Favorite type of honey

[bwallace23350]

Your favorite type of honey. Mine would have to be Tuepelo Honey. I am not so sure if it is the best honey taste wise but it is to me because it is the honey I grew up with. Its like an old friend. My grandfather also took a spoonful a day of it.

[mtnb]

I've never had tuepelo honey but can't wait to try it. :) It sounds very special. I really like all types of honey. I really like creamed honey and I'm in love with comb honey since I've never had it before I had my own hives. I love chewing the wax after.  Tastewise...I wish I could attend a honey tasting where you would try some and then were told of its origin. To me, my Belize honey is by far the best tasting honeys I've ever had.  Must be those exotic flowers and trees I'm not used to. :)

[Rurification]

1st favorite - anything my bees make.  :)
Taste favorite - Black Locust honey.   Unbelievable - light and floral. 

[bwallace23350]

I would love to try the black locust honey. In Wewahika Florida they have a honey festival every year. I will try to make it this year and get a variety. I just talked to our managers daughter in Florida. The first weekend in November she is going to go home and she will bring me back some Tupelo Honey. She goes to school near where I live

[Michael Bush]

Hard to beat tupelo... but sourwood is very good.  I actually buy tupelo and sourwood even though I have plenty of honey... occasionally I buy some other interesting things like thyme or eucalyptus.  But I get a lot of honey from people who give it to me and I like almost all of it.  Anything that doesn't have a bitter or mediciney aftertaste I like.

[bwallace23350]

I would like to try some lavender honey one day and other exotic honey. I tend to buy honey from places I visit though. I have to try this sourwood honey one day.

[Spur9]

Sourwood honey is my favorite.

I grew up in southeast Tennessee right above the north Georgia mountains.  I never appreciated local honey (mainly sourwood) until I moved away from home.  Now I get a pint jar from my mom for Christmas.  Best present each year.

I have gravitated towards the darker honey's recently.  Not sure what my first crop will be next year.  Although I am 99.9% certain that it won't be sourwood, I sure am looking forward to it.

[bwallace23350]

I am not sure what my crop will look like next year either. I am highly curious. I am in a field and there is lots of clover so it will have that going for it and might make it be a lighter honey but my fruit trees often break before the clover big time so perhaps they will add some unique twists to it.

[mtnb]

Hm I guess I'll have to put black locust on my list of honeys to try. lol Someone gave me some honey for Christmas one year and it was black truffle acacia honey. Weird. Lol Acacia already has ThAt flavor, you know, and infused with the truffle...just strange. Maybe over cheese? but I just don't like it.  I've had lavender honey but just the store kind. lol When I was growing up, my one german grandma always had "Tannen Honig". Pine Honey. It was pretty good. You could taste the forest. lol I just recently learned that it's basically just sugar and actual pine needles boiled into a syrup. lol

I agree with you Robin. Anything my bees make is Awesome!

[Barlon]

My favorite honey is from my native stingless bee hives its completely different from any other honey I've ever tasted.

As for store bought I like almost any honey if the bees make it I like it.

[BeeMaster2]

My favorite honey is my summer honey. Very floral and very good.
Jim

[Jim134]

Combl Honey.. Next would be creamed honey.


      BEE HAPPY Jim 134

[bwallace23350]

I am not sure if I have ever eaten or creamed or comb honey

[MimbresBees]

My fave is the Peruvian Honey from stingless bees down in the Amazon, best in the world. I go down 2-3 time a year to Iquitos, Peru.
Next favourite is from my own bees in Oregon, June harvest pure Blackberry, and this years Tupelo I was able to buy from a FB user.

[Joe D]

So far, I haven't had any that was bad, some is different, there are numerous colors, aroma and flavors.  There used to be a beek that live close moved his hives and would have lots of varieties.  I like the sourwood, tupelo, clover, privy hedge, gallberry, and all the rest I have got to try so far.  But like some have said, it is especially good when your bees made it.
Would like to have some of those stingless bees

Joe D

[bwallace23350]

Does stingless honey have a different taste and texture compared to honeybee honey?

[MimbresBees]

Does stingless honey have a different taste and texture compared to honeybee honey?

it's sweeter and extremely floral imo and more liquid, it's used in lots of amazonian medicines, very little pure honey gets to consumers. much used as a sweetener in foods, medicines and in making sugar cane alcohol called aguardente in Iquitos.
we work with a few locals in the region and in july and sept they bring us the little they harvest and we pay a premium price
to them. stingless bees produce very little honey per hive, maybe 350ml more or less at most. the most I've seen
is about was just under 750ml. the honey is harvested by cutting down trees they find and then the bees are just left to die. This summer was been the first I have tried to explain what beekeeping is about, it's hard to change a whole cultures attitude and they way they have done things for the last 100+yrs since the rubber boom came and destroyed their way of living.

[bwallace23350]

Hopefully you can change that. If you ever have any extra you want to sell though I will gladly buy some.