Dark Honey

BMAC · 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?

rdy-b · August 21, 2007, 12:39:50 AM

:) http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=9930.0

BMAC · August 21, 2007, 08:42:23 AM

That is what i suspected. Thanks.

buzzbee · August 21, 2007, 07:49:00 PM

From what I,ve read,Japanese knotweed will make a slight walnut flavor in the honey.

doak · 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

BMAC · 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.

Bennettoid · August 22, 2007, 11:33:24 AM

Beer club?

We usually call them "bars" or "pubs".

BMAC · 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.

Mici · August 23, 2007, 03:31:46 PM

just one question! which honeybees do you keep?

BMAC · August 23, 2007, 04:43:48 PM

some are Buckfast. Some are Italian.

Some are feral.