flatrockbrewing
Well-Known Member
How popular are braggots? I'm looking for recipes/additions to bring up the gravity of our parti gyle second running.
Not very, you'd be hard pressed to find a commercial example. Personally, I don't like them.
Why not just ferment the second runnings as-is? Part of the attraction of parti-gyle is getting a small beer that can be consumed while waiting for the big one to finish.
I am a big fan of partigyling it up, but the problem is that you are stuck making a pretty strong beer, and if you're planning on adding some candi syrup or sugar, your gravity points will quickly get out of control. It limits you a little bit. It makes more sense to add fermentables to the second beer.
This is really a great idea.
every homebrewer I've talked to about braggots (I think the total is around 3 now, lol) mentions they take a tremendous amount of time to age. 2 years is minimum.
i do not have the patience for that.
BJCP doesn't specify how much needs to come from honey for it to qualify, only that it should have characteristics from the honey.
every homebrewer I've talked to about braggots (I think the total is around 3 now, lol) mentions they take a tremendous amount of time to age. 2 years is minimum.
i do not have the patience for that.
From what I always heard, for it to be considered a braggot it needs at least 50% of the fermentables to come from honey. Otherwise i think it is considered a honey beer. But then again, what do i know
yeah, I agree wtih mrorange - I think a substantial amount of fermentables should come from the honey in order to classify as a braggot.
otherwise it's just beer with honey.
indeed. BJCP isn't end-all-be-all
not necessarily. i mean if you do it right you can create any gravity/volume combination you want.
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