This year I finally had a booming hive going into the black locust flow. The hive was on a scale. Like clockwork, when the BL bloomed, the hive started gaining weight . . . when the flowers dropped, the hive stopped gaining weight. I was putting on 14 lbs per day some days.
The hive gained 90 lbs during that time. I harvested around 30 lbs of that. To my surprise, the honey was darker than I expected. It wasn't real dark, but definitely a darker color. I always thought BL honey would be light. I'm sure other things were blooming too, but I'm 100% confident that the majority of the honey collected was BL.
Does anyone have any experience with BL honey? Why would my honey be so dark?
By the way, it tastes great . . . but I still haven't found a honey I like better than my goldenrod honey . . .
Ken