If your recipe called for actual honey, then that's why it is dry.
When you add honey you are actually doing more to boost the ABV and dry the beer out, than to actually get any honey flavor.
That's the thing with people adding honey to beer, they really AREN'T getting much honey flavor in their beer, because
it is fermenting away to alcohol, like making mead.
Which unless you kill fermentation and back sweeten with honey that won't ferment, really doesn't have that much of a
sweet honey flavor.
To get a real honey flavor, use the darkest you can find, with the most concentration of flavor, or even better,
use Gambrinus honey malt ProBrewer Interactive - View Single Post - Honey Malt
So if you put a lot of honey in, it will have the same basic affect as adding table sugar to it...it's going to dry out and thin the beer.
If people want a real honey
taste then ad some honey malt to your grainbill you will be surprised...it will taste like most people want honey beers to taste.
In bottling the same thing is going to happen....only a little bit of "honey flavor" is going to come through, because most of it will ferment out. And it is really hard to control how much flavor is going to be left over. One thing to consider would be to use the darkest honey possible, so there is unfermentable left behind.
(Like bottling with brown sugar or even mollasses.)
I did an amazing Belgian Dark Strong with a couple pounds of Honey malt, and it was like what a honey beer SHOULD taste like.