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[Dave in Indiana]

Have a local bee nerd keeper selling honey $6 a pint or $11 a quart. Good deal? Clover.

[SnowMan]

Expensive.I pay +/- $1.40 / lb on average from a local guy that sells to me by the bucket.I've paid as low as $1.10 / lb and as high as $1.60. It would be a drive for you dave but I can give you his name if you want. He's just east of Nappanee.

[realbeerguy]

I average $2.00/lb. wildflower.

[MyaCullen]

I get local wildflower for $27-30 a gallon. So that's expensive Dave.

Edited by mikeinspokane, 19 April 2009 - 11:43 AM.

[Cliff Claven]

$1.90/lb in 2g pail.Little over $2 for qt and smaller amounts from the guy in the country. (wildflower)

[MyaCullen]

$1.90/lb in 2g pail.Little over $2 for qt and smaller amounts from the guy in the country. (wildflower)

damn

[Dave in Indiana]

Thanks guys, local guy mostly selling pints to housewives ... just wondering how competitive he was ...

[Jeff]

Know your honey source! Not all honey is pure honey, even if it says it is. Remember the old rule. You get what you pay for! I buy only from local keepers. I know what I am getting, and am helping the local economy too. I think I paid like $3 a lb last fall when I got 5 gallons. 60 lbs I think it was. If you buy a quart at a time, they are more expensive. Tell the keeper you want to get a couple of gallons. That cold bring the price down. Share with a friend and get 5 gallons and make more mead.

[ScottS]

Taste it - not all honey is equal. That stuff from the local guy could easily blow the cheap stuff away in terms of flavor.Given that though.... I'm finding that the very distinctive fresh honey flavor doesn't come though much in mead. The varietal differences are really what carries through.

[Jeff]

You're gonna make me look it up! OK, you are right. It was under $2 a gallon. I must have drank too much of that tasty fermented food of the gods between then and now.

[SnowMan]

You can still buy from local keepers for less than $1.80/lb. You are paying way to much and justifying it with "I'm buying local quality" when, in fact, a different local beekeeper will sell to you for half that price for the same quality.

Yeah my beekeeper is happy to sell to me in the buckets for +/- $1.40 lb. I'm getting a deal off of retail price and he gets to sell me an entire bucket. It only takes 1 label. The stuff he retails he has to bottle, label, and cart out to his stores.I also usually get to taste 3-4 varieties each time I am there. Not so much different varietals but honey taken from his various yards he has around the area. Also he always send me on my way with an extra bottle or 2 for the table and a couple of packages of comb honey... mmmm.

[Stout_fan]

https://www.honeylocator.com/

[pods8]

Still haven't found a varietal honey place out here that doesn't have the sell 1 high priced quart to hippies mindset yet. But there is a honey packer who I can get cheap 5gal buckets from (I think $75 last time) and then I just use them for cyser, braggot, or spiced meads which would cover up varietal honey anyways me thinks. Works for me.