I'm getting ready to make a couple of batches of mead. I need honey.

I know there are a couple of places in town where I can get honey (Common Ground). Seems to me I've heard somebody in the club talking about bee keeping. Do we have a someone in the club that has honey?

Thanks folks.

Tony

FWIW.

I found Sue Bee Honey at Sam's for $7.37 for 5# ($1.07/#). Obviously, a more processed honey.

I checked Common Ground. They sell Honey in bulk for $3.19/#.

My plans are to make a sweet mead to for the B-N Jaycees festival in September.

Tony

Nice to see people already planning for SeptemBeerFest!

I'm gonna do a green apple lambic with jolly ranchers, saw the recipe somewhere, probably need to dig that up and get it going soon.

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Mead will take at least six months to make and should be aged for 12 months.
I use to buy honey from a guy in Lexington for$ 60 for 5 gal but last fall he went up to $120 for 5 gal. That was too much for me. If anyone has a line on where to get 5 gal of honey for less then $90 , let me know.

While I agree that most meads need at least a year to be decent, there are a few recipes that will produce faster results, particularly if a sweet mead is desired. My first two meads--actually, my only two so far--took one and two months, and were not particularly good and quite nice, respectively.

[The one I liked was the online favorite, "Joe's Ancient Orange Mead." Heavy spices and fruit I think were mainly what made it good so quickly.]

I remember seeing that there's a honey producer a bit southeast of B-N...a quick check online yields a possibility, "Amber Bee Company," although they don't have a website.

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