Jay's Brewing Blog

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 […]

I’ve been talking about how to making a Jockey Box for a while.  I still haven’t made one because I’ve been looking for some good directions.  I think I found them.  All of this information can be found here, I just tried to condense it a bit better but the general directions and the pictures […]

“What malt extract is better, dry or liquid?”  This is a pretty common question that homebrewers ask when deciding which one to use.  I unfortunately don’t have an answer in this post about which one is, “better” only because I don’t believe that there is one which is better.  At the end its preference.  I’ll break […]

A few post ago we put up a post about how the hardness of water effects your brewing efforts.  Well I wanted to find a, “dummy” map to help you out what your water might be like if you live in the USA and you didn’t want to send your water out. I found this […]

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 […]

The water that you use for your brew will make the world of difference.  Most homebrewers don’t give it too much thought, at least I didn’t.  It wasn’t until earlier this week that I was helping trouble shoot a beer and we realized that something was overlooked.  Actually the biggest ingredient was overlooked, water. So […]

I hear about customers having bad experiences with their homebrew and really it can be boiled down to handful of different reasons, and by a handful I mean 9.  I was inspired after reading the beertools blog and decided to come up with my very own, 9 ways to jack  up your beer.  Just know depending on […]

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 […]