Atlantic Brother Adams Honey Bragget Ale
Akin to a barley wine, we suggest this ale as an after dinner drink.
It has a truly unique & sophisticated flavor due to the use of wildflower honey as the catalyst for the production of alcohol. We simply use pale malt and a very small amount of Target hops in this Belgian style ale. The bulk of the body, color and sweetness come from the 2,000 lbs. of honey we add to the boil.
The Brother is cellared for up to a year before it is bottled, which helps to marry the flavors and create the complex palate in this Bragget.
It has a truly unique & sophisticated flavor due to the use of wildflower honey as the catalyst for the production of alcohol. We simply use pale malt and a very small amount of Target hops in this Belgian style ale. The bulk of the body, color and sweetness come from the 2,000 lbs. of honey we add to the boil.
The Brother is cellared for up to a year before it is bottled, which helps to marry the flavors and create the complex palate in this Bragget.
3.5
251 reviews
Bar Harbor, United States
Community reviews
Torpedo bottle. Almost no head. Brownish color. Aroma is lots of honey goodness, and some sugar sweet malt. Medium sweetness. Little carbonation. Warming alcohol. A sipper. Nice honey notes. Interesting.
On tap at Mainely Meats right next to the brewery. Pours a faintly hazed gold with a thin white to beige head. Big and sweet, soft oxidization, spicy wheat. Long honey sweetness into spicy alcohol. Warm and fairly smooth.
Bottle from puddintane and his free beer contest. Pours hazy brown, no head. Nose of raisen and honey. Taste is sweet with the elements in the nose, somewhat prominent alchohol burn. Body is full.
2008 bottle...Pours a slightly hazy amber with a thin white head. Aroma has notable honey...slightly sweet...touch of citrus. Flavor has honey and caramel malt...earthy hoppiness. Mouthfeel is medium and the finish is earthy/bitter/honey and very warming.
A - Pours a ruby brown with a 1 finger, slightly off-white head that sinks into a frothy ring. Leaves thin horizontal lines of lace.
S - Sugary dark fruit dipped into fragrant wild flower honey. Cherries, red apples, and cinnamon spice.
T - Sweet malt blended with a heavy dose of honey. Concentrated cherries. Subtle citrus hops add some bite to round out the sweet malt. It has an woody-oak alcohol flavor. The honey is more pronounced in the nose than in the flavor.
The honey is not shy and works beautifully with the malt. The hops are mellow. The carbonation and spice help with balance.
This seems to be more along the lines of an English Barleywine. A nice slow sipper.
Serving type: bottle
10-04-2010
Bottle shared at the Santa Cruz tasting in January. I’m not getting much of the complexity and depth of the description. Just mountains of honey with a slightly bitter herbal finish.
December 27th, 2011 - I completely missed the fact that this beer is a marriage between mead and beer, using honey as fermentation fuel, but adding hops and malt to turn this into a hybrid ale. Semi-cloudy and colored like a dark clover honey with a thin, off-white head, this ale presents itself as a honeyed beer or sudsy mead early on. The smell features faint aromas of fig and raisin and touches of honey, but this layered baklava-esque smell is thin and almost imperceptible to my clumsy olfactory. The nose’s tempered sweetness returns in the flavor, with a light and ethereal glob of honey, giving this brew a flavor halo resembling a sweet amber ale. It’s not especially exciting, and the aftertaste is short and leaves little motivation to come back for repeated sips and visits, save for the simple barley wine alcohol driven echo. Still, I think I’d prefer a mead itself, rather than a strange amalgamation.
Bottle in ME. This is a really unique Bragget that ages really well. I have tried it on a number of occasions. Not as overly sweet as you might imagine. lots of charecter and depth to this. If you see a bottle pick it up and hide it in your cellar.
2012.12.23 - 22oz bottle in pint glass. Pours a lovely dark, orange-y amber. Little to no head to speak of. Aroma is nicely sweet, obvious honey, a bit burnt caramel perhaps, maybe a bit sweet apple as another reviewer noted. As others noted, the honey does outshine any maltiness. Weyerbacher Sixteen is one of my favorite beers and in comparison Brother Adam's is lighter both in color and body and has less alcohol bite despite being higher in abv. Sixteen beckons me to keep drinking with a tasty balance of honey sweetness and alcohol warmth. Brother Adam's beckons by posing as a lighter session beer with a prominent but subtle sweetness. Little to no carbonation. Tasty, tasty stuff. I just returned from Vermont with two bottles and I am now regretting not buying a few more.
3yr old bottle. Rare Vos tumbler. A milky brown slurry pour with barely a wisp of head.
Smells of doughy malt, apples, & berries. Herbal honey & booze trailing.
Taste is itchy/starchy barley wine upfront, quickly thinning out. Lighter then expected. Middle is slightly yeasty, but very fruity, with sharp cherry & murky prune-like notions. Butterscotch. Mild medicinal bitterness. The alcohol keeps in check & never flames up. Dry, toasty finish. Very mellow carbonation. Some oxidation on the tail end, but tolerable.
Very decent, but hard to commit to.
Moderate robust fruity malt aroma with a light amount of honey. Clear amber color with a medium white head. Sweet beginning that build to a sweet honey finish. Also gets a little bit of an alcohol burn in the finish.
Tasting at Papsø’s
Hazy red-amber color, small head. Aroma of mature apples, a bit footy too. Sourish beer flavor with some honey; moderate sweetness, with some vegetables; quite evident alcohol too, boozy finish. Chaotic and not very pleasant.
I shared this bottle at a tasting earlier tonight.
2009 Vintage
A: This beer pours slightly hazy and appears burnt orange in color.
S: Honey. Honey. Honey. This beer could attract bears, bees, people with bread and butter knives, etc.
T: Imagine drinking a beer from a bee’s nest, in a good way. The beer is sweet, but not cloying. I must say, this brew is well done. I’m not well versed or experienced when it comes to braggot brews, but this ale seems to be right in line with the style. The honey does outshine the malt character, but it tastes great so I can overlook this imbalance.
M: The feel is of a thin body with a present sweetness. The sweetness is almost entirely derived from the honey, and not cloying.
D: I thought this was very enjoyable. I wouldn’t want a huge quantity of this, or probably any braggot for that matter, but I could certainly see myself sipping on a mug of this ancient beverage while strolling around Renn Fest.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 12-22-2010
Delicious "dessert beer." Simple honey aroma. Nice amber color. Sweet but cloying taste with a hint of bitterness that lingers. Creamy mouth feel, similar to but less than stout. Overall, a really nice beer to sip after dinner.
22oz bottle in a snifter. Pours brown with a lacy, light beige head. Aroma of honey, some floral/bitter hops, and caramel malts. A very interesting flavor with the honey. Average texture. A pretty good beer.
22 oz. bottle. Pours a lightly hazed amber with a thin linen white head that was gone by the second sip and left very little lace. Pleasant aroma of malt and honey. The flavor begins with some watered down malt. The underlying brew seems weak in body and flavor. The honey rescues this beer and adds a flavor and mild sweetness. Mild bitterness at the finish. Not something I would necessarily seek out again, but not bad either.
22oz bottle from Downeast Beverage Co in Portland, ME. Pours a cloudy brown-orange colored body with a thin, frothy, beige head that dissipates quickly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is sweet honey with some bready toffees and pretty fruity with apricots, raisins, apples, and a light citrus. A bit of a chewy butter to the malts along with a few florals. Flavor is malty sweet up front with lots of honey and some syrupy toffees with a light breadiness. Florals, a light spice, and some fruity notes of citrus, apricot, and raisin in the middle before this dries pretty well with a touch of bitterness, honey, and a light alcohol warmth. Fairly lengthy aftertaste following a medium, chewy body and a moderate carbonation. Overall, a sweeter barleywine with a lot of mead qualities. Big honey character with some fruitiness and florals while this finishes pretty dry and stays fairly well balanced for the size. Not bad.
Picked this up many years ago at Sam’s, Durham. Why did I wait so long to drink this? Dunno but I was surprised and delighted to find the brew to be far less sweet than anticipated. Taste of almost tart apple crossed with a honeyed barleywine to some extent. Enjoyed it.
Poured from 1 pint bottle purchased from Atlantic brewery. Color is a deep apple cider brown with very little head. Little floating sediment yet cloudy. Aroma is roasted malt, honey and hint a alcohol. Taste is complex. More malt and alcohol in the front with natural honey in the finish. Mouthfeel is thick like an imperial stout. Leaves the mouth dry with a mildly sweet afternotes. I’m surprised overall, I saw Barley Wine on the front, and I’m not really a fan of that style.. but this one was a nice surprise. Its worth the purchase. Glad I have another warm one aging as we speak.
Aroma is of sweet malt and light honey. Appearance is of a dark honey color, almost reddish. The taste is of sweet honey, almost sugary bread, light butterscotch, spicy mix. As it sits on your palate after a sip, it warms, probably from the higher alcohol content. Overall, this was very good. I had this with a good cigar, and it was the perfect compliment. It was pricey at $11 for a little over a pint, but it was delicious. I would buy a few of these if I come across them again, and put them away for a good drink with a stogie.
Dark amber with off white head. Big malty nose, hint of spice? malt leads hops but alcohol slips in at 3rd. Coats tongue but not overly full on the palate. Alcohol begins to become more prominent and distracting.
Pours a slightly cloudy reddish orange amber color with a decent fluffy white head that has moderate retention. Smells of honey, sweet bready malt, caramel, butterscotch, slightly spicy with a hint of oxidation. It really screams English ale to me if that makes any kind of sense. Taste is malty and sweet. Lots of ripe fruit mixed with a honey bready thing. Slightly spicy most of the way through, but finishes with a twinge of alcohol and a lingering earthy bitterness. Medium to thick body, light carbonation, sweet almost sticky mouthfeel. I found this quite complex, but I feel the flavors are still competing, maybe this needs some time. Its good now, but I suspect it might be great with some age.
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear amber - white head. Candy, sweetness, honey, minerals, fruity, licorice notes, barley notes, ryebread. light alcoholic, wooden, peppery.
Thanks to my father for sharing this bottle. The beer pours a hazy brownish-orange color with a small white head. The aroma is full of honey, but I also get some light floral notes. The flavor is more complex than the aroma. The honey and floral notes are present once again, but I also get a ton of sugary sweetness and some dark fruit notes. The alcohol is very noticeable. Medium mouthfeel and low carbonation.
(Sample at Papsø’s) Pours a clear amber with little yeast sediments. Aroma is malty syrupy with alcohol and a honey flavour. Medium-body, medium carbonation oily texture and a sweet, boozy finish. Taste is sweet and boozy.
Bottle at Papsø.
Clear orange coloured with a small white head.
Sweet and fruity aroma of honey and caramel.
Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, honey and alcohol.
Warming alcoholic finish.
22 fl oz bottle. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is phyenolic, honey herbal and light toasted malt. Dry spiced, phenolic and dry malty flavoured. Light bitter and dry phenolic finish.
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin yellowish head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, honey, flowers, malt, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of honey, spices, over ripe fruits, and some malt, leading to a dry finish.
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of wavers1. Pours an almost clear pale amber with a small off-white head. Sweet fruity, oxidized aroma. Medium body, sweet caramel, oxidized fruits and phenols. Boozy, yeasty finish. 180911
Clover and honey nose. Clear amber, thin head. Honey flavor, but beerish body. Alcohol rather noticeable. Nicely balanced between beer and mead. Usually I find braggots to be more one way or the other. A joy to drink.