TheNoodlerHank
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I'm about to start making mead and it's hard to find raw honey around here. Help plez
Straight meads i.e. honey water nutrients and yeast is known as traditional and using the walmart stuff wouldn't give the best likely result as it will have likely been processed to hell and back......I'm sorry. I'm in NE Texas. On the mead I was going to make was plane Jane mead. So honey from Walmart will work?
you guys are gonna hate me. I work at Basque restaurant with an attached bar. We have guys that work for Lyons, a food processing plant, come in after work. They make a lot of the syrups and sauces that restaurants use. Talked to one about mead making and the next day he brought me a 5 gallon bucket of raw honey. For free. Just cost me a round of drinks. This is the third time I have gotten 5 gallon buckets from 3 different guys. Last one had pieces of comb and bee parts.
Descender said:you guys are gonna hate me. I work at Basque restaurant with an attached bar. We have guys that work for Lyons, a food processing plant, come in after work. They make a lot of the syrups and sauces that restaurants use. Talked to one about mead making and the next day he brought me a 5 gallon bucket of raw honey. For free. Just cost me a round of drinks. This is the third time I have gotten 5 gallon buckets from 3 different guys. Last one had pieces of comb and bee parts.
DeviantBee said:I get honey from my hives, which average around 40lbs per hive on 50 hives. So the easiest way is to be a beekeeper.
Or..
I'd google/bing a local beekeeping club in your area. You can sometimes buy honey by the bucket, which for me locally is 100-120 bucks for a 60lb 5 gallon bucket.
I don't think my apartments will let me have bees.
you guys are gonna hate me. I work at Basque restaurant with an attached bar. We have guys that work for Lyons, a food processing plant, come in after work. They make a lot of the syrups and sauces that restaurants use. Talked to one about mead making and the next day he brought me a 5 gallon bucket of raw honey. For free. Just cost me a round of drinks. This is the third time I have gotten 5 gallon buckets from 3 different guys. Last one had pieces of comb and bee parts.
you guys are gonna hate me. I work at Basque restaurant with an attached bar. We have guys that work for Lyons, a food processing plant, come in after work. They make a lot of the syrups and sauces that restaurants use. Talked to one about mead making and the next day he brought me a 5 gallon bucket of raw honey. For free. Just cost me a round of drinks. This is the third time I have gotten 5 gallon buckets from 3 different guys. Last one had pieces of comb and bee parts.
What do you guys think of Costco Kirkland Honey? I have been reading online how store honey is not really honey, and so thought to ask.
I got 5lbs for like $12, which I thought was pretty good.
TheVenerableMead said:It's real honey if the only ingredient on the label is honey. It's just not raw honey. Raw honeys are preferable for straight/great meads, but Krusty Brand honey is good enough until you really go for your artisan badge.
I read n the paper the other day. A lot of honeys r like 1/3 honey and 2/3 corn syrup.
If it says pure honey on the bottle, that's what it is, pure honey.
I'm up north here in Canada so I'm not sure if our food inspectors catch it or not. I usually buy local but for large batch melomels I have gotten no-name honey from Superstore, which is a Loblaws subsidiary. So I gotta say hmmmm.Not always... Several honeys have been bought off the shelf and tested...
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