No bitterness
131 honeys
No bitterness at all. The default, and what most people expect a honey to be — but a smaller share of the catalogue than the assumption suggests.
Honey by bitterness
Bitterness is a real and desirable property of some honeys, and calling it a defect is how a catalogue flattens the interesting end of its own subject. Chestnut, strawberry tree and buckwheat are prized for it in the countries that produce them, and the pairings that work best with salt, blue cheese and dark chocolate all depend on it.
4 groups · 263 honeys in the catalogue
Trace
106 honeys
A faint edge, usually at the finish. Enough to stop a honey being merely sweet and rarely enough for anyone to name it as bitterness.
Noticeable
19 honeys
Bitterness you would mention if describing the honey to somebody. This is where the cheese and dark chocolate honeys live.
Pronounced
7 honeys
Genuinely, deliberately bitter. Chestnut, strawberry tree and their relatives — prized for exactly this in the countries that produce them, and returned as faulty by people meeting them for the first time.