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Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:53 pm
by Taylor Vanbrewer
Just moved to town and wondering if anyone can recommend a decent honey source?

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:23 pm
by UberBaum
I'm curious to hear what others have to say, I've never actively looked for a direct from source option but the one mead I made was with a mix of honey and sugar. I got away with 2kg bottle from Costco that turned out pretty good but I'd guess that there are better deals to be had.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:01 pm
by Hobbitfu
Yah only made 1 batch of mead (still aging) and used 15lbs of honey from Costco... Would love to try using local honey (NB). But want to wait to see how current batch tastes

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:21 pm
by chalmers
Cosman and Whidden are the ones that come to mind. They may sell to you in bulk if you tell them you're a homebrewer/mead person.

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Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 6:17 am
by Juniper Hill
Welcome to Halifax! Crossman and Whidden - good quality local wildflower honey and available at most grocery stores. Will sell a bit cheaper in New Minas if you buy in bulk and bring your own container. Murray's Apairy is another local product available at SS and a few others, also very nice quality wildflower honey. A bit of buckwheat honey (available at Organic Earth Market) adds lots of complexity to mead IMO. Varietal Blueberry honey may be available at some select farms, but I haven't really sought it out.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:56 pm
by KMcK
My neighbour and I are interested in honey for mead as well. Anyone care to go in on a group buy from Crossman and Whidden (or another source if anyone knows of one)?

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 2:02 pm
by Broob
I'd be interested in honey at a bulk price.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 4:37 pm
by LiverDance
Me as well


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Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2015 10:49 pm
by Celiacbrew
I'd be interested as well.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 9:25 am
by Taylor Vanbrewer
Very interested in a group buy.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:03 pm
by MitchK
I'd like to get in on the mead train if a group buy actually saves money

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 12:29 am
by MitchK
I emailed cossman and whidden and buying a 7kg pail only would save a couple dollars over buying 7 individual KG jars at the grocery store of their stuff.

My hunt for an affordable bulk supply continues I guess, though in the meantime I might make a one gallon batch.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:07 am
by Celiacbrew
Have you checked with Foote Family Farm?

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 12:49 pm
by Broob
This is a dead thread but..I was talking to Dave a few months ago asking if he ever thought about bringing in some bulk honey for those of us who like to make mead. He seemed to think there wouldn't be much interest. I don't mean wildflower honey like you'd get locally here (you could likely just buy it from Cosman and Whidden), I was thinking maybe honey that's harder to get. Orange blossom honey etc.

Would anyone be interested in this? I wouldn't expect it to be cheap but it's hard to get interesting varietals of honey here without some type of distribution channel.

edit - I'm not suggested that Dave will or can do this by the way. Just wondering if there is interest.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2017 5:57 pm
by Celiacbrew
I’d be interested in getting something interesting if there were a way to get it here cheaply.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:25 am
by BBrianBoogie
I would be interested as well.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 11:31 am
by LiverDance
I'd be in.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 1:03 pm
by Jimmy
I'd likely be in for some

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:20 pm
by Celiacbrew
Looked around a bit online and couldn’t find anyone doing bulk orders of varietal honey in Canada. Lots in the US. Anyone know if you can ship honey across the border?

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:29 am
by Taylor Vanbrewer
A local source of orange blossom would be amazing.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:53 pm
by Tiwilager
Hey everybody!
I'm a local beekeeper (in Middle Sackville). I'm getting into making mead from my own honey, and stumbled onto this forum. I have a little bit of honey left that I'd like to sell off. (If this post is not allowed, please let me know). I am only a hobbyest, so I probably can't get quite as cheap as the big producers in the valley, but if you are interested, let me know and we can work something out.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:23 pm
by Celiacbrew
Tiwilager wrote:
Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:53 pm
Hey everybody!
I'm a local beekeeper (in Middle Sackville). I'm getting into making mead from my own honey, and stumbled onto this forum. I have a little bit of honey left that I'd like to sell off. (If this post is not allowed, please let me know). I am only a hobbyest, so I probably can't get quite as cheap as the big producers in the valley, but if you are interested, let me know and we can work something out.
How much a kg and what variety do you have?

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:41 am
by Tiwilager
Celiacbrew wrote:
Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:23 pm
How much a kg and what variety do you have?
The price would depend on how much you were looking for, but what I did for another mead maker was that they gave me a bottle of mead, a recipe, and brought their own container, and I gave it to him for $4/pound.

The variety is wildflower. It is light, which means that it contains more nectar from spring time flowers than fall flowers. If you are sourcing honey from NS, I would be very wary about varietal honey. Our season is very short and intense, and we lack monstrous mono-culture. While you can get mixes from different times of year (honey is generally darker from later in the year), I seriously doubt that there is any type of honey other than "wildflower" actually produced in Nova Scotia.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2018 10:02 pm
by KB1138
If anyone is interested, I've found some good honeys at reasonable prices in winner's of all places.

Re: Looking for a good honey source.

Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:15 pm
by elreplica
Did you try POF?🤓