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Now it's time for a nice table of Home Brewed details. Not as many entries as I would have liked, but better than nothing. It gives us a chance to see in Andrew Campbell's description was correct.

There's one area where straight off I can see something that doesn't tally: not all of the examples were bottled beers. A couple were draught, at least before WW II.

I'm surprised to see the difference is strength between examples brewed at different breweries in Bristol. The Home Brewed from Georges and Rogers are pretty different. At 1036.7º, the one from Rogers is about the same strength as standard Mild of the day. Whereas Georges, at over 1050º, was closer in strength to a Burton. It's odd because beers with the same name brewed in the same town were usually generally similar.

You can see that WW II knocked down the strength, though Georges remained a respectable 1043º. The Starkey, Knight and Ford version is more like what I would expect a Brown Ale of the period to be, a little over 1030º.

There are only two entries with a colour given, unfortunately. Both are indeed brown, Starkey, Knight and Ford's somewhat darker than Georges. Nothing that contradicts Andrew Campbell's description is all I can really say.

Here's the table:



Home Brewed


Year
Brewer
Beer
Price
size
package
Acidity
FG
OG
colour
ABV
App. Atten-uation


1928
Devenish
Home Brewed
7d
pint
bottled

1002.7
1032.6

3.90
91.72%


1922
Georges
Home Brewed Ale

pint
draught

1011
1052.1

5.35
78.89%


1928
Georges
Home Brewed
8.5d
pint
bottled

1010.4
1055.3

5.86
81.19%


1930
Georges
Home Brewed
6d
half pint
bottled
0.06
1012
1056.6

5.81
78.80%


1936
Georges
Home Brewed
8.5d
pint
bottled
0.06
1016.2
1055.6

5.11
70.86%


1937
Georges
Home Brewed
8.5d
pint
bottled
0.07
1016.7
1053.2

4.73
68.61%


1952
Georges
Home Brew
11d
half pint
bottled
0.08
1009.9
1043.3
1.5 + 40
4.34
77.14%


1994
Home
Home Brewed

pint
bottled




3.60



1932
Hoskins
Home Brewed
8d
pint
bottled

1008.8
1043.7

4.54
79.86%


1922
Rogers
Home Brewed Ale

pint
draught

1008.4
1036.7

3.67
77.11%


1948
Starkey, Knight & Ford
Home Brewed
1/6d
pint
bottled
0.05
1008.3
1033.4
40 + 5.5
3.25
75.15%


Sources:


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001


Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/002


The Best of British Bottled Beer



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Were Home Ales the last brewery to produce something called Home Brewed? I suspect they might have been.

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