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Braggot - still or carbonated?

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I tasted the braggot I have quietly aging in my basement and it was good. Do people typically carbonate their braggots or drink them still? I guess I could divide up the batch (3 gallons) and carbonate half and leave half unprimed but is there a traditional expectation about this drink that suggests that it will be drunk one way or the other (more like a beer or more like mead)?
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I think the norm is to carbonate a braggot, but like SilentJimbo, I can't tell you what would be considered traditional with a braggot. I don't even know if braggots have been made for long enough that they'd have traditions associated with them.

You know you like it still, and in my experience with beers at least, carbonation always improved the end product... if it were me, I'd carbonate all of it.
 
Traditionally, malt beverages are carbonated. However, it's always great to experiment.

If you leave some un-carbonated, please let us know how it turns out after it ages.
 
I've had one commercial braggot and it was carbonated, and I liked it.

The one I brewed definitely needed to be carbed to help cut some of the cloying in it. I will know the result of that in 1.5 weeks when it's carbed up (hopefully!)
 
This braggot is definitely not cloying. It is 1/3 beer and 2/3 mead. Starting gravity of the mead was about 1.090 and I fermented that dry and although I never measured the final gravity of the beer it must have been around 1.015 (more or less) with a starting gravity of about 1.065. This braggot is like a complex ale.
 
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