{"id":2051,"date":"2017-04-15T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2017-04-10T14:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T21:03:26","slug":"beyond-bottle-wtf-braggot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-wtf-braggot\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: WTF is a Braggot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/flying-fish-exit-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2052\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/flying-fish-exit-3-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/flying-fish-exit-3-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/flying-fish-exit-3.jpg 302w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>Braggots are relatively unfamiliar turf for me: beer plus honey, with everything beyond that a mystery. <em>The Oxford Companion of Beer<\/em> adds that they\u2019re made with malt and honey, ideally the honey in greater abundance, to separate them from honey beers; braggots reside in the space between beers and meads. <em>OCB<\/em>: \u201cHistorical references suggest braggot is a Celtic drink from at least the 12<sup>th<\/sup> century; it is mentioned in <em>The Canterbury Tales.<\/em>\u201d (A modern-ish version reads: \u201cHer mouth was sweet as bragget or as mead \/ Or hoard of apples laid in hay or weed.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Romantic stuff. In <em>The Beer Bible, <\/em>Jeff Alworth adds that \u201cBraggot [&#8230;] is ancient. There is no strict definition beyond honeyed beer, and by that description, braggot goes all the way back to the Sumerians. Archeologists have discovered honeyed beer in pottery from Phrygia from 700 BCE [&#8230;] and in Gaul during roughly the same time period.\u201d In his <em>Radical Brewing<\/em>, Randy Mosher quotes the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, speaking about the Germanic people: \u201c[They] lie on bear skins and drink mead or beer brewed with honey from large drinking horns. They can bear hunger and cold weather easily, but not the thirst.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braggots are not the easiest things to track down. The well-regarded Brother Adam\u2019s Bragget Honey Ale from Atlantic Brewing Co. (\u201cnamed for Brother Adams, a monk from Buckfast Abbey who is credited with saving the bee industry\u201d) was the lone encounter with the style I\u2019ve got notes on. Kuhnhenn Brewing Co. in Warren, Michigan has made a bunch of these over the years, including a Dry Saison Braggot, Imperial Raspberry Braggot, and Heights of Sterling Braggot (dry-hopped with Sterling). If you\u2019re lucky, your local might have a one-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Braggots are relatively unfamiliar turf for me: beer plus honey, with everything beyond that a mystery. The Oxford Companion of Beer adds that they\u2019re made with malt and honey, ideally the honey in greater abundance, to separate them from honey beers; braggots reside in the space between beers and meads. OCB: \u201cHistorical references suggest braggot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[7,4,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beyond the Bottle: WTF is a Braggot? - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-bottle-wtf-braggot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beyond the Bottle: WTF is a Braggot? - Craft Beer Blog from The Beer of the Month Club\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Braggots are relatively unfamiliar turf for me: beer plus honey, with everything beyond that a mystery. 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