Mex Cerveza

[luckyphill]

G'day all

Just tried this brew after 2 weeks in the bottle:

Ingredients:

1 tin coopers Mex Cerv
1 kg Dextrose
300 gms LDM

Tasting notes : To sweet

This was my first brew using Dex and am wondering if using Dex has made it sweet ? also, will the sweetness drop over time with bottle maturity ?

Cheers Phill

[Iron-Haggis]

Dextrose only adds to alcohol content, it does not impart any sweetness to the beer. The LDM would have made it sweeter.

[OldBugman]

Also this sweetness may continue to dissapear after a week or two more, it's only been in the bottle for 2 weeks.

[Dogger Dan]

Thinking wrong yeast, no enzyme

Dogger

[The Proud Anselmo]

Actually I had this problem too, I tried to put in a whole lot of dex and brew enhancer into a Mexican and mine is way too sweet as well.

luckyphill, how long did you leave yours in the fermenter? My first guess at why mine was so sweet was that I didn't leave enough time for all that dex to ferment out, so its still full of sugar. Or is this not the case??

[Ed]

Perhaps the Cervesa kit can is designed with a low bittering rate. The slice of lime should help make up for this and drink it well chilled. Or next time, try adding some extra hops.

Cheers, Ed

[lethaldog]

Maybe like dogger said try using a dry enzyme next time, this will make sure its fully fermented out and dry it up alot

[luckyphill]

Hey "the Proud"..It was in the fermenter for 2 weeks so it should have had heaps of time to ferment out completley. I have a Coopers IPA on at the moment which has 700gms of LDM and about 850 gms of Dex and kit yeast....will be a stong brew I reckon, am bottling today so will taste the hydro reading and see what it is like.


Phill

[AlcoMoo]

I am just about to bottle my mex cerveza tomorrow and by then it will have been in the fermenter for 17 days. I used dry enzyme and just 1kg of brew enhancer (glucose/corn syrup) and on today's taste test, it is not too sweet, but I do still note a hint of cider in there, which I'm hoping will either go with maturing in the bottle, or be unnoticeable when drunk chilled.

I am very pleased with this brew. It is a little bit cloudy though...not too much so, but something I would like to work on. Again, maybe this will clear when bottled and carefully poured. I know that the answer for this is racking, but I only have one fermenter at the moment.

I took a hydro reading today (1.002). If it hasn't changed by tomorrow, I'm bottling. Then I'll do the cold condition in bottle after 2 weeks. Projected alcohol % is around 5.5 - 5.6% .

[damonpeyo]

Hey "the Proud"..It was in the fermenter for 2 weeks so it should have had heaps of time to ferment out completley. I have a Coopers IPA on at the moment which has 700gms of LDM and about 850 gms of Dex and kit yeast....will be a stong brew I reckon, am bottling today so will taste the hydro reading and see what it is like.
Phill

according to calucations from http://www.liquorcraft.com.au/wa.asp?id ... etails=107

Your OG should be 1.052 and the FG should be 1.010 which makes roughly 6.2%

Coopers IPA should only take me less than a week if I was using Safale yeast, but two weeks? I am not sure, maybe ask the expereinced brewers here.

[Matt Wilbur]

Just tasted my first attempt at Mexican Cerveza. I deliberately bottled one stubby for an early taste.

Very impressed. It has only been bottled for a week and a half... LOL.. no bubbles but she is going to be so nice.