I just coughed in my braggot

How awesome is that? Opened it up for a gravity reading this morning and the second the smell hit me I coughed right into it. Hopefully enough alcohol in there already to kill any bacteria I might have coughed into it...

And yeah... its tastes like gasoline. This one is a LONG way from being drinkable.

The nice thing about braggot is that if you have hops in there you have a trifold shield against infection. Hops, high alcohol, and natural anti bacterial honey behavior

You would think so but you still need to be careful. More so than a strait mead. I handled my bragott just like my meads rather than how I do wines and after alegume into bulk aging and a few taste tests I noticed bacterial infection. Totally soured the whole thing. It was a sad day for bragotts world wide.

So if you are done with fermentation and just bulk aging I would say hit it with a dose of Camden tablets. But that's just me from my parinoid state after my bragott loss.

Update. Racked it to the secondary today and it looked great. No infection or anything. Shweet!