My Loco Beer is now fermenting with some “Midland” yeast from Crossmyloof Brew, their equivalent of the standard “Nottingham” strain. It turns out I did overshoot the target gravity, hitting 1.042, but not by as much as I thought. I have put the recipes I use into spreadsheets so I can calculate the ingredients (I’m not brewing 19l batches and I sometimes make substitutions). I’d entered 1.034 into one field as the target but it should have been 1.040, so I’ve generally been closer than I thought. Good job I’ve still got the book on hand!

That should take a week or so to ferment and then I’ll be ready to move onto the next one.