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 | |||||||||||
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Were Home Ales the last brewery to produce something called Home Brewed? I suspect they might have been.
6 comments:
Certainly Courage was still producing a bottled beer from the Bristol brewery under the name George's Home Brewed in the late 1970s, possibly later.
Martyn,
be great to know when the George's one disappeared, as it seems to have been a big brand for them.
But 1994 - what could beat that?
I used to quite like Home Mild, clearly the base of that last Home Brewed. Great value for money, it was. Not as good as Shippo's, mind.
Ron,
I think that I have spent the last four days pouring over your blog - and I've only covered the last 8 months...
I would like to fill in the empty hollowness in my life by researching the recipes of the Luton brewer, JW Green. Given its fate, I would imagine that the Whitbread archives may be the place to start, but I thought that I would ask if you had any information first.
I realise that I've gone off-topic, but I don't know how else to contact you.
Thanks,
Jeremy
Jeremy - (1) ask Luton Museum/Luton Local History Library/ Beds County Record Office what they have
(2) - get the Luton News to do a story on your hunt for old JW Green recipes. I'll almost guarantee you'll have elderly Greens/Flowers brewers getting in touch
Jeremy, the good news is that the records you're looking for almost certainly exist. Whitbread were very good at keeping brewing records of companies they took over.
The bad news is that the Whitbread Archive was broken up and spread all over the country. Martyn is probably correct that they will be in an archive somewhere close to Luton.
If you need any help understanding the records when you find them, I'll be happy to help.
Many thanks both.
Why didn't I think of Luton Museum as a starting place? Its about 200 yards away as write this!
One success already. I know where the brass plaque for the registered office ended up. I saw it this morning!
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