Jay's Brewing Blog

A few months ago, we challenged the loyal customers of Jay’s Brewing to an experiment. We wanted you to come into the shop, pick up some Best Malz Red X malt and make something unique. We went out of the gates with two recipes, a fairly complex Rye IPA and a very straight forward Munich […]

We did a post a while back on how to keep your inspiration regarding brewing your own beer.  One of the ways that I’ve found a lot of inspiration for my own home brewing is to go and try some different beers out.  It’s also just fun to be a critic of different micro beers. You […]

This opinion piece is going to ruffle the feathers of the hop heads out there but I have to stand by what I believe.  This is inspired by going out to the beer fest this past weekend at Bull Run.  It was lot’s of fun and it was exciting to see so many customers out […]

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 […]