All Grain Honey Beer?

[Mattress]

My bees have been very productive over the summer and I have lots of honey. (80kg from 5 hives)

One of the hives produced a dark, thick (like toffee) honey that I'm going to use for brewing.

So, any suggestions on an all grain recipe using honey?

Thanks

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Gordon Strong uses honey in a lot of his recipes, just the one type, Orange Blossom honey, so it has a distinctive taste. Mark (MHB) suggests that unless the honey has a distinctive flavour it just ferments out, which I have read from other experts. I did think of using orange zest with the honey but gave away that idea when I read that honey from India and China may not be real honey.
Ended up dropping the 2 kilo I had at Food Bank in Yarraville, Gordon Strong's Book Modern Home Brew Recipes is available on kindle and you may find some of his recipes on line.

 

[Coodgee]

I did this honey lager recently, it turned out very nicely. Very distinct honey aroma, quite strong for the first month but it fades in time a bit. For a light lager style beer you really want the lightest, most delicately flavoured honey only - something like a blue gum honey. For the dark honey you have, something like a porter might be more appropriate. The trick is to add the honey at high krausen, which preserves the most delicate honey aroma. I didn't pasteurise my honey before using.

note the use of all vienna and munich malt, because the honey adds 12% of the fermentables I thought it would be thin to use pils malt.



Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 29.04 l
Post Boil Volume: 26.04 l
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l
Bottling Volume: 21.50 l
Estimated OG: 1.049 SG
Estimated Color: 8.2 EBC
Estimated IBU: 16.7 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 87.0 %
Boil Time: 90 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
2.00 ml Lactic Acid (Mash 60.0 mins) Water Agent 1 -
3.50 kg Vienna Malt (Weyermann) (5.9 EBC) Grain 2 80.5 %
0.35 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 3 8.0 %
12.00 g Hallertau Magnum [12.20 %] - Boil 60.0 m Hop 4 16.7 IBUs
3.0 pkg Saflager Lager (DCL/Fermentis #W-34/70) Yeast 5 -
0.50 kg Honey (2.0 EBC) Sugar 6 11.5 %