JJSH's Brew Blog

In my attempt to recreate the brown ales from my youth I thought I would start by brewing a Ron Pattinson researched historic recipe, eith...

Back in my youth, the drink of choice for my crowd was either Bateman's XB or XXXB. However, in the late 1980's, there were many a p...

This brew has now had 2 weeks fermenting at 17 degrees, 1 week to 10 days crashing / sort of largering at 4 degrees then the remainde...

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...