Jay's Brewing Blog

Mead in general is pretty easy to make.  Honey, water, yeast – and that’s just about it.  This recipe for mead is called a sack mead.  This mead is sweet, light and true to the mead heritage.  If you refer back to an earlier post you can find out about different types of meads that […]

Plum trees are blossoming right now.  Have too many?  Well that’s not a problem any more.  It’s time to take those extra pieces of fruit and make a delicious wine out of them.  This wine recipe is a dry plum wine. Ingredients  Yield: 1 Gallon 3 pounds black plums 2.5 pounds sugar Juice of 2 oranges 1/4 […]

It’s officially that time to start thinking about Russian Imperials.  In The Summer Time?   Yea, this is the time to make Russian Imperial.  The reason why you want to make your Russian Imperial stout now is because they take so long to mature.  Making a big beer now gives plenty of time for them […]

Some people really enjoy a chewy wheat.  Me personally I kinda like it on the other side.  When I make my wheat beers, I tend to make more that are on the American wheat side. So what is the difference between a German Wheat and an American Wheat?  The real big difference is that with […]

One of the cool things about homebrewing is that you can really make what ever type of recipe that you would like.  Also the thing that I particularly enjoy is that every beer has a story behind it.  Most beers just weren’t created just because.  It was either the time period, the ingredients available, the […]

To start with the, “Mead Project”, I thought a good recipe should be a Melomel.  It will be easy to start with this one because fresh fruit is available at the farmers market as well as at grocery stores. If you recall from our 101 on mead,  melomels are fruit meads.  So this is kinda like a […]

Mead has to be one of the more creative beverages that a brewer can make.  What’s cool about mead is at its core mead is pretty simple.  It consist of: Honey, water, and yeast.  What you can do with it is endless though. There are five different styles of mead, with in these styles there […]

One of the more interesting beers in my opinion has to be the Saison.  It is one of those beers that you can have 10 different Saisons and they could all taste entirely different.  There is one thing that all of them should have in common though, “Funk”.  It’s a term that brewers use to […]

I was told after the last post that I forgot to put some examples of lagers recipes.  Time to correct that mistake.  I’ll blame it on my excitement about the Lager guide. I wanted to give a few examples of lager recipes to get you started in the lager world.  If you want to convert […]

The quest continues for  Belgium beers.  This will be the last of the Belgium beer recipe for a little bit because I don’t want you to get bored or burnt out with one style of beer – leave that up to me, no need to torture yourself over doing one style of beer over and […]