This beer name and style has been rattling around my brain for about 12 years. I tried to make mead as a homebrewer, but it was always a bit shit, so it took me a while to play with it again. Also, honey is a bloody expensive sugar source.

This beer is a bochet and a braggot. Braggot meaning a blend of beer and mead, but this is more like 90% beer 10% mead. A bochet is a far more interesting thing, though. Caramelised honey gives a dark and complex flavour, with notes of honey (obvs) but also, depending on depth of caramelisation, a little hint of burnt marshmallow.

It also scrubs out the eucalyptus character of local honeys, which I felt were not suited to this beer.

Enjoy.