Best honey for flavor

[lytnin]

Brewed up a honey blonde/honey weisse as my last batch of the season. Threw a pound of honey in shortly after flameout during chilling and another pound after a week primary fermentation. The first pound was labelled as a “honey blend” and the second was wildflower honey. Drinking the final product now there is definitely “a flavor” that I’m guessing is from the honey (kind of a spicy pear flavor I guess? Very mild, not at all offensive) but is not quite what I was going/hoping for.

I think I definitely will brew this again this spring but I guess I want to get some kind of definitive contribution from the honey flavor-wise. What would be the best honey to use in a beer of this style? I know I have heard that clover is not a good choice and I’m not sold on an orange blossom flavored beer.

[fu_shen]

I brewed a honey wheat with clover honey and loved it. Tried wildflower and it’s alright. I like the strong flavor from the clover. Really gives a noticeable honey character. If you like the honey, you’ll probably like the beer.

[pietro]

meadowfoam. Worth every penny. You can get it on Amazon or shipped from some apiaries in Oregon for around $10/lb.

I’ve also found that it is better to add then honey at flameout if you are going for a balanced beer, like a nondescript ‘honey ale’, or honey kolsch (whatever the hell that is :mrgreen: ) that our sponsor sells

If you are going for a drier beer, such as an american/belgian/french/farmhouse style, it is better to add the honey, dissolved in boiled, cooled water a few days into fermentation. You will get a lower FG this way and still retain some of the honey’s aromatics.

[simple]

orange blossom

[rookie_l_a]

[quote=“Pietro”]meadowfoam. Worth every penny. You can get it on Amazon or shipped from some apiaries in Oregon for around $10/lb.
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Last year I got a three pound jar of meadowfoam at the Gresham (OR) farmers market for $15.

[pietro]

[quote=“Rookie L A”][quote=“Pietro”]meadowfoam. Worth every penny. You can get it on Amazon or shipped from some apiaries in Oregon for around $10/lb.
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Last year I got a three pound jar of meadowfoam at the Gresham (OR) farmers market for $15.[/quote]

Well how about shipping some to your east coast buddy instead of just gloating about then? :mrgreen:

[rookie_l_a]

[quote=“Rookie L A”][quote=“Pietro”]meadowfoam. Worth every penny. You can get it on Amazon or shipped from some apiaries in Oregon for around $10/lb.
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Last year I got a three pound jar of meadowfoam at the Gresham (OR) farmers market for $15.[/quote]

I’m not gloating (maybe a little). I live in Vancouver now and didn’t feel up to making the run to Gresham at the start of the market this year so I didn’t get any and don’t know if the price increased or even if any was available this year.

[r1]

+1 to Orange Blossom.