Jay's Brewing Blog

Since March is here and if you have a garden then you know, it’s gonna be planting season (another one of my many hobbies).  What’s cool about homebrewing is you can plant your own hops in your back yard.  With craft beer catching on, you might want to see if your local garden center has […]

I wanted to put this recipe out before you start seeing them.  I love country wines and this is as country as they come.  In my opinion nothing says homemade wine quite like Dandelion Wine.  This is a recipe that I have used in the past and it works out pretty well.  Dandelion Wine.  When […]

So to finish off this series we are going to create a few recipes to show what we have learned.  We have gone through a lot and now it’s time to test the knowledge and put into some practical use. First off let’s do an American Pale Ale (The Sweet Nectar Of Life) Starting off […]

Sorry for the long delay on writing on the blog, we just got internet over the weekend, still trying to get our phone # transferred over.  Things are moving a long though. Related Post Jay’s Brewing Video From Clifton We Have Moved New Pictures Meet Your Maker Mill

Yesterday was our last day in Clifton and now we have moved to to Manassas.   Our new address is 9790 Center St. Manassas VA.  We will be closed Monday and Tuesday but we will be open on Wednesday (Feb 29th 2012).  Wednesday Feb 29th we will be starting our new hours which are 10am-6pm Monday-Saturday. […]

This is a pretty exciting moment for Jay’s Brewing, we got a sign for at our new location!  9 days till opening at our new location, or better put, “It’s the final count down!” For those that don’t know, our new location address is: 9790 Center St. Manassas VA 20110 Last week in Clifton, if […]

The easiest way to change your beer around, is by changing your east.  Our blog has quite a few post on yeast in general, so to save your eyes consider this post as a directory to useful information. When looking at your beer recipe one thing that you need to consider is if it is […]

When it comes to water for brewing it isn’t a thing that keeps me up at night.  Yeast, hops, grains might but water not so much.  With that said there are a few things to note and a few important aspects to consider. I was taught this phrase and maybe this explains a lot why […]

If you are at this point hopefully you have a basic understanding of specialty grains and the hops, now time to get the gist of malt extract.  Malt extract comes in dry (dme) and liquid (lme) form. For ease of this conversation I will be using LME as examples but we do have a conversion chart that […]

We now have a basic understanding of some different types of hops.  It is time to tie everything together with hops and really learn how to use this knowledge for designing your beer. This part on hops is  really subjective, everyone will have their own opinion and there are tons of theories and ways.  So […]