Aging Blueberry Bragot

[sfish]

I made this Blueberry Wheat Braggot recipe.

In primary for 4 weeks and bottled on 8-6-15 and gave it a try last night

Results are in. It needs to age. Good malty taste and mouth feel, low hops aroma and hop taste. a good fruty wine charter. A bit hot.

So for how long should it age? It is in the cellar at 68°.

4 gallons batch size
OG 1.082
Fg 1.008
ABV 9.5%
SRM 13 (this was projected, looks more like 30ish and dark red)
24 IBU

.75 lbs Carawheat (8.0%)
.5 lbs Honey Malt (5.3%)
.5 lbs Melanoidin Malt (5.3%)
3.0 lbs DME Wheat (32.0%)
4.0 lbs Honey (42.5%)

.50 oz Sterling (Pellets, 7.5 %AA) boiled 70 min.
.38 oz Sterling (Pellets, 7.50 %AA) boiled 15 min.
.75 oz Tettnanger (Pellets, 5.5 %AA) boiled 1 min.
.12 oz Sterling at 1 min.

6 lb. Blueberries (frozen) smashed and in primary at pitch temp removed after 5 days.

1 TPS cinnamon powder

Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale (Big Starter) pitched at 65° rasied to 78° by mistake for a day. The yeast took off like an explosion raising the temp. Then fermented at 68°

After tasting it was suggested I should have oaked.

 

[chri5]

I brewed a sour cherry braggot December 2013. Goes on the gas this weekend. I don't have the numbers I'm front of me, but I believe it was approx 13% abv and definitely needed at least a year. It's finally good now after 18 months or so.

 

[sfish]

thank you thats quite some time, I will wait.

 

[chri5]

Well I also got very lazy about it lol. It was still pretty rough after the first year. The last 6months of aging helped a lot.