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Sunflower Traditional with 71B

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For posterity's sake, I thought to update the story of this mead. The M05 repitch brought the mead down to 1.020 and, again, stopped dead in its tracks: a bit sweeter than I would have liked, but still a level I feel I can work with. I racked it, stabilized it, and added three ounces of Hungarian medium toast oak cubes. Time will tell how it turns out and whether the oak will balance that residual sugar sufficiently.

By the way, I missed your post here, m0n5t3r, as I wasn't checking the thread. Welcome: how is yours? Do you notice any varietal character from the sunflower honey?
 
Oh, the mead is already gone; at first the pollen aroma was still present, then after sitting for a month or two (?) pollen was gone, and it felt sweeter and slightly caramelized; all in all, awesome stuff, I plan to buy, like, 10kg from that beekeeper if they still have stock and make a large batch (but I have a bit of yak shaving to do before I get to it)

As I said before, I'm not very good at judging honey varietals, I find it hard to tell apart even black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) from wildflower by taste alone; the former is obvious because of the color and texture, it's almost clear, runny and twice the price for ... reasons (it's not like they're rare, they've been used to stabilize moving dunes in southern Romania in the 19th and early 20th century, and being an invasive species they tend to form monocultures naturally)

I guess I'll have to splurge one day and buy all local varietals I can get my hands on, so I can calibrate my sensors, my tasting resolution is more or less along the lines of "tasty / meh, I guess it works / nope" at the moment.
 
Again for posterity's sake, an update on this mead. It has sat stabilized on oak for a month now. In that time it has dropped nearly crystal clear, a great surprise to me. Also, while I was worried it would be way too sweet, it is actually luscious and silky-smooth. Not cloying at all like it was at first. Difficult to restrict myself to a small sample.

I still have not been able to discern a distinct sunflowerness in the taste. Hopefully that will assert itself later as it ages.
 
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