Broken Bag Braggot
(Still Braggot) 5

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This Mead Recipe was added by
Evan on September 17, 2004 at 11:42:28:

Brewing Method: Still Braggot
Yeast: Wyeast Mead
Yeast Starter: 2 liter
Batch Size: 5
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Total Amount of Honey: 10lbs
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Yeast Nutrient-Amount: 5tbls
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Primary Fermentation: 2 weeks
Secondary Fermentation: 7 months 68F-72F
Additional Fermentation:

Honey Bill:

I went to a local Honey farm and bought a mixed 10lb container of honey mostly wildflower. Used store bought 1/2lb for primer.

Grain Bill- 5# of pale extract, 2# wheat, 1/2# flaked wheat, 1/2# flaked oats

Hop- 1 1/2oz. Cascade in second fermentor. I took the hops with other herbs and put them in a bag and hung them in the fermentor to add flavor. The bag fell in at some point and hence the name of the brew.

Other Flavorings or Fermentables:

In secondary fermantor bagged hops with, 3 stick of cinnamon, 1" of liquorice, 2 sprigs of Rosemary.

After getting ready to bottle and theifing a taste I decided this could use a little more spice and so for the primer I used a 1/2# of honey with 1/2 cup of confection sugar, six tea bags of black currant tea, 2 oz of orange peal, and some extra rosemary and thyme about 2 small springs each.

Brewers Notes:

A week after bottling it had a cidery taste that I wasn't expecting. Around now a month later it tatses like a braggot a heavy mead tast with spice and a malt finsh can't really find the hops in there but you can kind of smell them. I also can't use a hydrometer so I don't bother. It is pretty alcoholic and not all the sugar was converted so I might use some champegne yeast in second fermentor next time. This cost me a lot of money to make but I am very pleased with the result.




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