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Description

Sweet chestnut honey is one of the strongest honeys. Its scent is strong and hot-spicy, its taste is very pronounced, somewhat bitter and with a slightly bitter aftertaste. This honey is ideal for sweetening coffee. Chestnut honey is very peculiar and unusual, but it has its followers. Some love him, some hate him.

• In appearance: The color of sweet chestnut honey is dark brown-reddish like the dress of the sweet chestnut. If it also contains honeydew, its dark brown becomes even darker, in which case a slight green tinge may appear.

Its consistency is mostly liquid, the crystallization can be coarse-grained as it crystallizes slowly due to its high fructose content. .

• For the nose: its scent is very characteristic, strong, hot-spicy and penetrating.

• for the palate: sweet chestnut honey has a pronounced, spicy and somewhat bitter taste with a noticeably delicate bitterness. Even a minimal amount of 5 to 10% sweet chestnut honey in other honey harvests changes their taste.