You might think all honey tastes the same, but it does not. If you want the best honey experience I strongly recommend you go for Raw honey as opposed to the usual pasteurized kind which involves the honey being heated and thus much of the natural goodness gets destroyed in the process. Secondly, the sorts of flowers the honey is made from makes an enormous difference. A lot of the time you might not be able to know just what sort of flowers the honey is made from, but a good indication can be found in where the honey came from. Take this variety in picrel, for example. It is sourced from around the Great Lakes. Do you know what grows in great abundance around there? Goldenrod. This gives this honey a very distinct and spicy flavor. I also understand that Goldenrod is known for having enormous medicinal qualities, so a honey like this is a very good choice if you're eating it for health reasons or to treat some ailment in a traditional manner.But a word of note though: this tastes very different from the typical honey you're probably used to. Its so different it might come as a shock and not everyone will necessarily like it.
>>22000713If you're ever in Spokane or Yakima there is mint honey which sounds kind of gross at first but it's really good. Alfalfa and Buckwheat are popular too but they don't taste as good, supposedly are healthier though.>You might think all honey tastes the same, but it does notI don't know a soul that thinks this. Are there really people out there that just buy pasteurized stuff from the store? Local isn't much more expensive and unlike milk, honey is actually better for you raw.
>>22000841>mint honey which sounds kind of gross at firstthat doesn't sound gross >unlike milk, honey is actually better for you raw.raw milk is better for you if it doesn't give you food poisoning
>>22000848>food poisoning is great unless you have food poisoning
>>22000852raw milk does not inherently give you food poisoning or whatever it is you're trying to say
>>22000848>raw milk is better for youno, it isn't.
>>22000841>unlike milk, honey is actually better for you raw.>>22000848>raw milk is better for you if it doesn't give you food poisoningThe only reason why raw milk is actually bad has to do with the unsanitary modern dairy industry. This was never a problem (and still isn't) on small dairy farms where the cows are well cared for and kept clean. But it sadly is a problem now where dirt and feces end up contaminating everything. No one wants to think about it, but that does end up in the milk and you're drinking it without even realizing it. But if the milk is pasteurized then it kills the bacteria so you won't get sick from it, but pasteurized feces is still feces so its still disgusting to think about anyway. Anyway, the only way to avoid that is to get milk from cows that clean and well cared for, but again that's not going to be from the large industrial factory farms which is why pasteurization is necessary.
i went to a honey festival some years ago and there was a beekeeper there who had a single container full of what he called "house honey". there was a hive inside the walls of some person's home and he removed it, and this honey was what the hive produced. it was very fucking weird. there were like three different flavor transitions, and it had a very dry almost piquant mouthfeel it left you with. neat experience.
>>22000964pasteurization destroys some nutrients, it's unavoidable
>>22000713Import ukranian honey
>>22000841>mint honey
>>22000713I think most here is raw. If I want legit I get comb. Murrikkkans must have shite food, I feel bad for you.
>>22001689>modern dairy industryFor thousands of years anything but hour fresh or fermented milk was a good way to kill yourself.Udders have always been close to shit, the only thing which is new is that e-coli got even more toxic.
>>22000713I do enjoy the goldenrod if you know what I mean... but I prefer buckwheat - it's almost like molasses. Always some buckwheat in my mead; it works like dark malt in beer.
I buy honey at local farmer's markets and it's always way better than anything you can find in a grocery store.
