JJSH's Brew Blog

Planning a brew to put down for Christmas, which is only 12 weeks away, so anything huge is out of the window as I don't have sufficient...

The Kentucky Common has finished at 1010, giving a pleasing 4.73% abv and apparent attenuation of 78%, which is within yeast specifications....

After a week, the experimental brew has dropped to between 1010 and 1012. It still looked fairly effervescent and active so it may have a co...

Well, this is interesting. It's took off, with the Inkbird keeping the temp between 16 & 17. It must have been fairly vigorous, as i...

I wanted to try to use up the various odds and ends I had hanging around. Yeast wise, I wanted to use the last remaining Crossmyloof yeast t...

A recipe from Ron Pattinson's book , which I won't reproduce here, apart to say that despite being a Pale Ale, rather than an IPA, i...

I've wanted to brew a recipe from Ron Pattinsons 'The Home Brewers Guide to Vintage Beer' for a long time, the problem was, whic...