The homemade tastes more like real honey to me and is intensely sweet. But mine DID "sugar" on me and I have to slightly warm it up in the MW each time so I can get it out of the jar. I thinkk I made a quadruple recipe and just store it on the pantry shelf. It's nearly a year old with no spoilage. It's taste/quality hasn't diminished in any other way than the sugaring/thickening issue. Even real honey will sugar on you after a certain point.

I believe my first and only imitation purchase was the Nature's Hollow. But once I made the imitation, I quite ordering it on-line.