Hey! I am trying my hand right now at crafting a session braggot, it should be a really fun brewing experience I hope and I think it has lots of room for brewing innovation!
I am in the brain storming phase right now and I have thought about things that I want for certain in the finished product.
Appearance:
Yellow to dark gold in color
Long lasting creamy head
Nose:
Honey floral flavors like you would expect from a nice mead
Perhaps some marsh-mellow?
Taste:
Marsh-mellow?
From malt, Biscuit, Cracker, Nutty Light caramel, honey?
From Honey, floral flavors perhaps marsh-mellow
Hops: Some Berry flavor
Mouth-feel:
Full mouth feel, not overly heavy, moderate carbonation.
FG:
I am thinking around 1.010 ish
ABV:
Restrained but not low, I am thinking around 5.5%
So with these desired qualities in mind, I have started to think of some ingredients that might get me close.
Malt:
-Vienna as base
-Victory and Biscuit for nuttiness, cracker, and biscuit
-Honey Malt, to give full flavor and add honey on palate that will survive fermentation.
-Wheat and carapills for head
Honey:
-Something that will hopefully stand up to the rest of the ingredients in
the flavor profile. At a very minimum, it needs to have very strong
aromatics so that even if it doesn't lend flavor it will give a strong floral
or marsh-mellow smell.
Hops:
Very restrained in terms of IBU, but I was thinking some flavor addition
Nelson Sauvin and El Dorado could work quite nicely with the honey theme.
Honey as percentage of sugars:
I would say somewhere between 35% and 55%, I know this
will make it hard to get both my FG and low abv, but it's part of the challenge
In the end I want the mouth-feel, carbonation, and residual sweetness of a beer, and the awesome aromatics and honey flavors that you would expect in a mead. All of this with out it being a sugar bomb.
So what do you guys think, should I seek medical attention? :fro:
I am in the brain storming phase right now and I have thought about things that I want for certain in the finished product.
Appearance:
Yellow to dark gold in color
Long lasting creamy head
Nose:
Honey floral flavors like you would expect from a nice mead
Perhaps some marsh-mellow?
Taste:
Marsh-mellow?
From malt, Biscuit, Cracker, Nutty Light caramel, honey?
From Honey, floral flavors perhaps marsh-mellow
Hops: Some Berry flavor
Mouth-feel:
Full mouth feel, not overly heavy, moderate carbonation.
FG:
I am thinking around 1.010 ish
ABV:
Restrained but not low, I am thinking around 5.5%
So with these desired qualities in mind, I have started to think of some ingredients that might get me close.
Malt:
-Vienna as base
-Victory and Biscuit for nuttiness, cracker, and biscuit
-Honey Malt, to give full flavor and add honey on palate that will survive fermentation.
-Wheat and carapills for head
Honey:
-Something that will hopefully stand up to the rest of the ingredients in
the flavor profile. At a very minimum, it needs to have very strong
aromatics so that even if it doesn't lend flavor it will give a strong floral
or marsh-mellow smell.
Hops:
Very restrained in terms of IBU, but I was thinking some flavor addition
Nelson Sauvin and El Dorado could work quite nicely with the honey theme.
Honey as percentage of sugars:
I would say somewhere between 35% and 55%, I know this
will make it hard to get both my FG and low abv, but it's part of the challenge
In the end I want the mouth-feel, carbonation, and residual sweetness of a beer, and the awesome aromatics and honey flavors that you would expect in a mead. All of this with out it being a sugar bomb.
So what do you guys think, should I seek medical attention? :fro:
