Reviews for Hometown Provisions 60 lb. Buckwheat Honey

Honey was very dirty. Had to run through strainer twice. Just wanted you to know so I won’t be ordering Honey any longer.

This does NOT taste like alfalfa honey. Alfalfa honey should be light and have flavors of vanilla with some floral tones. This honey tastes like it has molasses in it. The color is darker than it should be and when I warmed some up in my tea, it tasted like the floor of a barn. Of course, this is a consumable product so it is not returnable. I have 3 buckets of honey I cannot use. Feels like a bait and switch. I bought some Orange Blossom a few years back and it had a similar barn floor taste, whereas true Orange Blossom honey should taste like grape candy. Their Buckwheat is delicious, though. Makes me wonder what is happening to the rest of their line.

I've bought about 4 of these 60lb buckets (orange blossom) for home-brewing over the past 3 years. A few notes on this honey: The mead you can make with this isn't at all bad and is totally drinkable, but wont knock your socks off. As a primary sugar source for brewing it is adequate. As a secondary sugar source, such as for cysers, braggots, and pyments, or to augment higher-quality honeys, it is extremely hard to beat for flavour and price. I would strongly recommend this to those wanting to get into mead, as it's a VERY economical source of honey to use as you dial in your technique and learn the craft. I would also recommend this to established home-brewers, again as an economical option for experiments or to just have around. FYI this stuff make a dang good hydromel - shoot for 6% abv, back-sweeten, and balance the acidity with lime juice.

Very reliable. The orders are shipped promptly and arrive within couple of days undamaged. I wish they had a storage place in the south USA. The shipping cost is prohibitive for small orders.

Top of (2) bottles were broken off. Product wasn't damaged. But, better care needs to be taken when shipping

For the price, this can't be beat. We use it in dressings and cookies. Really like it.

I make mead and this honey was just a little too dark. I will go back to your clover honey. However, I did make 4 batches of great mead.

Though this product is listed as "wildflower honey," and when opened it "looks" like wildflower honey, it DOES NOT have the flavor that it should have, and has artificial coloring that separates when the honey is added to liquid. My recomendation... BUY LOCAL!

Very quick delivery

Very affordable and taste great

Great honey. Will buy again

Good ??

This product is outstanding.my only issue was the packaging. I ordered two bottles of honey and both caps were broken and the box was coated with honey and leaking out. Not much honey was missing but it could have been packed much better.

On this order arrived quickly one got damaged by shipper but replaced in two day get to do business with will be placing orders in future

I was unable to even use this product, as everytime that I received the honey, it was burst open in the box that it was shipped in. Fix your shipping standards Webstaurant!

Works great for honey mead. Loved it and love that I can use it for multiple 5 gallon batches of homemade mead.

This is a wonderful honey and a great price.

Love this honey and how much I got as well ..very nice indeed .. glad I bought it .

This is a dark honey and very sweet. A little too sweet in my opinion, but I am use to using spring raw honey and while this brand is organic, it is likely from fall flowers given its darkness. Probably not something I'd buy again because it's just too sweet for my taste.

Customer service is outstanding! Great flavor. Easily turns back to liquid.

We have used this honey in BAKING and SAUCES and it has been wonderful! No issues with our baking or needed alterations in recipes. The price beats costco!

Bought 30 gallons of wildflower honey. Great price and came shipped without a problem. Taste was awesome. Using this for mead so I was surprised at the great fruity and floral notes at such a good price. Very high quality honey. YMMV, wildflower is a mixed bag but this was great. I'll definitely be buying hundreds of gallons in the future.

High quality product at a great price.

I purchased this honey to use in body scrubs, and I can't keep it from crystallizing and making my scrubs rock hard! I've had to issue refunds ... extremely disappointed. I have not had this issue with honey from other suppliers. What a waste of money.

Best HONEY I've purchased and great value!!! last order came within 2 days I was more than HAPPY.

I love this rich, flavorful honey. Among many other uses, I mix it with your Black Strap Molasses (# 999BLKSTP4X1) for a wonderful syrup on pancakes!

This honey is pure Heaven. I've tried several of the other types over the years but this is my absolute favorite. It's smooth and sweet and perfect for tea, coffee, toast, honey butter and anything that needs a bit of sweetening. It's actually helped me to cut back on sugar. I will definitely be buying again and again.

Absolutely superior honey. Lacks that clover taste and allows for flavoring for honey syrups.

I absolutely love this honey. I used this in my Honey Butter recipe and it was amazing! Very thick with wonderful taste.

This afalfa honey is great quality, and is a huge size and will last you for some time. It has a great flavor, and i have not gotten any complaints about it. It works well for cooking and baking as well as added into drinks, i will be purchasing again for my coffee shop

Love having the honey, in a large container, this makes it easy when I need it. It’s a little hard to pour it. It’s very heavy. I still like it better than the smaller containers.

This honey is excellent! We mostly use it in our specialty coffee drinks, but works very well as a topping on our bagels. This honey mixes well with Espresso, coffee or tea. We also like the bulk bottles and how easy it isnto dispense.

Loved it Recommend it but the price went up as usual.

It’s good honey actually, really love the size, taste and value of it . I’ve tried all three flavors and I bought over a dozen bottles but be ready half of it’s going to be unusable. It’s a shame it will crystallize and it won’t matter how much you put it in the warm water or try to get the crystallization out it’s ruined. I have three bottles out of last order of six ,that are blocks could be used to build with, just worthless and it’s been stored in a perfectly climate controlled area ever since it’s been delivered and it all just crystallizes and turns into a block of sugar, Worthless ,be ready good luck

This honey has a great flavor, and the bottle makes it easy to dispense. It does start to crystallize after a while, but it can just be heated up to fix this.

Good

So delicious and such a great deal at this price. I like to add this and orange blossom water to make a fragrant and sweet fruit salad. Yum! It's also delicious on just bread with butter.