Mr. Webb's Ale and Bragot

Ingredients

• Five Bushels of Malt
• a quarter of a Pound of Hops
• two Ounces to each Hogshead
• eight or ten pound, (according as your taste liketh more or less honey)
• triple as much herbs
• triple as much spice

Method

1. 1

   Boil a quarter of a pound of hops in all the water for two hogsheads.

2. 2

   Use good beer yeast, not ale yeast.

3. 3

   For Bragot, take the first running of ale and boil honey in it, adding triple the amount of herbs and spices compared to small mead.

4. 4

   Hang a bag of bruised spices in the barrel while drawing it.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MR. WEBB'S ALE AND BRAGOT Five Bushels of Malt will make two Hogsheads. The first running makes one very good Hogshead, io8 SIR KENELMS DIGBIS but not very strong ; the second is very weak. To this proportion boil a quarter of a Pound of Hops in all thewater that is to make the two Hogsheads ; that is, two Ounces to each Hogshead. You put your water to the Malt in the Ordinary way. Boil it well, when you come to work it with yest, take very good Beer-yest, not Ale-yest. To make Bragot, He takes the first running of such Ale, and boils a less proportion of Honey in it, then when He makes His ordinary Meath ; but dubble or triple as much spice and herbs. As for Example to twenty Gallons of the Strong-wort, he puts eight or ten pound, (according as your taste liketh more or less honey) of honey ; But at least triple as much herbs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.