

 

[Finman]

He’s got OSRjust use that, you won’t get much finer/better!

It depends, is it fine. OSR use to be coarse, if you do not handle it.

 

[Curly green finger's]

It depends, is it fine. OSR use to be coarse, if you do not handle it.

It is fine and smooth on the tong

 

[Finman]

It is fine and smooth on the tong

Ok, it is then.

 

[Curly green finger's]

Ok, it is then.

This will only be the third time I've made soft set, the first time it ended up being grainy but I think I didn't process it right.
More than one way to do it but mbcs method which he only briefly explained works well.