Honey/Water on Bike = Cheap!

I used to take homemade honey pouches on all my Marathon training runs over 18 miles.  They worked well for me.  I was going to try to do a water honey mix in my 1//2 gallon water tank mounted behind my seat on my next long bike ride.  I was going to heat 6 table spoons of honey to melting then mix it with water.  I was wondering if I could handle adding any sodium in there too or if I should look into sourcing some sodium tablets to work with the honey.  

Have does the honey separate from the water?  I am wondering if it will settle on the bottom and clog up my straw or it it would stay thin for several hours (long enough to get me through a HIM ride) if mixed with water.  

Has anyone used this as their only fuel source on the bike for HIM or IM?  It is supposed to be a balance of fructose and sucrose which helps your body process more carbs that if you only are taking in one type of sugar so I though this may be a winner and am looking at testing it on my next 50 mile ride.

oh...and I buy my honey directly from the bee keepers for $16 a quart (my wife won't let me keep bees myself). So I know that what I am getting is real honey.   It isn't really cheap, but I don't like the flavor of clover honey (not when I can get honey from alfa fields or fruit orchards).    

Note:  The carbs in an ounce of honey is about the same as gel pack, so in a quart of honey you are getting the equivalent of about 30 gel packages.  So my cost is about $0.53 a serving.  That is half the cost of a gel pack.  If you are getting the cheap Costco honey then that would be about $0.25 a serving.  I am all about saving money (which was the main reason I used honey for my Marathon training runs) but on race day I am more interested in have a fuel that is more digestible and will cause less stomach problems and easier to store, access, consume, and dispose of packaging.  Those are the reasons I am looking at honey right now for my bike fuel.  

I buy from a local farmer.  Good stuff and a neat process. 

Good points and I'll just reiterate to source your honey locally if you care at all about the ingredients. 
Recent article here on "honey laundering" and colony collapse disorder.

Many of the health benefits of honey are removed when it's "pasteurized" or heated quickly above 95 degrees or so - here's a great article on raw honey if that interests anyone.