Honey

hi guys.
I'm brewing a red ale and want to add honey. I think steralizing honey and adding to secondary might give best results. Possibly using manuka honey as i have read it gives the floral notes im aiming for. Any taughts ?

Jesus - manuka honey, you must have money to burn. Try googling for a local honey 'farm' and you'll get the best stuff.

When we did a honey beer at the brewery I used to work at, we mixed the honey at 80C with boiled water then to the FV. Got plenty of honey flavour and aroma.

[oldbloke]

You shouldn't really need to sterilise it (you probably meant pasteurise anyway)
It's practically an antiseptic in its own right

Brewing a braggot right now, dumped the honey in straight from the jar, no infection but very thick.
Add to secondary, adding in primary will blast off a lot of aroma.

shove half of it in the boil last 10 mins then the other half 4 to 5 days into ferment. Don't forget adding honey increases abv so you will need to adjust your recipe accordingly

cool good stuff to work with. I didn't check the price of the manual honey I was looking for a honey with allot floral auroma and that seemed to be the one. Might go with something else as crazy price. Cheers.

Heather honey would be lovely but is also expensive unless you're in a heather area and know a beekeeper who might want to swap some honey for beer! That said it's still precious stuff as it's not easy to produce. A chestnut honey might also be an interesting addition and is strong so could go a long way.

As it's my first try probably better to use cheape4 option as most likely do something wrong other than the honey and go from there. I used red X malt and for colour this time. It's at end of primary fermentation so heated up 1kg bone valley honey to pasteurise and waited to it cooled to ferment temp and added.