I brewed the NB Honey Kolsch three weeks ago. At the last second I chucked the Minnesota honey they use and substituted locally made Wisconsin light honey made all naturally, etc, from a co-op. I also tossed the Vanguard hops and used Strisselspalt hops with a 2.9% alpha, 1 oz. at 60 min. and the other at 30 min. I added the honey with 5 minutes to go, and was wondering if that was what made it so dark? But then I read on here about LME and it makes sense. I also chucked the yeast NB plugs, and used WLP 029 because it was a Kolsch yeast. I left it in the primary bucket for nine days, then I transferred it to a glass carboy secondary about 12 days ago. I'm thinking it's about time to prime it. Is it true one can prime with honey instead of sugar as long as one uses a ratio of 1.31? I read one could do this due to the ratio of fermentables between sugar and honey being about 75/98. I didn't quite get five gallons, so I'm thinking a typical dose of sugar will overprime it. How long did you guys put it in primary, secondary, conditioning, etc? My yeast was stinky too (but I love it, haha)...