Jay Brooks's Blog

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Jay Brooks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Birthday: March 03

Bio: I've been writing about beer for over 15 years, which is when my first book was published, and currently write features and columns for most of the beer magazines available, both trade and consumer oriented, along with my local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle. I'm the former General Manager of the Celebrator Beer News, a national magazine that covers craft beer. I'm also a beer judge and frequently can found at beer festivals throughout the U.S. I cover all aspects of the beer industry from the business side of things down to the brewing itself. I'm a former homebrewer and commercial brewer and was educated (in brewing science) at U.C. Davis and have taken courses from the Siebel Institute in Chicago. I also have a B.A. in Communications. I work from my home in northern California where my most important job is taking care of my two kids, Porter (7) and Alice (4). My other hobbies include photography, especially stereo photography, collecting View-Master reels, reading, music, documentary films and traveling. I'm originally from Pennsylvania and grew up in Shillington, which is near Reading. I've lived in New York City, Virginia and North Carolina but have been in California since 1986. I'm also a veteran and former musician. I disdain most sports as a distraction, but root for the Green Bay Packers. I'm currently putting the finishing touches on my first novel, "The Ghosts of Autumn," a semi-fictional memoir, "Under the Table," and a proposal for my second beer book, to be called "Living Beer."