I definitely don't like that Dutch Gold filters out pollen. First of all, pollen is good for you. Secondly, if there is no pollen it's impossible to trace. Most likely it is coming from overseas. A bottler here in Michigan got hit with a huge fine for buying honey from overseas, filtering out the pollen, and selling it as US honey. The fine was in the millions. We run our honey through a filter that is similar to cheesecloth. Just gets wax pieces out. We heat it only to 120 so it will run through that filter. I believe that's still legally raw, although we don't market our honey as raw. As some people have said, one of the best ways to get honey for beer and mead is by having a couple beehives of your own. Try to find a local beek that will sell you a couple. The companies selling them are usually WAY overpricing. I've seen beeks selling hives for 150 bucks or less. A couple of them should get you 100 lbs or so of you take good care of them. Just don't ask me about buying hives haha! We don't sell any. But some beeks do.
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