More brewing today. This time the recipe was for Arkells 3B, which I understand to refer to “Best Bitter Beer”. I’ve made it before but not since early 2018 and, as I thought about what to call this batch, I thought of a conversation I’d recently had which touched on a massive Swedish-Swiss company called ABB. Apparently they do all sorts of things but I came across them in a very brief part-time job I did before finishing up my time at York as an early morning janitor for a branch of ABB transportation, which made railway carriages… which is why my ABB Beer has been christened Loco beer this time round.

I’ll get the vital statistic of the original gravity (OG) tomorrow morning once it has finished cooling but the process seemed to go pretty smoothly as a whole. It will be interesting to see if I get close to the target starting point of 1.034, which I’ve overshot by varying amounts on past goes.

I also sampled the first bottle of my recent Molly Ale (the small bottle from the end of the run with quite a lot of sediment). I managed to pour it fairly clear and it is tasting decent but I think I’ll give the rest until at least towards the end of this month, as it was only bottled just over a week ago.