Anybody else keep a honey collection?

[Fletcher Knives]

All of these are labeled with who they came from, area, and date. I am an absolute honey freak. Coolest food in the world.

 

[willic]

I keep a bourbon collection!

Seriously.... so whats your favorite honey? I know little about honey, but seem to like the darker ones.

 

[Ulf Krogstad]

I too also like honey. Had a f*ckin miserable cold last two or three days coughing and sneezing my brains out have been consuming alot of apple cinnamon tea & honey. What's the best kind to look for? Never seen honey as dark as you have there. Makes me wanna walk to the store and see if they got some more premium stuff instead of the generic crap i've been using with corn syrup in it.

 

[D-R0CK]

It's funny, I kept bees to make some extra money in high school and the comparison to bourbon isn't unwarranted... The bees we kept in a lavender field had a very noticeable herb-iness to the honey that was spicy in the throat, it tasted really quite rich and "full-bodied". The honey was very dark, more purple than anything else. The bees raised on a blueberry farm produced a dark amber colored honey which was very sweet. It was slightly fruity, extremely sweet. The bees raised on a couple of fruit trees and wild blackberries produced the lightest colored honey, which was also the most like store-bought honey. It was very light and not as rich or sweet as the other honeys. There are definitely peculiarities in flavor to enjoy, and we had customers specifically seek out varieties from us from hundreds of miles away. Our honey is usually already spoken for before the season has even begun, and I could understand why you might collect or appreciate it. And that's to say nothing about its antibiotic properties or how useful it is in alleviating allergies.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

I don't really have a favorite. The dark stuff you see there was kind of a medium brown wildflower honey. It gets darker with age and changes flavor. The darkest stuff in there is from about 1986. Part of why I collect honey is so that it takes longer to finish off a single jar. Getting to sample them over the years and really taste the difference as it ages is a lot of fun. I tend to lean more towards the darker honeys for pairing with other foods, but the lighter more flowery honeys I like by themselves. You can really pick out almost every individual type of flower in them. My grandfather kept bees for my entire childhood and taught me everything there is to know about the stuff. Over the years I've tried honey from all over the world. There's a lot of interesting honeys from Australia. If you have a wholefoods site or something similar nearby, they're worth spending a little extra dough and trying.

 

[emoney2277]

I'm sure you know honey is also used to pack wounds as it is a natural antiseptic. Also interesting is that there is no way to synthetically produce honey. If something happened to all the bees, the honey would disappear as well. Sad to think.

 

[whitty]

I'm sure you know honey is also used to pack wounds as it is a natural antiseptic. Also interesting is that there is no way to synthetically produce honey. If something happened to all the bees, the honey would disappear as well. Sad to think.

Did not know Honey was a natural antiseptic. Thanks for sharing that very good info!

 

[mrdabble]

Honey (pure) kills pretty much every bacteria scientists throw at it. It never expires....it the miracle food. I have been interested in stockpiling some honey and now knowing about the differences in types it's even more intriguing.

I don't have a source on the antibacterial fact but I'm sure an internet search could yield the facts, especially since it has been used to pack wounds like emoney said.

 

[mrdabble]

Albert Einstein said if the honey bee population went extinct that humans would follow 4 years after. I hope he was wrong, because the honeybee population has been severely effected by the pesticides being used for farming. It interferes with the worker bees natural ability to find their way home, they become disoriented and lose their way and never make it back with the pollen. I'll find the source for that in anyone is interested.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

Yep. Honey is amazing. In my family, we were taught all about honey as children and taught its uses. It's crazy what all properties that honey has. Like was said, honey never goes bad if stored correctly. Honey was found in jars in tombs of ancient Egyptians and it was still good. It has incredible medicinal qualities. If society ever takes its last crap, honey is going to be worth more than gold, silver, precious stones, Yadda Yadda. It only works if it's raw honey though. Can't be anything processed our pasteurized. Processing kills all of the enzymes and stuff that makes honey work. The next time your allergies go nuts, eat three spoonfuls of local raw honey and watch what your body does. If you have a cut, put honey on it instead of neosporin. Seriously, the stuff is amazing.