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Bochet

A medieval French mead made from caramelized honey, offering complex, dark, and toffee-like flavors

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Bochet

Bochet (Black Mead) — Tasting History

Caramel-scented, lightly spiced mead made with burnt honey...

The Quest to Recreate a Lost and ‘Terrifying’ Medieval Mead - Gastro Obscura

It starts with a cauldron, an open flame, and a good measure of raw honey. Then—double, double, toil and trouble—stir constantly until the honey spits black.....

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Bochet Mead and How to Easily Caramelize Honey - Brewing Mischief

A walkthrough on how to easily caramelize honey for use in traditional Bochet-style meads, melomels, metheglins, and braggots...

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Slow and Steady — Slow Cooker Bochet – Canadian Homebrewers Association

Bochet, a mead that is made with caramelized honey, is a great way to use a more generic honey like wildflower as the caramelizing of honey adds an additional layer of flavour that can consist of c…...

Bochet – Burnt Honey Mead, 1393 – Game of Brews

Thoughts: The smell of this mead in progress is awesome. The whole house smells of toffee and burnt sugar, and, inexplicably, brownies, and the delicious aroma lasts for days. Coming home to that s…...

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Brew Log: Bochet | Mad AlcheMead

A bochet is a type of mead that is made by first cooking the honey until it is caramelized. The process of burning or cooking the honey darkens and thickens it significantly. The longer it is cooked…...

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Caramel Apple Bochet - City Steading Brews

How to make Mead. The Caramel Apple Bochet. Bit more...

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Intrepid brewer risks scalding to recreate recipe for long-lost medieval mead | Ars Technica

The recipe for bochet was lost for centuries, until it was rediscovered in 2009...

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