Two Brothers Heliocentric Bragot

Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Mead
Warrenville, Illinois USA

This comes across a little lacking. There’s a nice honeyed fruit at the beginning of the aroma and flavor, but little to back it up. This would do well to get some hops or something else to add a level of complexity to the flavor.

From a bomber. The body is very dark gold with a light kahki head. The aroma is definite mead, clover flowers and maple seem to come out as it warms. There is also some light earthy musk. The taste is more mead than beer. Lots of alcohol is present with some honey notes. There is a floral charcter throughout this one. This is decent and I only have had a few bragots to compare. I assume they hit fairly close to what they were trying. The base beer seems to me to be a mild amber type ale. The honey part of the beer gets a little cloying after a while. Best comsumed in smaller amounts. Certainly different.

Received in the homebrew mystery swap. Pretty gold, thin white head. Nose is slightly plastic, honey, somewhat floral with a little light malt and some clay. Flavor is light malt, washed out honey, more plastic. Mouth feel is slick which I’ve experienced with fermented honey in the past.

Does honey alone make this a mead? Surely this is more grain beer than mead! Perhaps braggot or, more generally, hybrid should be added as a category? A very pale, relatively light orangey brown with almost no head at all. Subtle lightly sweet aspect. Some vanilla, a bit of fruity sharpness. Relatively lacking hops with some malt. Low carbonation a bit thick, but not viscous. Lightly sweet up front with appley to wheaty esters. A bit of vanilla again with some light alcohol. The light malt sweetness. Slightly sickly sweetness instead toward the end. A long lingering wheaty aftertaste. Interesting, perhaps a bit complex, but not all that good.

I’m not sure what to think of this, except that it doesn’t remind me of a mead. Pours golden with a tan head. The aroma has bubblegum, cotton candy, honey, floral notes and slightly soapy light butterscotch. Medium tinny body with light sharp carbonation. The flavor starts somewhat astringent with honey, wheat, sharp graininess, some odd creaminess that fills the mouth buy isn’t rich - it’s sort of cottony. The finish is slightly sweet and short lasting. This is more odd and unique than my words can convey. It was worth trying but I won’t need another.

Pours a lighter amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of honey, caramel malts, and some fruits. Flavor isn’t overly sweet but still slightly sweet mostly with honey. Some graininess and just a hint of alcohol on the finish. I was expecting more from this.

2007 release, short blurb and info along the right side of label, sampled in wine glass. Clear appearance, reddish hued orangey golden color, tight off-white head that quickly settled in a thin lacing, a layer of ringed lacing at the top of the glass. A husky grain and herbal nose with a light sweet honey that meshes with alcohol. At the edges is faint smells of green apple slices and lemon. Not as sweet as some other braggots I’ve tried, definitely a lot of blonde ale graininess that cuts down on the any sunflower honey sweetness. The honey does have a nice raw character, mellows out any pale malt sugariness. A mild sour citrus comes out towards the end along with grassy herbs and a cleansing hop spiciness. At the end, honey grains and spicy hops meld together for a nice dry finish. Enough moderate carbonation to give the body a good airy light feel. I think this is a good stab at a braggot by Two Brothers, balanced taste and a pleasant dry sipper. I like the dry finish and the in-check sweetness on this braggot, making this quite drinkable for me, better than a few honey mead and sugary pale malty, overly sweet braggots I’ve tried.

Just very average and bewildering all around. Tastes al fruity, cottony, and strange. Aroma is kind of nice, but strange. Just not filled out and weird. All kinds of strange.