Home Brewed (part two)

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

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