Braggot yeast

[millsbrew]

I'm making a braggot this weekend.

The 3 gallon recipe is
3.25# pale malt
.8# Rye
.5# flaked rye
.5# cara-pils

1oz US Liberty at 30mins
3.5# honey into Primary

Seems a lot of people are using D47 or ec1118. I want more of an ale flavor, and not so much a wine flavor. My LHBS carries White Labs and I'm torn between 530 (Abby), 550 (Belgian), or 570 (Belg. Golden). They also have the 028 (scottish), but it's a little past it's prime and I'm brewing Saturday (so I don't want to rush doing a double or triple buildup for a starter).

Any one have experience using any of these yeasts in a braggot?

Thanks in advance.

 

[HawleyFarms]

I haven't done a real braggot yet as I was focusing on hopped cysers for awhile but I wanted to say that i've been having huge success with belle saison in meads. Although I did use dme to prime my radish acer saison cyser so I guess it is braggot-like.

On to the question you asked, I'd say to give the Golden belgian a try although i'd be hugely interested to know how an abby braggot turns out.

 

[alaktheman]

Let us know how this turns out.

 

[Chris_The_Rogue]

Nottingham works for both meads and ales so i would assume it or its equivilent would be a good choice.

 

[loveofrose]

Wyeast 1388 also works great. See Nemesis on my site.


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[alaktheman]

So I am currently thinking about doing this too and was aiming for approximately 9% abv what yeast strain would you recommend

 

[HawleyFarms]

Shortly after this post I threw together a braggot using Biermunchers Centennial blonde ale as a base recipe. Used US05 yeast and it turned out great.

 

[alaktheman]

Also if anyone knows of a commercial brand that I could get my hands on that would be great