Brew Number

4 and 5

Style

Mexican MXV 5/11 and MXV 7/11

Ingredients

Mexican kit, not sure, Black Rock?

1 kg light liquid malt from Welshpool

Pilsener enzyme supplied with kit

Brewing notes

Kit method.

Added 50% more sugar when bottling, still using home made capper.

Tasting notes

Definite improvement in carbonation with extra priming, didn’t lose any bottles or caps.  Nice malty Mexican taste, but not quite as dry as Brew 1 from memory.  Did a double batch, but still finished this brew pretty fast.

5 April – from the 5/11 batch 5 months old.  Good big bubble head, continuing in glass, but cidery/winey flavour developing.  Dry on the nose, but lacking in body.  A somewhat characterless, easily quaffed, OK beer.  5/10

5 April – from the 7/11 batch.  Dry, slightly citrus on the nose.  Amber slightly cloudy in colour.  Typical dry malty slightly banana taste, clean finish with subtle lemon overtones.  A pretty good Mexican, 7 to 8 out of 10.

29 August – from the 7/11 batch, 9 months old.  Well carbonated, reasonable head, amber colour, very clear.  Good malty Mexican taste, not much fruitiness left, still a 7 to 8 out of 10.