How to Make CBD Infused Honey

Infused CBD products are one of the most popular and trendy ways to access the benefit-packed, hemp-derived compound. Variety is the name of the game and these products come in a wide range of forms including chocolates, gummies, cookies, and more.

Among the wide range of infused options, honey is one of the most versatile. Honey can be consumed directly or added to other end products like coffee or tea. If you do any research on pre-packaged CBD honey, you'll quickly find that most of the products out there are quite pricey and the quality, purity, and contents of the included hemp content are often hard to verify.

In this article, we walk you through how to take your favorite honey and infuse it with our water-soluble Hydro CBD tincture. You'll end up with a highly effective, high-value infusion that you have complete control over.

What You'll Need

This entire process is fairly simple so most of the tools you need will likely already be in your kitchen:

Ingredients:

Honey

CBD Source (Choose One) Big Sky Botanicals CBD Hydro Tincture (Recommended) CBD Isolate Concentrated CBD Extract



Tools:

Glass measuring cup

Medium saucepan

Stir stick or small spoon

Thermometer

The Benefit of Using Water-Soluble CBD

CBD Hydro is a water-soluble tincture that features nano-sized oil particles that are suspended throughout the tincture. This nanotechnology allows for the Hydro tincture to disperse throughout liquids (or in this case honey) without separating as an oil would.

Not only does this make mixing the solution easier, but our water-soluble formula is up to 500% more bioavailable than oil-based or crystalline CBD. This means that up to 5x as much of the precious hemp extract is absorbed by the body. The result is a lower cost per dose because you need to consume less CBD than you would if using a non-water-soluble product:

Alternative Options

It's still worth mentioning that this recipe could be made using either a concentrated full-spectrum hemp extract (not an oil-based tincture but uncut hemp extract) or CBD isolate. The drawbacks are that these solutions lack water-soluble properties. This means they won't infuse as well throughout the honey, they may separate over time, and they won't be as effective which means you will have to infuse more CBD for the same effects.

Despite the downsides of these two alternatives, we've included alternate instructions for using full-spectrum extract or CBD isolate at the end of the article. The main recipe follows our recommended path, showing you how to make the Hydro-based honey infusion.

Determine the Potency of Your Finished Product

Before we start, we need to do some basic math to determine the potency of the end product and how much CBD will be required.

In this example, we use Trader Joe's 24oz (680g) Multi-Floral & Clover Honey. Looking at the nutrition facts we find that a serving is 1 Tbsp (21g) and there are roughly 32 servings in the bottle. The Hydro tincture that we will be mixing with the honey comes in a 1 oz (30ml) bottle containing 250mg of CBD in total.

By simply dividing our total CBD content (250mg) by our 32 servings of honey, we find that each serving will contain 7.8 mg of CBD.

While this is just slightly less than the 8.33 mg of CBD content in a 30 serving Hydro tincture, 7.8 mg is still a sufficient dose. This simple calculation can be adjusted up or down depending on your target potency and honey content.

How to Make CBD Infused Honey

With our target potency in mind, it's time to start mixing!

Step 1. Remove Some Honey to Make Room for the Tincture

In order to maintain the total volume of the honey and preserve the 32 serving size, we need to first remove the volume of the Hydro tincture in honey. Since determining and then removing the exact volume of honey is difficult, we just eyeballed the approximate volume of the tincture which was roughly two tablespoons of honey.

If you're using an isolate blended in a small amount of carrier oil or concentrated extract, you won't need to remove much of the honey at all.

Step 2. Creating the Honey / CBD Infusion

Next, we need to mix the tincture in with the honey. In order to accomplish this, we will use a simple double boiler to heat the honey and Hydro infusion. The heat loosens up the honey, making it much easier to mix the two ingredients together.

Honey is a health-packed substance that is also sensitive to heat. Overheating honey can potentially ruin the many benefits. Honey has even been observed in the Ayurvedic community to create toxins when exposed to high heat. Do not use the microwave honey or overheat at any point!

Luckily, nature provides a great reference point for this heating process. Bees keep their hives at precisely 95 degrees Farenheight for honey production. We can safely assume then that heating honey to this temperature is totally safe.

Begin by adding water to your saucepan and placing the glass measuring cup inside.

Slowly heat the water to 95 degrees F, monitoring the temperature throughout the water with your thermometer.

Once at temperature, let sit for a few minutes to bring the glass up to temperature.

Once ready, add the full Hydro tincture and then the honey into the glass measuring cup. Don't worry if you don't get every last drop of honey out of the bottle as it will mix back in later.

You'll notice that the Hydro initially separates and floats on top of the honey.

Simply mix well until the infusion is completely uniform.

Once finished, remove the honey from the water and pour it back into the original packaging.

Step 3. Store & Use

You can store the mixture in the cabinet just as you would any other bottle of honey. Separation shouldn't be an issue, but to be safe you can flip the bottle over a few times to mix the honey up to ensure that the CBD is dispersed evenly before use.

Alternate Option: Using Full-Spectrum Extract or CBD Isolate

Unlike the Hydro approach, when using CBD isolate or a concentrated CBD extract we first need to create a minimal oil-based CBD mixture and then combine it with the honey using very low heat.

CBD naturally takes a crystalline form and using a small amount of carrier oil allows the molecule to bond to the oil and prevents re-crystallization in the honey. To create this oil, we need to heat CBD isolate or a full-spectrum extract together with a small amount of MCT oil.

Start by filling your saucepan about half full with water and placing the glass measuring cup in it. This creates the double boiler which we will use throughout this process.

Using a thermometer to measure the water temperature, heat the water until it reaches about 130-140 degrees Farenheight - the melting point of CBD crystals.

Add the CBD isolate or extract content to the glass measuring cup and then add a small amount of oil. We only needed 1/8th of a teaspoon in order to fully dissolve a gram of isolate. If your isolate is in slab form, be sure to crush it up into powder first to make the dissolving process easier.

Mix the extract and oil together until fully dissolved. If using an isolate, the end result will be a completely clear oil. If cloudy, you'll need to continue heating and mixing. Using a full-spectrum extract will create a tinted oil that should be slightly runnier than the extract alone.

Now that you've prepared the CBD content, simply head back up to step 2 and continue along mixing this newly created oil infusion with the honey.

Enjoy your CBD-infused honey and leave any questions or comments below!