Blown Top Braggart

Classification: honey ale, braggot, mead, extract

Source: Subhash Chandra Roy (roy@mcnc.org) 7/29/92

The strength indicates a barley wine style, the liberal use of honey indicates a braggart, and the use of wheat indicates I ran out of barley malt extract.

Ingredients:

3.3 pounds, wildflower honey
3.3 pounds, amber malt extract
2 pounds, wheat extract
1 pound, light malt extract
1/2 pound, 10L crystal malt
2 ounces, Northern Brewer hops (8.0%), 30 minute boil
2 ounces, Kent Goldings pellets (4.6%), 20 minute boil
1/2 ounce, Kent Goldings pellets, 15 minute boil
1/2 ounce, Kent Goldings pellets, finishing (10 minutes)
Irish moss, last 5 minutes
Whitbread ale yeast
1/2 teaspoon, yeast energizer