Czech rapeseed honey

The main spring honey of the Czech countryside, gathered from the yellow fields of oilseed rape. Liquid, it is pale honey-coloured; it crystallises quickly and turns whitish, with very fine crystals.

Origin

Czechia, mainly lowlands and uplands with large rapeseed fields

Colour

27 mm · white

Taste

moderately sweet, slightly tangy, fresh

Crystallization

fast

Season

April – May

Plant

Brassica napus · brassica (rape, mustard) →

Colour varies by year and place; the value given is typical of the variety, not a measurement of one jar. Where a source describes the colour only in words (such as ‘light amber’), we convert it to the middle of the matching band of the Pfund scale, so the figure is approximate. The season follows the sources or, failing that, the flowering time of the plant in that area.

Rapeseed covers roughly 300,000 hectares in Czechia, so most Czech honeys contain a large share of rapeseed pollen, not just those sold as rapeseed honey.