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Title: Dark Honey
Post by: BMAC on August 20, 2007, 11:23:02 AM
So far all the honey I have extracted over the weekend has been extremely dark.  It also leans towards having a nutty flavor. 

Any ideas as to what they may have been collecting for the midwest states? 

Anyone else seeing that for the honey this year?
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: rdy-b on August 21, 2007, 12:39:50 AM
 :)   http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=9930.0
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: BMAC on August 21, 2007, 08:42:23 AM
That is what i suspected.  Thanks.
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: buzzbee on August 21, 2007, 07:49:00 PM
From what I,ve read,Japanese knotweed will make a slight walnut flavor in the honey.
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: doak on August 21, 2007, 08:13:09 PM
One of my  bee people at UGA told me it was Tulip poplar. If you didn's harvest any earlier, like in Mid. may to mid June then that is what it may be. Unless its honey locust or persimon.
I have those trees too.
Most likely tulip popular.
doak
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: BMAC on August 22, 2007, 10:55:12 AM
It is interesting.  It is a very very mild nut flavoring.  I brought it to my beer club last night and let some guys out there sample it.  The mead makers were excited and asked how much of it I have.
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: Bennettoid on August 22, 2007, 11:33:24 AM
Beer club?

We usually call them "bars" or "pubs".
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: BMAC on August 22, 2007, 11:38:11 AM
yeah we like the pubs too.  The beer club is a bunch of folks locally that like to make their own booze. 

Common saying around the club.  Bottle in front of me or frontal lobotomy.
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: Mici on August 23, 2007, 03:31:46 PM
just one question! which honeybees do you keep?
Title: Re: Dark Honey
Post by: BMAC on August 23, 2007, 04:43:48 PM
some are Buckfast.  Some are Italian.

Some are feral.