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Re: Taste and aroma of oilseed rape honey.
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Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 13 Feb 2016 20:30:30 -0500
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Hi all

I don't know about oilseed rape honey, but Frank Pellet wrote in his 1920 book "American Honey Plants" (another great bee book from the past):

The honey from alfalfa varies in color and quality in different localities.
In Colorado and Idaho it is of very light color and with a spicy, mild
flavor of excellent quality. In the Imperial Valley of California it is much
darker in color and of poorer quality.

[I have had Imperial Valley honey and I liked it. The honey is produced during very hot weather. Days over 110F and nights in the 90s]


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