Water white
35 honeys
The palest grade there is — near-transparent. Almost always a very mild honey, because colour tracks the trace compounds that carry flavour.
Honey by colour
Colour is graded optically on the Pfund scale and is a rough proxy for strength, because the same trace compounds that darken a honey also give it flavour. It is a tendency rather than a rule, and the exceptions are worth knowing.
7 groups · 263 honeys in the catalogue
Extra white
71 honeys
Barely tinted. Mild, clean and frequently sold set, because several of the palest honeys are also the fastest to crystallise.
White
65 honeys
Pale straw. The everyday end of the catalogue, and where most commercial blends sit.
Extra light amber
114 honeys
Pale gold. Enough colour to suggest character without much weight behind it.
Light amber
132 honeys
Golden. The broadest colour band in the catalogue and the one most people picture.
Amber
134 honeys
Warm to deep gold. Where caramel and malt notes begin to dominate.
Dark amber
75 honeys
Brown to near-black. Higher in minerals and phenolics, and correspondingly strong, savoury or bitter.