No, the top layer is still like heather honey should be. Thick and no graininess at all. There sometimes is some runny honey in the frames that I spin out first. If some of that was left in the heather honey would that separate out or stay mixed in with it?
The honey in the picture looks like it is fermenting.
No taste of fermentation yet but maybe that's what's beginning. I have people asking for heather honey for its health properties, so trying to keep it as pure as possible, so can't really blend it with anything. Would love to make soft set honey , but our honey round here seems to take forever to crystallise.
There seldom is I find with heather honey -it will however ferment at the drop of a hat
it's not separation as such - it's just the honey fizzing
Didn't think it was fermentation when I couldn't taste it. I stirred it in buckets for a few weeks with a dehumidifier until it was 18.5% so thought it was safe enough.This happened to me a couple of years ago. Stored in a plastic box in a cool room. Noticed about half inch of runny honey in the bottom of the box - about 20 jars had fermented- really annoying but gave to friends and used for cooking as it tasted fine..I thought it was water content which makes it ferment? Frames absorb water from the air so a delay in extraction may have been the problem
How are you reducing the water content?
Probably but as soon as you Thor it would ?
Honey cabinet and warming mats/ fans
Plus agitation/ sturing
yes, then defrost when needed
Absolutely. It stops everything dead, fermentation and crystallisation.
