Just extracted very dark honey.

[peterbees]

I suggest it is probably honeydew. My bees occasionally collect it.
In my experience, any early season honey, eg. sycamore or hawthorn will have been eaten by the bees long ago, and replaced with summer honey.
In a good season (like this year) here in north Wales my summer honey is nearly all light, from blackberry and lime. In an average season, my honey is medium, from whatever they can get.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Red honey?
Japanese Knotweed.

 

[beeno]

You may have a Liriodendron tulipifera tree, or cultivar in the area. Its known to give a dark reddish, fairly strong honey, and the tree produces copious amounts of nectar.

I stood looking at one of those the other day! However, my honey is not strong at all.

 

[beeno]

I suggest it is probably honeydew. My bees occasionally collect it.
In my experience, any early season honey, eg. sycamore or hawthorn will have been eaten by the bees long ago, and replaced with summer honey.
In a good season (like this year) here in north Wales my summer honey is nearly all light, from blackberry and lime. In an average season, my honey is medium, from whatever they can get.

The only local honeydew I have seen was dark brown to black. Looked horrible. I could not sell that!

 

[beeno]

ITLD and EricA, Two votes for Japanese Knotweed. I have seen some of this, I think, in the distance thinking it was Jasmine. However, flowering time is end August to September in the UK? Also, is it particularly viscous and does it crystalise quickly? Hmm

 

[Erichalfbee]

Some flowering here at Aberystwyth

 

[beeno]

Some flowering here at Aberystwyth

OK I take that. Many thanks

 

[beeno]

It sounds like Japanese Knotweed honey. The reddish tinge held up to the light is a good indicator to consider that source. If there is enough and the weather is hot they can cart it in...

I am more confident now that it is Japanese Knotweed honey otherwise called Bamboo honey by the Americans, as Mudsong shows the pollen to be white and my colonies have collected a lot of that pollen! This honey is from a few frames on one hive getting it ready for treatment only 12 lbs. Perhaps there is more to come!
Many thanks for taking the time to post in your busy schedule.