Harvested honey today--man am I beat!

barry42001 said:

doesn't make any sense, perhaps a blended honey black locust has a unique taste, not particularly pear flavored though--seems like the "blended honey " have a flavor superior to the " pure " honey.

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Yeah, I posted the Pear-taste remark wondering if anyone had similar experiences with theirs. I'm a beginning winetaster, my wife and I have joined a wine tasting society, and we're pretty much new-bies at the whole thing. When tasting wines, you generally compare the taste to something else you're familiar with. Each person has a different experience. A wine that tastes like "almonds" or "apricots" to me may taste "buttery" to you. I think honey may be a little different. I know there is an unmistakeable & distinctive pear flavor to it, and it just could be simply the result when numerous floral sources are blended in the right ratios into a flavor "cocktail."

I'm pleased with the flavor, but it doesn't have that "traditional" clovery honey taste (you call it "pure" honey). I know it might be silly to say "traditional" honey-taste. What does "traditional" mean? When I go to (and everybody hold on to your britches when I say this) Cracker Barrel and ask the waitress for some honey, and she brings these little 1 square inch packets that you peel the top off, that (to me) tastes like standard run-of-the-mill golden honey. I think that stuff is from Sue Bee whose bees forage off the South Dakota open plains of wildflowers and clover. I'm really guessing here, I just don't know for sure.