Using spun raw honey

[munro]

Doing a honey brown for a wedding. The course are giving away unpastiruzed (but spun) strawberry honey as gifts. Want to use some in the ale. Recipe has 8oz of honey malt in it and says to add a pound of honey with 10 mins left in the boil and then prime with 3/4 honey. I force carb so don't want to over carbonate but am worried about not gettin any honey flavor after the boil. Also conserned about wild yeast in honey messing with flavors. I've heard adding at flameout can kill yeast and add flavor? Anyways tips/help please.

 

[StoneHands]

The honey malt will give you the honey flavor. Real honey ferments almost completely, so you won't get much flavor contribution from it (I suspect that's why they also added the honey malt to the grain bill). Add your raw honey at flame out, before chilling. It'll pasteurize it, killing any wild yeast, but still give you the fermentables. It'll maybe retain some of the flavors through the finished product. If nothing else, you can say you added the raw honey, people will taste the honey malt and assume that's where the flavor came from. Don't prime with honey, too unpredictable for my tastes, but you said you force carb, so that's fine.

 

[munro]

So when adding at flame out I read somewhere thy wait till its below 100 degrees? Of if I'm just goin to Pasturize it to kill the wild yeast should I jut add o boil to be safe? I go from flame out to chilled in 6 minutes so is that enough time to turn it to fermentable sugar?

 

[StoneHands]

Honey is already a highly fermentable sugar right out the jar, so no need for it to turn into anything else. I'd look up some pasteurization times, but I would literally put the honey in at flame out, when your wort is still over 200 degrees. Stir to mix it in. Maybe wait 5 minutes or so to kill any nasties, and then start chilling since you chill so fast. Don't wait until it's below 100 degrees (that was probably yeast someone was talking about). No need to put it in the boil.

Edit: Just looked up some pasteurization times, they're really short when you're over 160F. You'll be good to turn off the flame, add the honey, stir to dissolve/mix, and start your chilling. No need to wait.

 

[munro]

Excellent thanks very much for your help I appreciate it