<exerped from several posts>
> more about the color than actual origin.  To Average Consumer, honey comes
> in Clover, Orange Blossom, and Everything Else.  People who like "varietal
> honey" are a very small group, I fear.
 
> They are (or would seem to be) a growing group here in australia.
 
We have found that special honies are a useful marketing tool, no matter
whether they are really great tasting, or just 'interesting'.
 
Many people say honey is honey and get jaded.  A taste of buckwheat honey
starts them thinking again.
 
Most specialty honey goes in small quantities, but we have many people
who buy it by the 60 pound pail.
 
Here's an update on the - so far unidentified - brown honey(dew) that got
us going down this line of thought, along with some Japanese bamboo?
honey that someone had obtained - I never did hear for sure.
 
Actually at closer inspection it is red - we now have 25 drums and still
the extractor spins.  It's so good I hate to ship it for blending, but I
suspect there is too much of it for our specialty loving customers to eat
in the next year or so.
 
I'm waiting for the pollen analysis to come back.  I hope it is
believable.  Otherwise it's time for a gas chromatograph test?
 
W. Allen Dick,
Beekeeper Rural Route One, Swalwell,  Alberta  Canada T0M 1Y0
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