Jay's Brewing Blog

A few weekends ago grad students came into Jay’s Brewing and wanted to ask some questions about home brewing.  They came up with this video but also check out their website that they put up.  Pretty legit. Since then we have moved.  Here are some pictures from our new shop!

When you’re looking at yeast when it comes to home brewing, normally you see a few things about the yeast: 1) Attenuation 2) Flocculation 3) Alcohol Tolerance 4) Flavor Profile. Alcohol tolerance and flavor profile are easily understood.  We have a post all about flocculation as well.  But what is Attenuation? Attenuation is normally expressed […]

Nielsen: Mainstream Domestic, Imported Beer Sales Remain Sluggish While Crafts Soar December 8, 2011 The U.S. beer market continues to struggle, according to the latest numbers from Nielsen. Off-premise volumes declined 1.9% in the most recent 52-week period (ending November 12) to 1.38 billion cases. The outlook appeared brighter on a value basis, as dollar sales […]

SRM? It stands for Standard Research Method.  Now that we have that cleared up and that means nothing to most people, what is it? It’s a scale for color.   Europe has one that is called EBC but we’re not even getting into that.  It’s so rare to see recipes with an EBC but if […]

You know you’re dating a homebrewer when the Pale Ale has priority in the front seat.

The biggest thing that separates extract with specialty grain brewers to all-grain brewers is that with all-grain brewers you need a vessel called a, “Mash-Tun”.  You can buy these online but honestly I don’t see the point.  You can make them for a fraction of the cost and you don’t need any special tools. But before I […]

We all brew beer but it’s done in different ways.   I hear a ton of different approaches.  Usually people will fall into one of the following personalities when brewing. My Garage Is A Tool Shop Brewer These homebrewers will make everything themselves.  Name a tool that you need, they have two of them.  Most […]

There is one phrase that is commonly said in homebrewing, “99% of brewing is cleaning, 1% is following directions.” So what is clean? Well there is really 3 levels of cleanliness in my opinion. Taking a quick look at what it takes to clean and sanitize to make sure that you beer turns out the […]