Variations in honey quality

[Finman]

But then you can't sell it as English Honey......

Oh dear...

 

[Finman]

Me thinks you didn't
If you want soft set from rape "straight from the ectractor
Nice explanation of creaming....I use the abelo creamer... They need a cooling coil.

Oh dear...

 

[Beefriendly]

Oh dear...

You are beginning to sound like my wife....

 

[Beefriendly]

I wouldn't want to ... no-one would buy it here

Aye, that's true.

 

[enrico]

I always extract in small batches and give each a lot number.

My most common honey tends to be lime tinged.
Occasionally some early season dark Horse Chestnut is available.
Last couple of years 2 out apiaries have brought in Honeydew late in the season but not this year, very palatable thick dark strong flavoured honey, setting seems to take about 5 or 6 month at least.
Only once had a reasonable late Balsam honey about 6 year ago at least now.

Where are you hemo....no location on your avatar, just interested
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[hemo]

West Sussex.

 

[SDM]

Buy from Lidl soft multi flower honey. You get a good seed.

That's exactly what.i did about 5 yrs ago and you're right it's an excellent seed, great texture.

 

[Finman]

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And it is very soft and easy go mix with 5 kg honey . Then I started to make bigger doses. This year I made 100 kg seed honey . That I mixed with runny honey to get bottling mixture.

Honey from different apiaries had different qualities.

 

[Karsal]

I had a good crop of balsam honey last year and some of the jars are still runny and clear. One or two have started to go cloudy.
This years crop of balsam honey is not worth extracting and I've left the little there is for the bees.
The honey that I extracted in July is quite dark and has set in the buckets so will need to warm it to be able to jar it.
Overall though its been an exceptional year with the most honey I've ever had.

 

[Swarm]

Went to the Autumn show in Malvern today, nice selection of honey from Worcester beekeepers.