OSR honey and how to deal with it

[Rosti]

I am not sure whether my experience this year is common to others? I have definately harvested a honey that has an OSR content but not to the extent that I have a typical set, opaque OSR honey. This years early harvest is semi opaque, golden and currently remaining fairly fluid (not unatractive in the pot it has to be said). I harvested before it was fully capped to guard against crystalisation so average sugar content is only 81, on reflection I think I could have left it on the hives longer.

I have eliminated early feeding as an explanation:
a) no super on at the time of feeding (see b)
b) have switched to 14x12 as well (main objective this spring) so chances of them moving stores from brood to supers very limited as a two stage process

OSR is the closest forage to my hives (circa 6 feet!) but came in very late here, there was a strong showing from other forage crops before OSR and the local bean crop came in with a significant overlap to the OSR. Anyone else seeing a mixed early honey rather than a predominance of OSR character?

 

[wilderness]

Rosti

Yes me too. The honey is fluid, a pale amber in colour and tastes lovely
It is difficult to get through the fine filter I've got. The filter is a double stage one from Thorne's. I'm filtering at room temperature. This is the third batch I've removed. The first batch which is now over a month old is still fluid in the jars.

I've not tasted OSR honey before but I gather it has a bitter aftertaste? Mine doesn't.

This is my first year where OSR has been very local to me. I'd planned to get a load of 14x12 brood frames and super frames drawn on the OSR flow but the flow didn't seem to happen. Maybe the OSR is the wrong sort as I gather there are 2 varieties?