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Best Commercial Braggot?

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I'm curious as to what some good braggots are and how they compare to hopped meads?

I don't recall seeing any around here (Cleveland) even in the craft beer and wine stores.

As far as mead, we usually have a lot of melomels, spiced traditionals and cysers.
 
I think you won't find many commercial braggots since there are significant regulatory hurdles. I actually can't think of a commercial meadery that makes one off the top of my head.
 
Haha wow, that is pretty depressing. Do you mean, there are hurdles because itself technically a mead or just on booze in general?

One of the local breweries, who I'm not crazy about, has a blueberry ale with honey added but I imagine the brewing process is much different than a braggot.
 
I know (from watching youtube videos of some meaderies) that in at least some states in the US, meaderies are not allowed to use ANY grain in their meads.
 
Meaderies are classified as wineries for regulatory purposes. Wineries are forbidden from using grain in their products.

Breweries can use limited amounts of other sources of fermentable sugars, but nowhere near the amount required to classify the product as a braggot. In order to do that 50% or more of the sugar must come from honey.
 
And as a data point, here in Ontario, the most easily available meads (Trafalgar brewing co.) are braggots, because restrictions on "beer" are gentler than restrictions on "wine", and anything with barley in it legislatively turns into "beer", while plain fermented honey is "wine".
 
I had a braggot at Costa Rica Meadery that was delicious. They germinated they're local corn and added it to the mash. They used honey from Africanized bees that were feeding on coffee plants and wild flower. One the best brews I've ever had.
 
Commercial braggot is now rarely seen in bars, although versions are available from adventurous craft brewers
 
stoneslab said:
Commercial braggot is now rarely seen in bars, although versions are available from adventurous craft brewers
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Dude. The last post on this was 14 months ago. It's not good manners to drag up dead threads in a forum setting
 
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