Braggot - It's MEAD, it's BEER, it's BOTH (and Easy)
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- Опубліковано 25 тра 2024
- Let's make a super easy Braggot. A Braggot is a mead, which is alcohol made from fermenting honey, and a beer, which is made from fermenting malts. When you blend them together... it's a hybrid called a Braggot. We take you step by step through the process of making a braggot.
Ingredients:
1 pound CBW Sparkling Amber Dry Malt Extract: amzn.to/4byUqND
1 pound Texas Honey: amzn.to/3UWDvh5
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5 grams 60 minutes
5 grams 30 minutes
5 grams 5 minutes
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1 US Gallon of Water
Additions:
42 grams Sugar
Sprinkle of "Insurance Yeast," we used Lalvin EC-1118: amzn.to/3QW59tl
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Thought we would try a little different editing style on this one... hope you like it!
Riff brotha
P.S. I'm glad you were not wiped out by a tornado. You're probably glad of that too.
Excellent production value. 🍺🍺🍺
Thank you.
Honest feedback: The music for the pouring was spot on and fun, the interjectory 4th wall cuts were fun, but the music for the 'honesty' part was a bit too sad feeling. Overall net positive changes and I like it! Best part, trying something new. You always do a great job editing (man I hate editing) but love that you don't stick to your guns and try new things.
Sparkling Fortified Chocolate Stout Braggot, the kind of thought that makes you turn your head to the side and then smile after a moment.
Lol
I like making braggots that are closer to a mead than a beer. Last one used a blend of Briess, Simpsons, and Weyermann chocolate malts, plus some crystal malts to round it out. Malts were mostly for flavor rather than sugar so I used strong ones and added 4oz of lactose per gallon to the boil. Used a little Galaxy hops for the last 5 minutes of the boil (stuff is crazy strong, don't use for an early addition). For the bulk of the fermentable added 0.75lb of buckwheat honey and 1.75lb of orange blossom honey per gallon. Used US-05 yeast and finished at about 12% abv. Tossed in 1oz of dextrose per gallon before bottling for priming. Stuff taste closer to a whiskey mead than a beer mead.
Anyone critiquing what you guys do is totally missing the point! Love all your videos, I got into mead making because of how easy and accessible you make it look. Thank you thank you thank you 🥰
Happy to help 👍
This is so exciting. I’m actually a beer maker hanging out here to learn about Mead. You just collided the two worlds in one luscious sounding drink. I will be trying this. Thanks!
Awesome!
I have learned from making hot Cocoa that the easiest way of avoiding clumps is, start with powder and then pour in the tiniest amount of water and mix that so that you have a thick paste, and then you can add the rest off the water ☺️☺️
To quote Robocop, "I LIKE it!!!" Funny moment was that I got a commercial right around 9:40, just as the dramatic music was coming to a crescendo, and it came back to "BOOM!"
I'm looking forward to trying this. I have a quart of LME left over, as well as a stout kit I think I will augment. Thanks for the ideas!
Now, this is a "Beer" I'd be willing to make!
Less back breaking work and MORE FLAVOR!
Love Amber Bock beer anyway.
I usually like my beers super hoppy, but with the honey, I'm really not sure what flavor profile would be good.
Just going to have to make THIS and adjust to taste, (if needed)!
Thanks again guys!
I promise to become a member as soon as I physically can ❤
Tip for carbonating in plastic bottle, squeeze the bottle with lid off until your brew reaches top of bottle then put lid on while squeezing, as it carbonates the bottle will fill out, now when it's had it'll be nice and fizzy!
I've tried so many ways to test a plastic bottle. It's just not a reliable method.
@CitySteadingBrews you should definitely give it a go, not only does purging the O2 give you more room for more CO2 before the bottle feels solid but because you start with a squashed bottle you get a visual guide to how much CO2 is produced. I'd also give the bottle a good shake and then cold crash once the bottle is hard.
The dramatic effect & music on the pour was awesome! Nice touch...love it!!!
Thanks!
Since your channel is named the way it is, you definitely could walk into the beer territory. As a curious homebrewer I found that I wanted to learn about every category as I gained more experience.
And when you think about it, they're all linked in some way anyway.
Mead and wine (grapes) - pyment
Mead and cider (apples) - Cyser
Mead and beer - Braggot
Beer and wine - Sour beer (with fries and berries. a bit fuzzy link her but you get my point 🙂)
Beer and cider - Graf?
Go for it! 👍😁
We have many beer videos 👍
I love the music on pour into the fermenter. The seriousness in y'alls faces is memorable.
This looks good. Thanks for the idea
It is so interesting to see y'all expand your horizons.
Enjoyed the video as always.
Loved it!!! It cracks me up she still makes you blush!!!
I have accidentally made a carrot sherry wine!!
And it's amazing!
A big oxidised sherry taste at the front. Juicy fruit flavours in the middle. And a brief faint carrot aftertaste.
I started bottling my mature wine 6 months ago, but I suffered a series of unfortunately tragic events.
And as a result I left the demijohn half full of wine and half full of oxygen filled air for 6 months.
And now I sherry :)
What a great idea!
thank you for doing these videos
It totally is a recipe that can be made for any type of beer. I love my wheat extract and Bavarian wheat yeast. We're working on variations of it. Standard Wit, fruited, tea beer, white ipa, dunkle. So many with just a simple change here and there
Quite true.
I am so happy that "Steve " is being made on CSB I am so pumped you are the best !!!!!! Sláinte ☘
I made a big ol 3 gallon batch* of your LME beer recipe for mom's day. Turned out okay, she likes it mixed with a red beer. Aunt thought it was way too hoppy, gram thought it needed more hops. Haven't heard back from the rest of the testers yet.
I rarely drink anything and despise even the smell of beer, let alone the taste, but I still watch these videos cuz they're fun. Thanks for being awesome.
*Wanted to use the whole LME jar, pointless to have it sit in the cupboard forever plus my 1 gallon fermenters were already in use. If I do it again I'll try several one gallon batches to experiment.
BJCPStyles M4A: Braggot. Sounds delicious. Got plenty of ideas going in my head right now. I’m getting some tropical honey with a friend soon and I’ve made both beers and meads. Definitely going to have a fun time figuring out some good hops for it.😊
Can’t wait for mine to be done thanks for the videos. I’ve probably bought most of the stuff y’all use so far I’ve made a blueberry/apple, blackberry with orange blossom that was so good I’ve now got another batch going and now I have your best metheglin and a braggot going
Glad you like them!
@@CitySteadingBrews the blackberry/orange I used was 2lbs of private select frozen blackberries from Kroger, 3lbs of McCoys Orange blossom honey off Amazon (highly recommend) my ending target gravity was 1.110-1.115 ended at 14.8% for a 1 gallon batch and I backsweetened to taste and I want to say this is yalls fault I’m full in on the deep end without floaties on mead so thanks for the new hobby. Lalvin 71b btw 1/4 teaspoon of wine tannins, 1/2teaspoon fermaid-o and pectic enzymes.
Felt inspired by this idea, so I have one on the go! Almost done fermenting. Used hopped dme to make it even easier!
Very excited for this one! I have tried making a braggot a couple times, and it has been just short of awesome...something is missing, not sure what. The cool part is that it's very easy to make a high gravity beer this way, the honey really Turbo charges it. Thanks for continuing to make cool stuff!❤
Stout bouchet braggot - done that 5-6 times (whole grain). It is soooo good.
The chocolate braggot stout sounds delicious!
I have actually made onion wine and roasted onion wine (same recipe, just roasted the onion first). We use it in cooking all the time. Though my husband KO'd a whole bottle last night. 😢
1/2 lb sweet onions
1/2 lb potatos (I think I used reds)
1 lb white raisins
2.25 lbs of sugar
2 tsp acid blend (I left out because I didn't have it at the time)
1 campden tablet
1 PKG wine yeast (I used EC-1118)
Water to a gallon.
Chop onions and potatoes and boil until potatoes are soft (put in mesh bag if wanted). Strain off and press pulp.
Put everything but the yeast into a fermentor minus the yeast. Wait 24 hours then add yeast.
Ferment as usual.
This recipe comes from the, extremely poorly made book, called Winemakers Recipe Handbook. The above recipe does need tweeking but I haven't made it again yet.
I made this same thing about a week ago and it's fermenting right now. I thought it was amazing that you used the same dry malt as I did!
Wonderful!
I love the editing. This braggot sounds like fun and I hope you try some of those ideas you tossed out there at the end while referencing your meadowfoam mead.
Just did the second gravity read for a snake bite graft/ bragged started brewing two weeks ago. I am glad you mentioned Safale s 4 yeast can get 13% or higher when the information I have read said 9-11% abv. My original gravity read was 1.109 and my second reading was 1.000 and my first thought was did I do something wrong because that means this brew is 14.7%abv. I had used half of a gallon of apple cider, simmered 5 @14.9 oz cans of Guinness for a hour to get it really concentrated so I can use it as an Guinness malt extract. I had used two lbs of buckwheat honey, 1 tsp of fermaid-0 yeast nutrient, 1/2 tsp of pectic enzyme and wine tannin as well as a few lemon peels. I had bottled one 25.4 oz bottle of this batch and the rest I am using to make a huge batch of snake bite mustard.
I LOVE the pour music 😂
Brian! I love this recipe! I made something very similar recently. I used 3/4lb amber dme and 1/4lb dark dme with a mix of challenger and williamette hops, along with a little over a pound of honey. I then added water to a gravity of 1.060. It gave it a brown ale with a red hue color to it that was fantastic! Malty sweet, nicely bitter with a distinct floral note to it. Very similar to this recipe! So good!
I've made a few Braggots, all from a liquid malt extract beer kit. It came with the hops already in it. No need to boil at all.
0.5 kg BrewFerm Belgian Brown LME. (Heated in 2 litres of water to dissolve easier.) 1 kg Honey. Diluted to 5 litres. Yeast + Airlock and Bob's your uncle.
Bottled a few weeks later with priming sugar and 'insurance yeast'
And re-closed and in the fridge LME last for ages.
❤ this video. It's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for with beer recipes! While the beer kit recipe is ok it doesn't feed my creative side like this recipe does. Choos a malt, choose some hops, boil, add some honey, yeast and voilà! Simple, creative, good. Personally I like darker beers too so I keep golden dme around add some specialty roasted grains, hops, and yeast for brown ales and dark dme, specialty roasted grains, hops and yeast and get a porter. Add more dme and I get a stout. It's a small variety of ingredients to make a small range of brews. Keep this kind of thing going please!
Very interesting
We're under a tornado watch. Ooo, we should hang out in the room with tons of glass surrounding us.
Lol love y'all. That's dedication to the craft.
If we stopped working every time there was some kind of weather thing here, we'd never record anything, lol.
@@CitySteadingBrews Fair enough 🤣
I love watching you two. Y'all are couples goals, if I wasn't single that is. 😂. You make the idea of home brewing look so manageable, it's become something I plan to begin.
😊 thank you
Wow looks like my idea for the cake series of black forest bragot might be awesome!
Cracking me up with the dramatic tunes🤣
great video cheers
Thanks!
Now that's what I call a head on a glass of ale!!! 😍😍😍
I dream of the day my wife admits she is wrong. And you got it on video, lucky guy. 😆
Braggots seem similar to a Black & Tan. Personally, I enjoy a nice Black & Tan, so I'm thinking a braggot would really tickle my fancy.
Now I'm thinking of small additions and changes for flavor's sake: stick with the Amber DME, mash a small amount of Honey Malt and a very small amount of dehusked CARAFA grain, use Ames Farm honey with their hint of sunflower seed, and go with Fuggle hops for its very mild sweetness meant for porters.
I can't wait for my mead
It’s summer! How about a blueberry or orange braggot? I liked the additional background sounds.
I recently made a honey wheat IPA braggot that was so tasty. I used a nice local to me wildflower honey and the nose on the braggot was all honey and incredible. Thanks for this video!
Glad you liked it!
I've never wanted to homebrew beer because it's so much more "fussy" than meads and fruit wines, but you may have tempted me. This reminds me of a local craft beer I enjoy called "Blood and Honey" (Revolver Brewing Co.) which is a medium ale flavored with honey and blood orange.
I have made a barley wine bragget it turned out really good
Lol! liked the pour build up :)
The suspense was killin me
I've got a couple bochet braggots going right now. I opted for no hops (not a fan of hoppy beers and I figured I'd get some bittering from the heavily caramelized honey). The first one tasted quite good after primary with just a little avocado honey backsweetening even without carbonation, but I guess I didn't use enough stabilizing chemicals because it started back up. The other is still in primary.
Can you call it backsweetening if it’s with Avocado honey?
It's still honey.
I'm not a beer fan, but some of the family are. This sounds good.
I made a "Fake Out Stout" as an outright mead, but now I am tempted to find a solid stout DME and use melter honey for the braggot addition. I may even look at making a Hefeweisen using orange blossom honey since orange peel is a common addition for those or even adding mango honey to do a braggot version of a beer my wife loves called Mango Cart.
Hey I’m fine with experimenting I’m thinking about doing a braggot now because of this video
Barleywine braggot sounds great!
It does!
Update on the barleywine please
This literally came out today.
@@CitySteadingBrews I was referring to an older brew vid y'all made a barleywine once right?
You replied to someone talking about an idea from this video. Here's the one year taste of the barleywine though: ua-cam.com/video/MWk68-hFhn4/v-deo.htmlsi=4jLskI5JdXm6_oIC
I can't wait to see what you think of the Meadowfoam!!! I sent it to you and I'm ecstatic you like it. Imo it tastes like cream soda when finished, so unique and amazing. I've made three batches with it including a coffee Mead with it and holy wow is it amazing! Thanks for the awesome content and I can't wait to see how your batch comes out. I may be able to send you some more in the near future if you want to try the dark braggot brew, it's sounds incredible!
Thank you! So far it smells incredible.
it foams up like a cartoon mead
I've done open fermentations before where I just loosely covered my fermenter (usually a brew bucket). Even with a Hefeweizen, no mess.
WOOO SPADDLE!
And then there's people like me, who doesn't really care what you're doing as long as you're doing it (we'll be watching anyhow) x)
We combine several of your videos to make our Chocolate Raspberry Jam Porter with and without habanero and use honey to adjust our desired ABV. We have started to let them age 10-12 weeks before kegging.
Interesting...
Great video. The music additions were great. Always enjoy seeing a new brew. Gonna have to give this a try. Would you have additional beers you could use ?
Thank you
What do you mean additional beers?
@@CitySteadingBrews
I'm sorry. Different malts.
Plenty of options to make different brews here.
Oddly, I just got three pounds of the exact dry malt extract. Talk about some funky deja vu stuff.
And the same malt is excellent in malted waffle batter, just mix 3-4 tbsp into the flour to avoid clumpage
A dark chocolate, coffee stout and a basically a spicy capsicumel made with mesquite honey, was the best braggot I have had. It was 11% but if you weren’t told it was alcohol, you would think you were drinking a Mexican hot chocolate
Nice!
Just finished my first ever beer - your coffee stout recipe - and it got rave reviews from our DnD group! Tomorrow I get to have my first taste of my chocolate covered cherry wine - which is my first time playing with Crio Bru.
I personally don't care for beer, but I imagine a chocolate stout braggot would go over very well with my husband and our friends! They're already looking forward to the peanut butter porter that I promised, lol.
The ob porter is amazing...
I currently have a bochet braggot going that I hope comes out tasting like a butterbeer!
I just started a bochet. But I wonder how a bochet braggot would be. I do love me a good cold beer after a days work and the way the bochet made my house smell is amazing. I’m sure they would go well together.
9:37 was expecting a spill... I almost feel cheated :3
36:56 Chocolate Stout Braggot Bochet!
41:26 why don't you like dogs? "I Had A Bad Experience" nice movie reference! (remake of the Italian job with marky mark)
Derica’s hair is so pretty!!
Especially pretty when she has it in braids!
@@julietardos5044 Yes - I commented during the first part of the video when it was braided and you could see all highlights woven in. 🥰
Try to make a Jalapeño Ale. There’s a brewery around me that does one and it’s amazing and I think Brian would love it too.
I've been sitting on some avocado honey that I think I will likely make a Braggot with. I think I will be using some Munich malt extract I found.
I use EC-1118. I think is doing a great job.
In Smurf village we call it a Gargamel
I don't know how one would even begin to categorize it, given the vastness of categories just in terms of meads... but I would be so tickled if this channel created an actual recipe for a gargamel that is Smurf inspired.
i like braggot i see it semi often up hear in the north wes of england, as we get a lot of welsh breweries supplyign round here
I learned something new today. Didn't even know this was a thing.
Cool!
OH! I just made one similar, I was using all my leftovers, so my monstrosity was grapes, honey and barly malt, fuggles, it was pretty sweet even watered down to 5gallons.
I have plans for one hopefully this year. I found a hops that smells and tastes of strawberry so I am thinking of a strawberry Braggot... My only hangup is which DME/LME and I gonna like lol
I got my first auto siphon the other day and I ordered the wrong one lol it's like 3 feet long 🤣🤣🤣 gotta ordered a smaller one but it made me think of your guys unusual sized stuff 😂😂
We have links to the gear we use in the description of our videos 😀
I enjoy your videos, I purchased the cap and regulator, and there were no instructions, for instance, what is the allen wrench for.
Adjusting the fit I assume. I use it as shown in the video.
24:53 LOL!!!!
recently made White House Honey Ale (supposedly Obamas recipe)... recipe only called for 2oz honey... i had to knock it up a notch and added 8oz... patiently waiting for it to finish... great vid!... if you like very dark beer try Surlys Darkness, a barrel aged imperial stout... mmmmmmmmm
I grew up in england and never liked the taste of beer, it always tasted like someone else had drunk it before me and repeated it lol. OTOH there is Shandy which is beer with lemonaid in it and I did like that~ I could never make beer, I think the smell would drive me out of the house but I would probably like the end product :)
You should check out White labs in San Diego, they serve split batches of beer that are made with different yeast strains, and show how much yeast can change a recipe. They also give cool tours of how they make their yeast strains.
Next time I travel to Calofornia 😀
Another great video! I'd love to try this as soon as I can!!! I have a quick question about storing beer and braggart. Using swing tops bottles, what is the shelf life of these beverages? I don't drink a lot, but I would love to have an "inventory" that with a wider selection of options. For dark braggot, perhaps buckwheat honey, but to make things interesting, bochet the buckwheat honey before adding it to your hot wort. This will give it a caramel flavor. In addition to that substitute Snowberry honey for the sugar for carbonation. This would give it a toffee-candy-like undertone.
We get years out of them.
Keep an eye open for Guiness West Indian Porter. It is tough to find in the UK (Waitrose has it sometimes), but if you ever see it in the USA, try it. It is sublime!
Thanks for the tip!
Los quiero mucho City Steading Brews
I wanna see it happen!!!! 😄
Looks great..love the comment "ribbed" 😂😂😂 had me laughing out loud at the traffic light. For 5 gal. Just multiply everything by 5?
Yup. Except yeast. A full packet is fine.
I highly suggest you guys make a black IPA if you're into your dark ales and want to explore new styles and hops.
We really don't like hops that much and I don't like IPA's.
Another fantastic video, keep up the great work.
Silly question and I may have missed something here if so I am sorry. The 42g of suger seemed to do really well but how does this translate in to grams per litre?
Well... there's 3.785 liters in a gallon so just divide 42 by that and it's about 11.1 g/l
@@CitySteadingBrews Ah thankyou that is what I had missed. So there was 1 US gallon of final product.
Thanks again
I've been using partial mash....kinda the happy medium. DME/LME make a perfectly good product and super easy, absolutely. But all grain does have an edge for taste. So...being lazy but liking the all-grain taste...I just do both. Little harder than DME/LME, but gives the better flavor too.
I really need to do my Oatmeal Stout Blackberry Braggot that I have most of a recipe for. Been telling myself that for a couple years at least. LOL
I agree!
i love your shirt saying Odins brewary. is it actually a place ore yours brewary? i live in south Africa. would love to try brew this sometime at home.
It's just a shirt we made up.
@CitySteadingBrews it's cool I love it..
If you guys want to make a darker mead to mix beer with you could try buckwheat honey.
We have tried. Buckwheat... not a huge fan tbh. I would rather use darker malts for a darker braggot.
I add pineapple and my wife and I call it good!
4:28 Nothing wrong with using a bag for your hops. They often call them 'hop socks' for a reason.
The bags I use were advertised as hop sock but I use them for fruit instead.
You should make a porter with Bochet honey!! I think that would be amazing
Could try that.
Amazon is already out of the hops!! No ideas when it will be back in stock. Any thoughts on a substitute? Would love to try this sooner than later.
There should be more than one tettnang hops available. a.co/d/8MhHjYQ
Just a note on the naming conventions. A main reason one should follow them is if one was considering entering a brewing competition.
Admittedly I don't know how strict the judges would be on such things, but figured that's a reason for following the naming conventions.
Otherwise, I personally don't care.
I don't do competitions 😀 but a name lets people know what the video is about.
Also FYI the "spaddle" is out of stock, so there was some action on that this morning. I have 2 on backorder.
Oh wow...