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Okay I was wondering if this seems like a good recipe for a braggot(porter style), as I haven't made one before.

0.5# Chocolate Malt
0.75# Crystal 60L Mlt
0.75# Caraamber Malt
3# Buckwheat Honey(from Flying Bee Ranch)
2 oz Fuggle hop pellets
4.5 oz priming sugar
Yeast: WLP009 Australian Ale Vial

What I'm not sure of is will the flavors mesh will there be enough honey in it to be able to call it a braggot or if it would just be a honey porter. I'm making this the same as my AHS Australian Porter. As that came out good.
 
There's no defined hard line for the honey to grain ratio to make it a braggot vs. a honey beer. Some say for a braggot it should be 50% honey to 50% malt, or there about. But I say brew it up and see what you get.

I will say I would caution your yeast choice as I ran your ingredients through an online recipe calculator and it estimated it at 1.112. I am not sure if that yeast can handle a beverage that big.

Perhaps you could step feed the honey? Start off with 1.5 lbs and then once fermentation gets going add the rest?

Please keep us posted as I am curious how this will turn out.
 
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