Honest feedback: The music for the pouring was spot on and fun, the interjectory 4th wall cuts were fun, but the music for the 'honesty' part was a bit too sad feeling. Overall net positive changes and I like it! Best part, trying something new. You always do a great job editing (man I hate editing) but love that you don't stick to your guns and try new things.
Anyone critiquing what you guys do is totally missing the point! Love all your videos, I got into mead making because of how easy and accessible you make it look. Thank you thank you thank you 🥰
This is so exciting. I’m actually a beer maker hanging out here to learn about Mead. You just collided the two worlds in one luscious sounding drink. I will be trying this. Thanks!
I have learned from making hot Cocoa that the easiest way of avoiding clumps is, start with powder and then pour in the tiniest amount of water and mix that so that you have a thick paste, and then you can add the rest off the water ☺️☺️
This sounds really delicious. I've made a bunch of beers (kits, mostly) and last winter tried your spiced mead recipe and it blew my mind. Love the idea of this combo.
Now, this is a "Beer" I'd be willing to make! Less back breaking work and MORE FLAVOR! Love Amber Bock beer anyway. I usually like my beers super hoppy, but with the honey, I'm really not sure what flavor profile would be good. Just going to have to make THIS and adjust to taste, (if needed)! Thanks again guys! I promise to become a member as soon as I physically can ❤
I have recently started brewing after at least 10yrs and I'm sooooo keen to try make some mead and or your beer/mead 110% subbed for any goodies you have offered. cheers!
I love the editing. This braggot sounds like fun and I hope you try some of those ideas you tossed out there at the end while referencing your meadowfoam mead.
You replied to someone talking about an idea from this video. Here's the one year taste of the barleywine though: th-cam.com/video/MWk68-hFhn4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4jLskI5JdXm6_oIC
BJCPStyles M4A: Braggot. Sounds delicious. Got plenty of ideas going in my head right now. I’m getting some tropical honey with a friend soon and I’ve made both beers and meads. Definitely going to have a fun time figuring out some good hops for it.😊
Great video. The music additions were great. Always enjoy seeing a new brew. Gonna have to give this a try. Would you have additional beers you could use ? Thank you
I've got a couple bochet braggots going right now. I opted for no hops (not a fan of hoppy beers and I figured I'd get some bittering from the heavily caramelized honey). The first one tasted quite good after primary with just a little avocado honey backsweetening even without carbonation, but I guess I didn't use enough stabilizing chemicals because it started back up. The other is still in primary.
Very excited for this one! I have tried making a braggot a couple times, and it has been just short of awesome...something is missing, not sure what. The cool part is that it's very easy to make a high gravity beer this way, the honey really Turbo charges it. Thanks for continuing to make cool stuff!❤
Tip for carbonating in plastic bottle, squeeze the bottle with lid off until your brew reaches top of bottle then put lid on while squeezing, as it carbonates the bottle will fill out, now when it's had it'll be nice and fizzy!
@CitySteadingBrews you should definitely give it a go, not only does purging the O2 give you more room for more CO2 before the bottle feels solid but because you start with a squashed bottle you get a visual guide to how much CO2 is produced. I'd also give the bottle a good shake and then cold crash once the bottle is hard.
I made a big ol 3 gallon batch* of your LME beer recipe for mom's day. Turned out okay, she likes it mixed with a red beer. Aunt thought it was way too hoppy, gram thought it needed more hops. Haven't heard back from the rest of the testers yet. I rarely drink anything and despise even the smell of beer, let alone the taste, but I still watch these videos cuz they're fun. Thanks for being awesome. *Wanted to use the whole LME jar, pointless to have it sit in the cupboard forever plus my 1 gallon fermenters were already in use. If I do it again I'll try several one gallon batches to experiment.
4:28 Nothing wrong with using a bag for your hops. They often call them 'hop socks' for a reason. The bags I use were advertised as hop sock but I use them for fruit instead.
I love watching you two. Y'all are couples goals, if I wasn't single that is. 😂. You make the idea of home brewing look so manageable, it's become something I plan to begin.
I recently made a honey wheat IPA braggot that was so tasty. I used a nice local to me wildflower honey and the nose on the braggot was all honey and incredible. Thanks for this video!
Can’t wait for mine to be done thanks for the videos. I’ve probably bought most of the stuff y’all use so far I’ve made a blueberry/apple, blackberry with orange blossom that was so good I’ve now got another batch going and now I have your best metheglin and a braggot going
@@CitySteadingBrews the blackberry/orange I used was 2lbs of private select frozen blackberries from Kroger, 3lbs of McCoys Orange blossom honey off Amazon (highly recommend) my ending target gravity was 1.110-1.115 ended at 14.8% for a 1 gallon batch and I backsweetened to taste and I want to say this is yalls fault I’m full in on the deep end without floaties on mead so thanks for the new hobby. Lalvin 71b btw 1/4 teaspoon of wine tannins, 1/2teaspoon fermaid-o and pectic enzymes.
I can't wait to see what you think of the Meadowfoam!!! I sent it to you and I'm ecstatic you like it. Imo it tastes like cream soda when finished, so unique and amazing. I've made three batches with it including a coffee Mead with it and holy wow is it amazing! Thanks for the awesome content and I can't wait to see how your batch comes out. I may be able to send you some more in the near future if you want to try the dark braggot brew, it's sounds incredible!
I have accidentally made a carrot sherry wine!! And it's amazing! A big oxidised sherry taste at the front. Juicy fruit flavours in the middle. And a brief faint carrot aftertaste. I started bottling my mature wine 6 months ago, but I suffered a series of unfortunately tragic events. And as a result I left the demijohn half full of wine and half full of oxygen filled air for 6 months. And now I sherry :)
It totally is a recipe that can be made for any type of beer. I love my wheat extract and Bavarian wheat yeast. We're working on variations of it. Standard Wit, fruited, tea beer, white ipa, dunkle. So many with just a simple change here and there
To quote Robocop, "I LIKE it!!!" Funny moment was that I got a commercial right around 9:40, just as the dramatic music was coming to a crescendo, and it came back to "BOOM!" I'm looking forward to trying this. I have a quart of LME left over, as well as a stout kit I think I will augment. Thanks for the ideas!
I made a "Fake Out Stout" as an outright mead, but now I am tempted to find a solid stout DME and use melter honey for the braggot addition. I may even look at making a Hefeweisen using orange blossom honey since orange peel is a common addition for those or even adding mango honey to do a braggot version of a beer my wife loves called Mango Cart.
I've never wanted to homebrew beer because it's so much more "fussy" than meads and fruit wines, but you may have tempted me. This reminds me of a local craft beer I enjoy called "Blood and Honey" (Revolver Brewing Co.) which is a medium ale flavored with honey and blood orange.
Another great video! I'd love to try this as soon as I can!!! I have a quick question about storing beer and braggart. Using swing tops bottles, what is the shelf life of these beverages? I don't drink a lot, but I would love to have an "inventory" that with a wider selection of options. For dark braggot, perhaps buckwheat honey, but to make things interesting, bochet the buckwheat honey before adding it to your hot wort. This will give it a caramel flavor. In addition to that substitute Snowberry honey for the sugar for carbonation. This would give it a toffee-candy-like undertone.
Since your channel is named the way it is, you definitely could walk into the beer territory. As a curious homebrewer I found that I wanted to learn about every category as I gained more experience. And when you think about it, they're all linked in some way anyway. Mead and wine (grapes) - pyment Mead and cider (apples) - Cyser Mead and beer - Braggot Beer and wine - Sour beer (with fries and berries. a bit fuzzy link her but you get my point 🙂) Beer and cider - Graf? Go for it! 👍😁
I've made a few Braggots, all from a liquid malt extract beer kit. It came with the hops already in it. No need to boil at all. 0.5 kg BrewFerm Belgian Brown LME. (Heated in 2 litres of water to dissolve easier.) 1 kg Honey. Diluted to 5 litres. Yeast + Airlock and Bob's your uncle. Bottled a few weeks later with priming sugar and 'insurance yeast' And re-closed and in the fridge LME last for ages.
Just did the second gravity read for a snake bite graft/ bragged started brewing two weeks ago. I am glad you mentioned Safale s 4 yeast can get 13% or higher when the information I have read said 9-11% abv. My original gravity read was 1.109 and my second reading was 1.000 and my first thought was did I do something wrong because that means this brew is 14.7%abv. I had used half of a gallon of apple cider, simmered 5 @14.9 oz cans of Guinness for a hour to get it really concentrated so I can use it as an Guinness malt extract. I had used two lbs of buckwheat honey, 1 tsp of fermaid-0 yeast nutrient, 1/2 tsp of pectic enzyme and wine tannin as well as a few lemon peels. I had bottled one 25.4 oz bottle of this batch and the rest I am using to make a huge batch of snake bite mustard.
You should check out White labs in San Diego, they serve split batches of beer that are made with different yeast strains, and show how much yeast can change a recipe. They also give cool tours of how they make their yeast strains.
I have actually made onion wine and roasted onion wine (same recipe, just roasted the onion first). We use it in cooking all the time. Though my husband KO'd a whole bottle last night. 😢 1/2 lb sweet onions 1/2 lb potatos (I think I used reds) 1 lb white raisins 2.25 lbs of sugar 2 tsp acid blend (I left out because I didn't have it at the time) 1 campden tablet 1 PKG wine yeast (I used EC-1118) Water to a gallon. Chop onions and potatoes and boil until potatoes are soft (put in mesh bag if wanted). Strain off and press pulp. Put everything but the yeast into a fermentor minus the yeast. Wait 24 hours then add yeast. Ferment as usual. This recipe comes from the, extremely poorly made book, called Winemakers Recipe Handbook. The above recipe does need tweeking but I haven't made it again yet.
Keep an eye open for Guiness West Indian Porter. It is tough to find in the UK (Waitrose has it sometimes), but if you ever see it in the USA, try it. It is sublime!
Just finished my first ever beer - your coffee stout recipe - and it got rave reviews from our DnD group! Tomorrow I get to have my first taste of my chocolate covered cherry wine - which is my first time playing with Crio Bru. I personally don't care for beer, but I imagine a chocolate stout braggot would go over very well with my husband and our friends! They're already looking forward to the peanut butter porter that I promised, lol.
We combine several of your videos to make our Chocolate Raspberry Jam Porter with and without habanero and use honey to adjust our desired ABV. We have started to let them age 10-12 weeks before kegging.
Hi, have you ever used Maltodextrin in a braggot? It seems you have achieved a good result without it. Great videos and so informative, thank you. Cheers
Braggots seem similar to a Black & Tan. Personally, I enjoy a nice Black & Tan, so I'm thinking a braggot would really tickle my fancy. Now I'm thinking of small additions and changes for flavor's sake: stick with the Amber DME, mash a small amount of Honey Malt and a very small amount of dehusked CARAFA grain, use Ames Farm honey with their hint of sunflower seed, and go with Fuggle hops for its very mild sweetness meant for porters.
Another fantastic video, keep up the great work. Silly question and I may have missed something here if so I am sorry. The 42g of suger seemed to do really well but how does this translate in to grams per litre?
i love your shirt saying Odins brewary. is it actually a place ore yours brewary? i live in south Africa. would love to try brew this sometime at home.
I got my first auto siphon the other day and I ordered the wrong one lol it's like 3 feet long 🤣🤣🤣 gotta ordered a smaller one but it made me think of your guys unusual sized stuff 😂😂
recently made White House Honey Ale (supposedly Obamas recipe)... recipe only called for 2oz honey... i had to knock it up a notch and added 8oz... patiently waiting for it to finish... great vid!... if you like very dark beer try Surlys Darkness, a barrel aged imperial stout... mmmmmmmmm
9:37 was expecting a spill... I almost feel cheated :3 36:56 Chocolate Stout Braggot Bochet! 41:26 why don't you like dogs? "I Had A Bad Experience" nice movie reference! (remake of the Italian job with marky mark)
Do you have a recipe or ideas for how to make (non-alcpholic) cola? I just inherited a relative's homebrew supplies, and among the stuff was a bag of crown caps labeled "cola." So now I obviously must make cola. Another thing that was in there was half a three-piece airlock stuck in a bung...the bung is made of _cork,_ which I will now find a way to put on display. When did rubber bungs become a thing?
Based on when I knew him , when he died, and how much dust was on everything, it could easily date back to the 80s. I also don't know when homebrewing itself became popular. Shrug
I grew up in england and never liked the taste of beer, it always tasted like someone else had drunk it before me and repeated it lol. OTOH there is Shandy which is beer with lemonaid in it and I did like that~ I could never make beer, I think the smell would drive me out of the house but I would probably like the end product :)
I've bottled 10 months after fermentation (life happened) a 5% beer, no additional yeast, and it bottle carbonated just fine in 2 weeks. That's yeast for you... Would I doubt it after a mere week or two? Not personally. Maybe the higher abv makes a difference ... just 2c.
Hey Brian just watched this video and I have a question, my son-in-law asked me to make a braggot and I was wondering, I have a batch of base mead going now and thought of back sweetening with lme and then dry hopping in secondary your thoughts
Thought we would try a little different editing style on this one... hope you like it!
Riff brotha
P.S. I'm glad you were not wiped out by a tornado. You're probably glad of that too.
Excellent production value. 🍺🍺🍺
Thank you.
Honest feedback: The music for the pouring was spot on and fun, the interjectory 4th wall cuts were fun, but the music for the 'honesty' part was a bit too sad feeling. Overall net positive changes and I like it! Best part, trying something new. You always do a great job editing (man I hate editing) but love that you don't stick to your guns and try new things.
Sparkling Fortified Chocolate Stout Braggot, the kind of thought that makes you turn your head to the side and then smile after a moment.
Lol
Anyone critiquing what you guys do is totally missing the point! Love all your videos, I got into mead making because of how easy and accessible you make it look. Thank you thank you thank you 🥰
Happy to help 👍
The dramatic effect & music on the pour was awesome! Nice touch...love it!!!
Thanks!
This is so exciting. I’m actually a beer maker hanging out here to learn about Mead. You just collided the two worlds in one luscious sounding drink. I will be trying this. Thanks!
Awesome!
STOUT BRAGGOT! yes! That sounds like an amazing idea, i too prefer stouts and would love to see more and see how you both do it.
I have learned from making hot Cocoa that the easiest way of avoiding clumps is, start with powder and then pour in the tiniest amount of water and mix that so that you have a thick paste, and then you can add the rest off the water ☺️☺️
I love the music on pour into the fermenter. The seriousness in y'alls faces is memorable.
This sounds really delicious. I've made a bunch of beers (kits, mostly) and last winter tried your spiced mead recipe and it blew my mind. Love the idea of this combo.
Working towards this very recipe hopefully get it done soon!
Now, this is a "Beer" I'd be willing to make!
Less back breaking work and MORE FLAVOR!
Love Amber Bock beer anyway.
I usually like my beers super hoppy, but with the honey, I'm really not sure what flavor profile would be good.
Just going to have to make THIS and adjust to taste, (if needed)!
Thanks again guys!
I promise to become a member as soon as I physically can ❤
I have recently started brewing after at least 10yrs and I'm sooooo keen to try make some mead and or your beer/mead 110% subbed for any goodies you have offered. cheers!
You guys are great, thanks for all the useful info, keep up the great work.
Our pleasure!
Derica’s hair is so pretty!!
Especially pretty when she has it in braids!
@@julietardos5044 Yes - I commented during the first part of the video when it was braided and you could see all highlights woven in. 🥰
Thank you for this video. I loved watching it. Entertaining and informative. 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love the editing. This braggot sounds like fun and I hope you try some of those ideas you tossed out there at the end while referencing your meadowfoam mead.
It is so interesting to see y'all expand your horizons.
Barleywine braggot sounds great!
It does!
Update on the barleywine please
This literally came out today.
@@CitySteadingBrews I was referring to an older brew vid y'all made a barleywine once right?
You replied to someone talking about an idea from this video. Here's the one year taste of the barleywine though: th-cam.com/video/MWk68-hFhn4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4jLskI5JdXm6_oIC
Loved it!!! It cracks me up she still makes you blush!!!
BJCPStyles M4A: Braggot. Sounds delicious. Got plenty of ideas going in my head right now. I’m getting some tropical honey with a friend soon and I’ve made both beers and meads. Definitely going to have a fun time figuring out some good hops for it.😊
I am so happy that "Steve " is being made on CSB I am so pumped you are the best !!!!!! Sláinte ☘
Great video. The music additions were great. Always enjoy seeing a new brew. Gonna have to give this a try. Would you have additional beers you could use ?
Thank you
What do you mean additional beers?
@@CitySteadingBrews
I'm sorry. Different malts.
Plenty of options to make different brews here.
I've got a couple bochet braggots going right now. I opted for no hops (not a fan of hoppy beers and I figured I'd get some bittering from the heavily caramelized honey). The first one tasted quite good after primary with just a little avocado honey backsweetening even without carbonation, but I guess I didn't use enough stabilizing chemicals because it started back up. The other is still in primary.
Can you call it backsweetening if it’s with Avocado honey?
It's still honey.
Very excited for this one! I have tried making a braggot a couple times, and it has been just short of awesome...something is missing, not sure what. The cool part is that it's very easy to make a high gravity beer this way, the honey really Turbo charges it. Thanks for continuing to make cool stuff!❤
Tip for carbonating in plastic bottle, squeeze the bottle with lid off until your brew reaches top of bottle then put lid on while squeezing, as it carbonates the bottle will fill out, now when it's had it'll be nice and fizzy!
I've tried so many ways to test a plastic bottle. It's just not a reliable method.
@CitySteadingBrews you should definitely give it a go, not only does purging the O2 give you more room for more CO2 before the bottle feels solid but because you start with a squashed bottle you get a visual guide to how much CO2 is produced. I'd also give the bottle a good shake and then cold crash once the bottle is hard.
I made a big ol 3 gallon batch* of your LME beer recipe for mom's day. Turned out okay, she likes it mixed with a red beer. Aunt thought it was way too hoppy, gram thought it needed more hops. Haven't heard back from the rest of the testers yet.
I rarely drink anything and despise even the smell of beer, let alone the taste, but I still watch these videos cuz they're fun. Thanks for being awesome.
*Wanted to use the whole LME jar, pointless to have it sit in the cupboard forever plus my 1 gallon fermenters were already in use. If I do it again I'll try several one gallon batches to experiment.
Felt inspired by this idea, so I have one on the go! Almost done fermenting. Used hopped dme to make it even easier!
I made this same thing about a week ago and it's fermenting right now. I thought it was amazing that you used the same dry malt as I did!
Wonderful!
Try to make a Jalapeño Ale. There’s a brewery around me that does one and it’s amazing and I think Brian would love it too.
4:28 Nothing wrong with using a bag for your hops. They often call them 'hop socks' for a reason.
The bags I use were advertised as hop sock but I use them for fruit instead.
I LOVE the pour music 😂
It’s summer! How about a blueberry or orange braggot? I liked the additional background sounds.
We're under a tornado watch. Ooo, we should hang out in the room with tons of glass surrounding us.
Lol love y'all. That's dedication to the craft.
If we stopped working every time there was some kind of weather thing here, we'd never record anything, lol.
@@CitySteadingBrews Fair enough 🤣
I love watching you two. Y'all are couples goals, if I wasn't single that is. 😂. You make the idea of home brewing look so manageable, it's become something I plan to begin.
😊 thank you
The chocolate braggot stout sounds delicious!
I've done open fermentations before where I just loosely covered my fermenter (usually a brew bucket). Even with a Hefeweizen, no mess.
I recently made a honey wheat IPA braggot that was so tasty. I used a nice local to me wildflower honey and the nose on the braggot was all honey and incredible. Thanks for this video!
Glad you liked it!
Can’t wait for mine to be done thanks for the videos. I’ve probably bought most of the stuff y’all use so far I’ve made a blueberry/apple, blackberry with orange blossom that was so good I’ve now got another batch going and now I have your best metheglin and a braggot going
Glad you like them!
@@CitySteadingBrews the blackberry/orange I used was 2lbs of private select frozen blackberries from Kroger, 3lbs of McCoys Orange blossom honey off Amazon (highly recommend) my ending target gravity was 1.110-1.115 ended at 14.8% for a 1 gallon batch and I backsweetened to taste and I want to say this is yalls fault I’m full in on the deep end without floaties on mead so thanks for the new hobby. Lalvin 71b btw 1/4 teaspoon of wine tannins, 1/2teaspoon fermaid-o and pectic enzymes.
I currently have a bochet braggot going that I hope comes out tasting like a butterbeer!
I can't wait to see what you think of the Meadowfoam!!! I sent it to you and I'm ecstatic you like it. Imo it tastes like cream soda when finished, so unique and amazing. I've made three batches with it including a coffee Mead with it and holy wow is it amazing! Thanks for the awesome content and I can't wait to see how your batch comes out. I may be able to send you some more in the near future if you want to try the dark braggot brew, it's sounds incredible!
Thank you! So far it smells incredible.
I have accidentally made a carrot sherry wine!!
And it's amazing!
A big oxidised sherry taste at the front. Juicy fruit flavours in the middle. And a brief faint carrot aftertaste.
I started bottling my mature wine 6 months ago, but I suffered a series of unfortunately tragic events.
And as a result I left the demijohn half full of wine and half full of oxygen filled air for 6 months.
And now I sherry :)
It totally is a recipe that can be made for any type of beer. I love my wheat extract and Bavarian wheat yeast. We're working on variations of it. Standard Wit, fruited, tea beer, white ipa, dunkle. So many with just a simple change here and there
Quite true.
To quote Robocop, "I LIKE it!!!" Funny moment was that I got a commercial right around 9:40, just as the dramatic music was coming to a crescendo, and it came back to "BOOM!"
I'm looking forward to trying this. I have a quart of LME left over, as well as a stout kit I think I will augment. Thanks for the ideas!
I made a "Fake Out Stout" as an outright mead, but now I am tempted to find a solid stout DME and use melter honey for the braggot addition. I may even look at making a Hefeweisen using orange blossom honey since orange peel is a common addition for those or even adding mango honey to do a braggot version of a beer my wife loves called Mango Cart.
Cracking me up with the dramatic tunes🤣
I've never wanted to homebrew beer because it's so much more "fussy" than meads and fruit wines, but you may have tempted me. This reminds me of a local craft beer I enjoy called "Blood and Honey" (Revolver Brewing Co.) which is a medium ale flavored with honey and blood orange.
Enjoyed the video as always.
Another great video! I'd love to try this as soon as I can!!! I have a quick question about storing beer and braggart. Using swing tops bottles, what is the shelf life of these beverages? I don't drink a lot, but I would love to have an "inventory" that with a wider selection of options. For dark braggot, perhaps buckwheat honey, but to make things interesting, bochet the buckwheat honey before adding it to your hot wort. This will give it a caramel flavor. In addition to that substitute Snowberry honey for the sugar for carbonation. This would give it a toffee-candy-like undertone.
We get years out of them.
Since your channel is named the way it is, you definitely could walk into the beer territory. As a curious homebrewer I found that I wanted to learn about every category as I gained more experience.
And when you think about it, they're all linked in some way anyway.
Mead and wine (grapes) - pyment
Mead and cider (apples) - Cyser
Mead and beer - Braggot
Beer and wine - Sour beer (with fries and berries. a bit fuzzy link her but you get my point 🙂)
Beer and cider - Graf?
Go for it! 👍😁
We have many beer videos 👍
Stout bouchet braggot - done that 5-6 times (whole grain). It is soooo good.
I've made a few Braggots, all from a liquid malt extract beer kit. It came with the hops already in it. No need to boil at all.
0.5 kg BrewFerm Belgian Brown LME. (Heated in 2 litres of water to dissolve easier.) 1 kg Honey. Diluted to 5 litres. Yeast + Airlock and Bob's your uncle.
Bottled a few weeks later with priming sugar and 'insurance yeast'
And re-closed and in the fridge LME last for ages.
That's it, you've done it. I have subscribed.
Hey I’m fine with experimenting I’m thinking about doing a braggot now because of this video
Just did the second gravity read for a snake bite graft/ bragged started brewing two weeks ago. I am glad you mentioned Safale s 4 yeast can get 13% or higher when the information I have read said 9-11% abv. My original gravity read was 1.109 and my second reading was 1.000 and my first thought was did I do something wrong because that means this brew is 14.7%abv. I had used half of a gallon of apple cider, simmered 5 @14.9 oz cans of Guinness for a hour to get it really concentrated so I can use it as an Guinness malt extract. I had used two lbs of buckwheat honey, 1 tsp of fermaid-0 yeast nutrient, 1/2 tsp of pectic enzyme and wine tannin as well as a few lemon peels. I had bottled one 25.4 oz bottle of this batch and the rest I am using to make a huge batch of snake bite mustard.
I have made a barley wine bragget it turned out really good
thank you for doing these videos
You should check out White labs in San Diego, they serve split batches of beer that are made with different yeast strains, and show how much yeast can change a recipe. They also give cool tours of how they make their yeast strains.
Next time I travel to Calofornia 😀
This looks good. Thanks for the idea
Now that's what I call a head on a glass of ale!!! 😍😍😍
24:53 LOL!!!!
I have actually made onion wine and roasted onion wine (same recipe, just roasted the onion first). We use it in cooking all the time. Though my husband KO'd a whole bottle last night. 😢
1/2 lb sweet onions
1/2 lb potatos (I think I used reds)
1 lb white raisins
2.25 lbs of sugar
2 tsp acid blend (I left out because I didn't have it at the time)
1 campden tablet
1 PKG wine yeast (I used EC-1118)
Water to a gallon.
Chop onions and potatoes and boil until potatoes are soft (put in mesh bag if wanted). Strain off and press pulp.
Put everything but the yeast into a fermentor minus the yeast. Wait 24 hours then add yeast.
Ferment as usual.
This recipe comes from the, extremely poorly made book, called Winemakers Recipe Handbook. The above recipe does need tweeking but I haven't made it again yet.
I've been sitting on some avocado honey that I think I will likely make a Braggot with. I think I will be using some Munich malt extract I found.
Keep an eye open for Guiness West Indian Porter. It is tough to find in the UK (Waitrose has it sometimes), but if you ever see it in the USA, try it. It is sublime!
Thanks for the tip!
Just finished my first ever beer - your coffee stout recipe - and it got rave reviews from our DnD group! Tomorrow I get to have my first taste of my chocolate covered cherry wine - which is my first time playing with Crio Bru.
I personally don't care for beer, but I imagine a chocolate stout braggot would go over very well with my husband and our friends! They're already looking forward to the peanut butter porter that I promised, lol.
The ob porter is amazing...
I use EC-1118. I think is doing a great job.
I enjoy your videos, I purchased the cap and regulator, and there were no instructions, for instance, what is the allen wrench for.
Adjusting the fit I assume. I use it as shown in the video.
We combine several of your videos to make our Chocolate Raspberry Jam Porter with and without habanero and use honey to adjust our desired ABV. We have started to let them age 10-12 weeks before kegging.
Interesting...
Hi, have you ever used Maltodextrin in a braggot? It seems you have achieved a good result without it. Great videos and so informative, thank you. Cheers
Nope, never used it.
I highly suggest you guys make a black IPA if you're into your dark ales and want to explore new styles and hops.
We really don't like hops that much and I don't like IPA's.
Lol! liked the pour build up :)
The suspense was killin me
Braggots seem similar to a Black & Tan. Personally, I enjoy a nice Black & Tan, so I'm thinking a braggot would really tickle my fancy.
Now I'm thinking of small additions and changes for flavor's sake: stick with the Amber DME, mash a small amount of Honey Malt and a very small amount of dehusked CARAFA grain, use Ames Farm honey with their hint of sunflower seed, and go with Fuggle hops for its very mild sweetness meant for porters.
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i like braggot i see it semi often up hear in the north wes of england, as we get a lot of welsh breweries supplyign round here
I'm not a beer fan, but some of the family are. This sounds good.
If you guys want to make a darker mead to mix beer with you could try buckwheat honey.
We have tried. Buckwheat... not a huge fan tbh. I would rather use darker malts for a darker braggot.
What a great idea!
You should make a porter with Bochet honey!! I think that would be amazing
Could try that.
Another fantastic video, keep up the great work.
Silly question and I may have missed something here if so I am sorry. The 42g of suger seemed to do really well but how does this translate in to grams per litre?
Well... there's 3.785 liters in a gallon so just divide 42 by that and it's about 11.1 g/l
@@CitySteadingBrews Ah thankyou that is what I had missed. So there was 1 US gallon of final product.
Thanks again
i love your shirt saying Odins brewary. is it actually a place ore yours brewary? i live in south Africa. would love to try brew this sometime at home.
It's just a shirt we made up.
@CitySteadingBrews it's cool I love it..
I can't wait for my mead
Looks great..love the comment "ribbed" 😂😂😂 had me laughing out loud at the traffic light. For 5 gal. Just multiply everything by 5?
Yup. Except yeast. A full packet is fine.
I got my first auto siphon the other day and I ordered the wrong one lol it's like 3 feet long 🤣🤣🤣 gotta ordered a smaller one but it made me think of your guys unusual sized stuff 😂😂
We have links to the gear we use in the description of our videos 😀
recently made White House Honey Ale (supposedly Obamas recipe)... recipe only called for 2oz honey... i had to knock it up a notch and added 8oz... patiently waiting for it to finish... great vid!... if you like very dark beer try Surlys Darkness, a barrel aged imperial stout... mmmmmmmmm
I have 20 liters of dates' must fermenting for 5 days. Smells delicious. I miscalculated the sugar to add. Double. I hope is not gonna be sticky wine.
Cool!
The color is great. Cognac like.
And then there's people like me, who doesn't really care what you're doing as long as you're doing it (we'll be watching anyhow) x)
Have y'all given up on the mini keg? I could have sworn Brian was excited to use it.
Nope, just don't need it every time.
much easy if you mix the dme with some warm water in a blender....
9:37 was expecting a spill... I almost feel cheated :3
36:56 Chocolate Stout Braggot Bochet!
41:26 why don't you like dogs? "I Had A Bad Experience" nice movie reference! (remake of the Italian job with marky mark)
I learned something new today. Didn't even know this was a thing.
Cool!
great video cheers
Thanks!
Very interesting
Do you have a recipe or ideas for how to make (non-alcpholic) cola? I just inherited a relative's homebrew supplies, and among the stuff was a bag of crown caps labeled "cola." So now I obviously must make cola.
Another thing that was in there was half a three-piece airlock stuck in a bung...the bung is made of _cork,_ which I will now find a way to put on display. When did rubber bungs become a thing?
We really don't for cola...
not sure when rubber took over but it was a while ago, lol.
Based on when I knew him , when he died, and how much dust was on everything, it could easily date back to the 80s. I also don't know when homebrewing itself became popular. Shrug
I grew up in england and never liked the taste of beer, it always tasted like someone else had drunk it before me and repeated it lol. OTOH there is Shandy which is beer with lemonaid in it and I did like that~ I could never make beer, I think the smell would drive me out of the house but I would probably like the end product :)
Could you use 1 pound of Liquid Malt Extract in lieu of the Dry Malt Extract?
I think they are highly equal yes.
WOOO SPADDLE!
I've bottled 10 months after fermentation (life happened) a 5% beer, no additional yeast, and it bottle carbonated just fine in 2 weeks. That's yeast for you... Would I doubt it after a mere week or two? Not personally. Maybe the higher abv makes a difference ... just 2c.
That's why we call it insurance. You never know you need it until you need it.
Also FYI the "spaddle" is out of stock, so there was some action on that this morning. I have 2 on backorder.
Oh wow...
Amazon is already out of the hops!! No ideas when it will be back in stock. Any thoughts on a substitute? Would love to try this sooner than later.
There should be more than one tettnang hops available. a.co/d/8MhHjYQ
I'm curious. Is there a reason why you didn't add the insurance yeast through the whole batch like you did with the carbonation sugar?
Because putting it into the bottle works better. This way you ensure yeast in each bottle.
Hey Brian just watched this video and I have a question, my son-in-law asked me to make a braggot and I was wondering, I have a batch of base mead going now and thought of back sweetening with lme and then dry hopping in secondary your thoughts
It's not really braggot and might not have the same flavor profile but you can if you want. Might add malty notes to the mead.
@@CitySteadingBrews thanks Brian I think I'll give it a try