Jay's Brewing Blog

One of the easiest ways to save money with homebrewing is culturing your own yeast.  Before you have a knee jerk reaction thinking that it is hard or complicated just know people have doing this since there were pyramids if they can do it, you can too. One reason why you might want to culture your own yeast is if you […]

Everyone has a trick that they know or learned from some one that just saves you time and or makes life easier.  They are the types of tricks that you can’t wait to show off when you have a friend in the room and the reaction is always the same, “wow that’s clever”.  This trick […]

Making beer is one of my biggest passions, but I like to mess around with other brewing projects when I get bored with beer though. The nice thing with brewing is a lot of the equipment is the same from beer to wine so you really don’t have to invest in a whole heck of […]

There’s a lot of recipes that you find on the internet or in books that either have white labs or wyeast yeast, but rarely does it have what the equivalent one is in the other brand.  At Jay’s Brewing we sell White Labs yeast.  I am partial to white labs because I’ve only had good experiences with […]

Sometimes you just don’t nail your brew when it comes to the tasting part.  To your defense, there’s a lot of things that could have happened. It’s best not to have a camera around when tasting a bad batch of beer because your face will make some very odd expressions.  Regardless there are off flavors that […]

I found an article while looking on the internet about how more people are home brewing.  I copy and pasted it below, found it to be very interesting as well as put in my two cents. I hope that you find it as interesting. Results Indicate Growth, Increased Diversity Boulder, CO • July 20, 2011—For the […]

If your even thinking about making a stout this winter, this is a good one to make.  The stout is actually going to be two different stouts 1) Whiskey Oak Aged Dry Stout 2) Rum Oak Aged Dry Stout.  The thing with this stout, is that you need to plan it out in advance because […]

Since it’s fall and we have already done a Pumpkin Ale, it’s time to stay frosty and keep up with cool brews to show off to friends and family.  This one is quite different, Maple Syrup Amber.  In my opinion this is one that will ease you into the stout making season. This recipe is […]

Its a good thing to know the hop profiles that you put in your beer as well as the hop substitutes for that particular beer that you are making.  So many times there are these weird out of the blue hop shortages that happen. The worst was just a few years back which homebrew shops […]

It’s time to make the pumpkin ale brew taste like a pumpkin pie. If your totally lost on what you need to do to get up to this point or what I’m talking about, it may be a good idea to refresh yourself and reread the blog that this corresponds to this one. As a […]