Most honey, especially in heavily developed countries or mass production countries (ie America :P ) produce honey by feeding bees on sugar water! (Here is your corn sugar at work again). It produces a sub-lime honey that is put into all sorts of things. This is done because the bees can be contained and feed in a systematic way to produce a consistent product. This is also leading to problems with diseases in bees etc (You mean intense farming is bad?)
Anyhow! I am an up and coming brewer of drinks that make people happy and invite discussions on such topics as this and help to add to the population through unintended sexual relations.
One of those drinks is Mead. Honey, water, yeast, and some acid. Easy right? Sounds boring. I mean... Beer has tons of varieties! Pale Ale, Wheat Beer, Porters, Red Ales, and so on! Mead is just honey, can't be much in the way of things to do there? Sure you can add crap to the honey but its all based on Honey.
Well sorry to say but Honey can be so varied it surprises me still. The smell and the flavor are completely different based on what the bees have been collecting from.
Each of these honey's is collected from hives working on different kind of environments. Macadamia trees, Garden Flowers, Bush Honey (Rain forest trees), etc. And as I said before each of these is so different from the next it is quite amazing.
So next time you are looking at honey in the supermarket have a closer look - it should say what kind of flower the honey primarily comes from. If it does not, corn sugar honey - YAWN.
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My in laws have hives on their property now, there is a big difference from store bought. Some also say eating honey from ones local area helps combat allergies.
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