Sarvis...or thats what I've been told it was. It's 1 for the first to bloom around here
Real light...

For northern MN Sweet Clover White is very good,Fire weed if you can find a big enough patch to put 12 or 16 set up in.Out west Sage honey can be very good,Orange blossom is very good,Sour Gum in the south east is good...

Sweet clover is about the best. N the north.

Bigblackbird sents me several different honeys a year. He numbers them and I report back which I like best. Never remember what it is but he always sends me great stuff. Me and the kids always seem to like different ones.

Round here bees keep the golden rod for winter we take the Chinese tallow in spring

Either a very dark clover honey, or an almost clear basswood honey.

Straight star thistle not the crap they sell from cali. Its fluorescent green in color. When I had bees I would take 40 hives over towards the coast and make black berry honey. I would end up with close to three barrels , it always sold out first. It went real good on chicken and pork.

Sourwood honey.

It’s funny how everyone’s taste for honey is different. A co-worker and I went to a place in near Corvallis, Oregon where they had many types of honey and tasted several. My favorite was meadowfoam. I forgot what her favorite was but I remember I didn’t care for it and she didn’t like the meadowfoam.

The Amish around here sell the best honey Ive ever had. We have always bought local honey but this stuff is just different. I went to the amish to buy a bunch of jars to give out at Christmas and I complimented them. They said I must have got their honey from the sunflower bees. Apparently thats the honey they prefer.

Black rasp berry

Had a lady put some bees on our place.
They used the wildflowers growing on the road ROW and it was good honey.


Growing up my dad would get honey every year from a man that had bees that he knew, case of quarts without comb and case of quarts with comb.
Pretty sure he distributed amongst the family
That old man had a bunch one year that dad said looked like motor oil. Said the man said it taste good but nobody would buy because of the color so he fed it back to the bees.

Got some white tupelo honey couple weeks ago. Didn't care for it.

I blend my summer and fall extractions. 60% summer- 40% fall. I end up with a nice, consistent amber color with a consistent taste. Otherwise, I’ll have lighter early honey ( tree blossoms and clover ) or darker honey to sell from the fall ( goldenrod and Japanese knotweed ) .

Other than goldenrod, it would be difficult to make single source honey here in western Pa. Too many varieties of nectar to separate honey varieties. Back in the late 70s, I made buckwheat honey by moving hives out to a strip mine reclamation job that was planted in buckwheat. Hives made two shallows each in 2-3 weeks. I wouldn’t make it again….honey is extremely dark , strong flavored, sugars up quick, and doesn’t extract well. Years ago, old folks of Eastern European decent ( Polish, Russian, Slovak ) favored the stuff. It would be a hard sell today.

Sweat clover for me.

theres so many flowering plants in our area its hard to tell what all is in it if it is clear its good made some dandelion honey this year i think its really good

its like black angus steaks most of iit is called clover honey in our area lol

Locust

That reminds me of the jar of bitterweed honey I got stashed away. To look at it is the perfect honey, golden in color, nice viscosity, has not granulated in all the years I've had it BUT it tastes for all the world like some sort of petroleum distillate solvent. Grade A NASTY. Yet, a small subset, like my son in law, can not even detect the off flavor at all and report just a mild sweet but bland honey.

BTW, the nasty flavor carries through in mead but goes away if distilled.

Here in Pa, folks try to get their supers off in early July before the spotted lantern flies emerge. Honey bees will gather up the secretions that lantern flies create when feeding on tree of heaven sap. Honeydew .They bring back the secretions like nectar, and store in honey cells. It creates a dark, smokey tasting honey, not favored by anyone I know.