Despite having made a bunch of meads and a few wines at this point, I still somehow have never made beer or cider. This recipe is inspiring me to try a braggot.
There are some great stove top extract kits out there that can get you started at a pretty approachable entry point, too! I know our local homebrew shop here sells 1 gallon ingredient kits for people wanting to dabble.
I know city steadying did a braggot with a hopped liquid malt extract which looked really easy for beginners as well. I’m trying it as we speak with a the liquid malt extract can’t wait to find out how it works. Only I’m doing strawberry, hopped liquid malt and clover honey. It started fermenting last night and then when it’s done I’ll carbonate and bottle. Essentially just pour and mix everything together but you won’t get those other more interesting grains and hoops. I think you trade complexity for simplicity with this method.
Last weekend I bottled a 5-gallon batch of Skeeter Pee (thank you for bringing the recipe to my attention!), and it was my first time bottling a batch in 100% 12oz bottles. Usually I fill 750ml wine bottles, with 5-6x 12oz bottles for the dregs. I was not prepared for how much work it is to fill 53 (!!) bottles at once!
My recipe for 1.5 gallons batch : 375g of Orange Blossom Honey 680g of Two-Row 204g of Munich 204g of White Wheat 102g of Honey Malt 102g of Carapils 50g of Acid Malt 4.5g of Amarillo Hops 9g of Mandarina Bavaria Hops Kveik Voss Yeast, pitched at 1g/L (boiled for 35 min, used ~2 gallons of water + 250 ml sparge) added hops at 15 min before flameout added orange blossom honey @flameout and swirl in making sure nothing stick to the bottom cooled and transferred to fermented with all the trub because it had a huge honey smell to it and that generally work fine for me took reading - OG: 1.070 didn't add any nutrients (honey + trub should be enough), no whirlfloc (might be a mistake) and pitched 7 grams total because my OG was higher than expected not sure why my OG is so high, maybe I didn't scale it properly or my yield was better (asked for double grind on the grains and it was really fine) should be good none the less, will update when I tested it ! and goddamn that honey is good!
I made close to this recipe recently - my only changes due to what I had lying around were I used Simcoe instead of Mandarina Bavaria and I had some fairly generic wildflower honey to use. Even with more generic honey this turned out delicious, good reviews from friends and family alike! My one regret is only making 1 gallon to start and it's so good that I just have to try it in the truly proper to recipe way next. My first time trying a braggot and a resounding success! Thanks BC!
Update, made it exactly to recipe hop-wise a second year. Currently drinking it with a chocolate chip cookie and it's an incredible combo. Next year I'll make it a third time and actually get high quality orange blossom. Great braggot recipe!
Mashing in with baby in hand. That's awesome BC. Parenting the most.😁😄😁 I have 3 gallons orange blossom honey and have never done a braggot before. I I'm gonna give this one a try. And as always, thanks to the video.
Heeeyyy I just racked my blackberry orange blossom mead using that McCoy honey and it is incredible that will be my go to orange blossom honey from now on for sure
We’re going to be working on braggot recipes over the coming year, so hopefully in the next few months we’ll have even more recipe options from our channel too!
Hey Doin The Most! I have been a really big fan of this brew in particular and have made it multiple times. I actually just made a batch yesterday except this time I started with 5 gal of water using same grain bill and then used 2 gal of sparge water around 160f. Then boil for 1 hour instead of the 15 min to help promote clarity. I also only use 1 oz of Amarillo at 15 min left as my only hop addition. I ferment inside of a keg using pressure fermentation because I find it makes for a really clean and crisp beer with no fear of oxidation or infection. Everything about the brew was very smooth but I actually got a different result for my OG than normal. I think the sparge water increased my efficiency causing my starting gravity to be 1.064. I'm really hoping it doesn't affect the overall balance of the brew because this is my favorite. Woke up this morning the my keg whistling away! Lowered the spunding valve to around 7 psi and it started spraying foam haha😂. Very happy fermentation going on it seems. Just wanted to share. Thanks for all you do!
Looks and sounds delicious! Have you tried an amber ale style braggot with bouchet honey? I think that sounds really interesting, but I'm curious whether it's been done, and just doesn't taste as good as I imagine it ;)
Hi I’ve done a few hydromels based on your recipes and they all came out great and this inspires me to try this out. Not sure if i can get all the grain ingredients tho but just wondering if i can’t boil a full 6 or 7 gal wort is it ok to just boil a 1 gal/4 liter wort and add water to 5 gal like you’ve done in previous recipes. Thanks
It’s not super common here either, and when it is in grocery stores I can’t justify the price per pound versus buying it in bulk online! But I understand not everyone is buying 60 pound pails.
@@DointheMost oh dude I'm totally with you. The only really reasonably priced honey in my area is small bottles of wildflower honey from Aldi. While it's consistently great for brewing I want some more variety
What up doin the most. Big fan of your channel sir. Quick question: Once fermentation is done in about 11 days can I prime and bottle right away? Also if I don’t prime and keg instead will it be ready to drink a week or so sooner? I did a double batch of your recipe but substituted out the orange blossom for Wildflower and used 2 ounces of hallertau hops and 1 ounce of German opal. In 1 6 gallon carboy I used Kveik yeast and the other carboy American ale yeast. Excited to see the results. Thanks!
In these days, i saw your braggot recipes all are great 😎 in this recipe whats is the batch volume? and how much grams of honey do you recomend to use per liter in this kind of beers?
Great Setup , You make it look , Do able . I've never made Beer 🍺🍻 before. But I have been invited to a few Tastings, after we Shut the County down . I prefer a Pilsner over a Larger . But I haven't tried em all . So I'm not an Expert Taster . 🐯🤠
i would love to make this as my first braggot, but, 1 would like to start with a 5L carboy for fermentation, ( also for space i dont have for bigger carboys), how should i adjust tis recipe?
Oklahoma City municipal. Joking aside, we have sort of hard water and I did no amendments. So there is some minerality in here. I’ve found that almost always enhances honey character.
Damn, I cannot get orange blossom honey in my area ! I might try regular honey and some orange zest instead... really want to make something with orange and honey.
@@DointheMost I found orange blossom honey at 1,86 $/ 100g , gonna try brewing a small batch of 1 gallon using this recipe really soon! I'll let you know how it turned out, thank you !
@@DointheMost took the adjunct sugars up to 50% from sugars to honey (orange blossom) 12lbs pilsner 60min .25oz citra hops( none traditional but has citrus notes) 10min 2oz sweet orange peel. A phenolic Belgian yeast If bottling bottle condition with honey as priming sugar.
I'm sitting here thinking are you sure about those water calculations, that's barely accounts for any boil off.... 45 seconds later: Nevermind, a 15 minute boil would explain it. I should have known better than to doubt.
Haha. I gotta tell ya man, I’ve been really enjoying the short boils. Cuts a full 45 minutes off of an already long brew day, and with the right amount of hops you would barely know the difference.
Despite having made a bunch of meads and a few wines at this point, I still somehow have never made beer or cider. This recipe is inspiring me to try a braggot.
There are some great stove top extract kits out there that can get you started at a pretty approachable entry point, too! I know our local homebrew shop here sells 1 gallon ingredient kits for people wanting to dabble.
I know city steadying did a braggot with a hopped liquid malt extract which looked really easy for beginners as well. I’m trying it as we speak with a the liquid malt extract can’t wait to find out how it works. Only I’m doing strawberry, hopped liquid malt and clover honey. It started fermenting last night and then when it’s done I’ll carbonate and bottle. Essentially just pour and mix everything together but you won’t get those other more interesting grains and hoops. I think you trade complexity for simplicity with this method.
This sounds like a fantastic recipe. I appreciate all the work you put in, finetuning through all your iterations. I'd love to brew this someday.
Definitely give Brew in a bag a chance if you get the opportunity to score some gear for it! Definitely a good shortcut to great beer.
Last weekend I bottled a 5-gallon batch of Skeeter Pee (thank you for bringing the recipe to my attention!), and it was my first time bottling a batch in 100% 12oz bottles. Usually I fill 750ml wine bottles, with 5-6x 12oz bottles for the dregs. I was not prepared for how much work it is to fill 53 (!!) bottles at once!
Man, this looks delicious. I own no beer brewing equipment, but this makes me think about it.
Brew in a bag is a pretty cheap way to get into beer brewing, especially if you can find a deal on used gear on craigslist or Facebook marketplace!
I'm brewing this right now :)
Will update later !
My recipe for 1.5 gallons batch :
375g of Orange Blossom Honey
680g of Two-Row
204g of Munich
204g of White Wheat
102g of Honey Malt
102g of Carapils
50g of Acid Malt
4.5g of Amarillo Hops
9g of Mandarina Bavaria Hops
Kveik Voss Yeast, pitched at 1g/L
(boiled for 35 min, used ~2 gallons of water + 250 ml sparge)
added hops at 15 min before flameout
added orange blossom honey @flameout and swirl in making sure nothing stick to the bottom
cooled and transferred to fermented with all the trub because it had a huge honey smell to it and that generally work fine for me
took reading - OG: 1.070
didn't add any nutrients (honey + trub should be enough), no whirlfloc (might be a mistake) and pitched 7 grams total because my OG was higher than expected
not sure why my OG is so high, maybe I didn't scale it properly or my yield was better (asked for double grind on the grains and it was really fine)
should be good none the less, will update when I tested it !
and goddamn that honey is good!
I made close to this recipe recently - my only changes due to what I had lying around were I used Simcoe instead of Mandarina Bavaria and I had some fairly generic wildflower honey to use. Even with more generic honey this turned out delicious, good reviews from friends and family alike! My one regret is only making 1 gallon to start and it's so good that I just have to try it in the truly proper to recipe way next. My first time trying a braggot and a resounding success! Thanks BC!
Update, made it exactly to recipe hop-wise a second year. Currently drinking it with a chocolate chip cookie and it's an incredible combo. Next year I'll make it a third time and actually get high quality orange blossom. Great braggot recipe!
Mashing in with baby in hand. That's awesome BC. Parenting the most.😁😄😁
I have 3 gallons orange blossom honey and
have never done a braggot before. I I'm gonna give this one a try.
And as always, thanks to the video.
She’s absolutely fascinated by the brewing process! Especially bottling, haha. I hope you enjoy this braggot as much as I do!
I have added this to my brew calender.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
Thanks for the great walk through and video. This one is definitely on the list to brew.
Appreciate it! This one took a while to lock in.
Heeeyyy I just racked my blackberry orange blossom mead using that McCoy honey and it is incredible that will be my go to orange blossom honey from now on for sure
Fantastic, got everything I need in my cupboard. Will make it asap! Cheers
Nice!
You’ve just inspired me to enter my braggot into Mead Stampede
We had like two or three last year, and I want more! Such an under represented category and they can be so delicious and crushable.
Been thinking about trying a braggot recently - maybe I'll give this one a go
We’re going to be working on braggot recipes over the coming year, so hopefully in the next few months we’ll have even more recipe options from our channel too!
Hey Doin The Most! I have been a really big fan of this brew in particular and have made it multiple times. I actually just made a batch yesterday except this time I started with 5 gal of water using same grain bill and then used 2 gal of sparge water around 160f. Then boil for 1 hour instead of the 15 min to help promote clarity. I also only use 1 oz of Amarillo at 15 min left as my only hop addition. I ferment inside of a keg using pressure fermentation because I find it makes for a really clean and crisp beer with no fear of oxidation or infection. Everything about the brew was very smooth but I actually got a different result for my OG than normal. I think the sparge water increased my efficiency causing my starting gravity to be 1.064. I'm really hoping it doesn't affect the overall balance of the brew because this is my favorite. Woke up this morning the my keg whistling away! Lowered the spunding valve to around 7 psi and it started spraying foam haha😂. Very happy fermentation going on it seems. Just wanted to share. Thanks for all you do!
Looks and sounds delicious! Have you tried an amber ale style braggot with bouchet honey? I think that sounds really interesting, but I'm curious whether it's been done, and just doesn't taste as good as I imagine it ;)
Do you recommend bottle conditioning this instead of kegging??
I used Kveik Voss in my orange blossom chai mead. Amazing results.
This braggot is so legit. I think I will try and make this recipe; I will be very very sad when I finish my 6 pack lol.
Hi I’ve done a few hydromels based on your recipes and they all came out great and this inspires me to try this out. Not sure if i can get all the grain ingredients tho but just wondering if i can’t boil a full 6 or 7 gal wort is it ok to just boil a 1 gal/4 liter wort and add water to 5 gal like you’ve done in previous recipes. Thanks
Looks like another killer recipe dude. Great video. In Michigan orange blossom is hard to come by so I might have to place an Amazon order here soon
It’s not super common here either, and when it is in grocery stores I can’t justify the price per pound versus buying it in bulk online! But I understand not everyone is buying 60 pound pails.
@@DointheMost oh dude I'm totally with you. The only really reasonably priced honey in my area is small bottles of wildflower honey from Aldi. While it's consistently great for brewing I want some more variety
Yay!!
McCoy’s is amazing. Great vid.
Great stuff, indeed.
What up doin the most. Big fan of your channel sir. Quick question: Once fermentation is done in about 11 days can I prime and bottle right away? Also if I don’t prime and keg instead will it be ready to drink a week or so sooner? I did a double batch of your recipe but substituted out the orange blossom for Wildflower and used 2 ounces of hallertau hops and 1 ounce of German opal. In 1 6 gallon carboy I used Kveik yeast and the other carboy American ale yeast. Excited to see the results. Thanks!
Is there any reason this is done outside rather than on the stove?
Is this the braggot you talked about on one of your last streams?
Yep! FaeWood and I tasted it on last week’s stream.
In these days, i saw your braggot recipes all are great 😎 in this recipe whats is the batch volume? and how much grams of honey do you recomend to use per liter in this kind of beers?
Thanks for a good video.
How much honey/ liter you use to carbonate in bottle?🎉
How would you make only one gallon of this?
Great Setup , You make it look , Do able . I've never made Beer 🍺🍻 before. But I have been invited to a few Tastings, after we Shut the County down . I prefer a Pilsner over a Larger . But I haven't tried em all . So I'm not an Expert Taster . 🐯🤠
Pilsner is a great summer beer!
What do you do about the yeast in suspension? If you left those bottles long enough, wouldnt there be sediment at the bottom?
How did you go about oxygenating the wort?
I didn’t oxygenate it any extra.
i would love to make this as my first braggot, but, 1 would like to start with a 5L carboy for fermentation, ( also for space i dont have for bigger carboys), how should i adjust tis recipe?
This fuckin guy. Great explanation I’m serious!
What temp do you pitch the voss kveik?
I usually pitch kveik as soon as it hits about 90F.
I just bottled a OB Hefeweizen using the McCoys. It's really good honey.
Right? I wish I could get a whole pail of it!
Do you have a water profile ?
Oklahoma City municipal. Joking aside, we have sort of hard water and I did no amendments. So there is some minerality in here. I’ve found that almost always enhances honey character.
How do you know how much honey and grain to use?
Damn, I cannot get orange blossom honey in my area !
I might try regular honey and some orange zest instead... really want to make something with orange and honey.
I could see maybe one or two oranges worth of zest a few days before bottling working out pretty well.
@@DointheMost I found orange blossom honey at 1,86 $/ 100g , gonna try brewing a small batch of 1 gallon using this recipe really soon!
I'll let you know how it turned out, thank you !
Have I got a braggort for you. Belgian stong golden braggot
Tell me more!
@@DointheMost took the adjunct sugars up to 50% from sugars to honey (orange blossom)
12lbs pilsner
60min .25oz citra hops( none traditional but has citrus notes)
10min 2oz sweet orange peel.
A phenolic Belgian yeast
If bottling bottle condition with honey as priming sugar.
Um making this asap
It’s tasty stuff! I’ve almost gone through or given away this whole batch already!
Wow dude I never noticed before that you are tatted, rock on.
I have a few! Spent some hours in the chair my man.
@@DointheMost Awesome dude, I have 70 myself.
I'm sitting here thinking are you sure about those water calculations, that's barely accounts for any boil off.... 45 seconds later: Nevermind, a 15 minute boil would explain it. I should have known better than to doubt.
Haha. I gotta tell ya man, I’ve been really enjoying the short boils. Cuts a full 45 minutes off of an already long brew day, and with the right amount of hops you would barely know the difference.
The lazy way to liquefy your honey is to set the bottle in the sun for a while.
The real pro tips are always in the comments!
Am I a massive idiot or are %%%% appreciated
And what size batch are you making?
I want to make it 1gal
I'm in a metric country
Want to replace some with dme
Impossible.
Nice recipe.
But you ruined the process for me but use of a microwave for the honey. 🤷
Huh