What is Reddit's opinion of Amazon Brand - Solimo Wildflower Honey, 5 pounds?

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Maybe I've just been really lucky, but I haven't found sanitation to be a huge issue with prisonhooch style brewing. I take some basic precautions like washing the containers with soap and water and washing my tools, but the wine yeast (or even bread yeast) seems to be so robust that it easily out-competes anything else that might have been lurking in my hooch.

You can look up the specific strain of wine yeast that you purchased to find its maximum ABV, but I've found that chasing max ABV doesn't result in the best drinking experience. It can stress the yeast and get you some funky off-tastes/sulfur smells unless you're really careful with the nutrients and/or use some specialized equipment. My favorite wine yeast is EC-1118, and it maxes out around 18%. If all you want is high ABV, look up birdwatcher's wash / tomato paste wash and go with turbo yeast. Honey is kind of an expensive ingredient to use for a glorified sugar wine... you can make some delicious mead-style hooch or use honey in place of some of your sugar to add a distinct flavor to a juice hooch but it doesn't seem worth it in the setup you describe. BTW, the best deal I've found for online honey is this listing on Amazon at $18 for 5lbs, and it's been working well in my brews.

Lately I've been mixing up a lot of fortified fruit wines that are a bit more elaborate than the basic prisonhooch setup, but are still essentially throwing a buch of sweet stuff in a container with yeast and letting nature do its thing. The rule of thumb that I've been working with has been 19g of sugar per liter of water per per percent of alcohol at the end, so for a 10% brew with a gallon of liquid I'd use (19g/*10/*3.8) = 722g = 1.6lbs of total sugars, some of which will come from the fruit/juice that I'm starting with.

If you're really concerned about having local honey, it looks like there might be a couple local sources (here's one resource and here's another). But it isn't truly necessary, especially for a first brew. When in doubt, taste the honey you plan to use. If it tastes good with a nice, pure, honey flavor, go for it. I just started a batch with this honey off of Amazon. I'm no honey connoisseur, but it had some pretty nice flavor- better than I expected from a generic Amazon brand. If you're still unsure, pick up something labeled with "raw", "unheated" / "gently heated", "unfiltered" / "gently strained".

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Brand-Solimo-Wildflower-pounds/dp/B07CVWD7NL/ref=sr_1_17?keywords=honey&qid=1551994889&s=gateway&sr=8-17

Costco has the same stuff more or less in the store or you can order pails online. Webstaraunt is good for cheap pails.

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/search/honey.html