Huajillo honey
Very delicate and clean with a light floral sweetness and almost no aftertaste — a honey that stays out of the way.
A water-white Texas honey with a devoted following and a very small production area. Huajillo is a thorny acacia relative of the south Texas brush country, and in a wet spring it yields one of the palest and most delicate honeys made in North America. It has been sold under the Uvalde name for over a century and is one of the few American honeys with a genuine regional identity.
Flavour and aroma
- Aroma
- light blossom, warm dust, clean wax
- Flavour
- clean sweetness, faint floral, a soft buttery body
- Finish
- Short and clean.
- Intensity
- Delicate
- Sweetness
- Very sweet
- Bitterness
- None
- Acidity
- Low
Colour, texture and crystallisation
- Colour
- Water white (0-8 mm Pfund)Extra white (8-17 mm Pfund)
Nearly colourless — among the palest honeys produced in North America.
On setting: Slow to set, and fine and white when it does.
- Texture
- Runny; Thick but pourable
- Crystallisation
Slow — months before it starts to granulate
Fructose-leaning and slow to granulate, typically holding liquid for the better part of a year.
Typical composition
- Moisture
- 14–17.5% (typically 15.8%)
- Fructose
- 39–45% (typically 42%)
- Glucose
- 27–33% (typically 30%)
- Glucose-to-fructose ratio
- 0.62–0.8 (typically 0.71)
- pH
- 3.7–4.5 (typically 4)
- Electrical conductivity
- 0.1–0.3 mS/cm (typically 0.19 mS/cm)
These are typical ranges assembled across published work, not measurements of a specific honey.
What these mean: the sugars and the ratio · moisture · conductivity · how each is measured
Where it comes from
- Floral source
- Senegalia berlandieri, formerly Acacia berlandieri — a thorny shrub of the Tamaulipan thornscrub, not related to the Robinia behind European acacia honey despite the shared common name.
- Origins
- The Edwards Plateau and south Texas brush country, centred on Uvalde, and adjacent northern Mexico.
- Origin pages
Resolved from both directions — origins this honey names, and origins that name it.
- Harvest
- March to May (northern hemisphere)
A short spring flow entirely dependent on winter rainfall. In a dry year there is no crop at all, and several years in a decade produce nothing.
- The bees
- A heavy flow when the rain comes, and colonies are moved into the brush for it. The same landscape supports a rich native bee fauna adapted to the thornscrub's brief unpredictable flowerings.
- Usual processing
- Spun (centrifugally extracted), Coarsely strained, Raw
Production is limited by rainfall and by brush clearance. South Texas thornscrub has been cleared extensively for pasture, and the honey's supply follows what is left standing.
What to do with it
A tea and table honey. Its delicacy is the whole product and heat removes it entirely.
At the tableDrizzlingIn hot drinksDessertsDressings
Pairings
- Iced teaClassic
The Texas pairing, and it dissolves cleanly with nothing to compete.
- Biscuits and cornbread
A plain carrier for a very mild honey.
- Fresh cheeses
Neither party dominates.
Pairing pages this honey appears on
Selected by this honey’s own recorded intensity, flavour families and uses rather than by anything written above — each page prints the rule that put it there.
Where this honey sits in the catalogue
Sources
- HoneyHQ editorial synthesis — HEKNO Ltd · HoneyHQ synthesis
How sources are selected and weighted is set out in the sources and evidence policy.
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