Brew Number

13

Style

Mexican MXV 7/12

Ingredients

Brewmart Mexican kit

0.5 kg light malt powder

0.5 kg dextrose

Enzyme that came with kit

Brewing notes

Pitched yeast 3 Dec, added finings after 3 days, bottled 7 Dec with 50% extra carbonation sugar.

Tasting notes

Nice typical malty Mexican, dry taste, enzyme has significantly reduced fruitiness.  A bit too carbonated, had to be poured into a cold wet jug to get rid of the froth.  From the pop sound as the cap was removed from the bottle, hard to believe none of them blew up.

Most of this brew was drunk at the Katanning family Christmas and was very well received as a refreshing dry well carbonated beer for a hot afternoon.  Persuaded a lot of people that home brew can be nice.

April – now has a watery  cidery taste, not nearly as good as when most of it was drunk at 2 weeks old.

September – 9 months old.  This one has survived very nicely, well carbonated, dry Mexican with slight remnant appley taste and aroma.  For longer keeping, half malt may be better than all malt.