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gday, lookin for a recipe for this spanish beer, "Alhambra 1925". its a ripper, but its not been easy to find a recipe. maybe one of you good people may know something that may help? i had a quick squiz thru these posts but couldnt see it, apologies if imissed it, thanks, jd.

I have never had this beer. I could not find much in searching so I am guessing here.

The style is most likely a Pilsner heading in the Cerveza direction. Appartently has some malty overtones but finishes dry with little hops but a bit of fruit and slight DMS. At 6.5% alcohol we can easily get away with some Dex in this recipe.

I would try:

1x Pilsner
1x Light Unhopped Malt Extract
1 kilo Dextrose
500g Carahell
2x sachets of your favorite hop (I would use Fuggles), one in the full boil and the other steeped at flame out.
S-23 fermented at 8C or the kit yeast fermented at whatever

See where that gets you. If you need more detail or want to be more adventurous with the recipe let us know.

i always thought the term 'cerveza' just meant 'beer' in a diff language?

Yeah it means beer but I guess it lends itself to a typical mexican lager, Corona by far the most popular example, although pacifico and particularly sol are similar I guess

It is not an officical style, but the mexican "cerveza" beers do not really have a style AFAIK. So I call the style "cerveza".

Was an attempt to simplify this recipe and it's explaination, though like IO said, all I really have to go on is what I could find on review sites, and from what I could assume would be available/used by the brewery etc.

thanks for the tips, i dont get onto the net too often but get hooked here when i do, great information here.

i have just put down two batches of a sierra nevada from recipes found here, but ran out of cascade flowers in the second boil so used (a bit less) POR hops instead, sort of aussie/american hybrid?

stupid question maybe, but i dont know what 'carahell' is...sounds like somethin the devil would brew with... and that sounds like fun to me.

thanks again, jd.

Carahell is a very light Crystal malt which can be steeped. Weyerman make it and it is available from ALL GOOD home brew shops

Since you obviously know how to hop I am sure you can work that out for yourself as everyone has different tastes.

Let us know how it turns out.

Sorry to tag on late, but I have just finished a Gran Reserva 1925 (extraordinary) and am looking for the recipe as well. Having read your recipe, I think the hops you mention are wrong becuase I think this veers more towards a light vienna style lager. What I think is the point of difference is the yeast strain used, but I am not sure what it is. The mouthfeel and smoothness of the beer reminds me of a champagne, but I am not sure how this yeast would react in a malt wort.

Any help?

Champagne yeast can be used, but if you do not have kegs (allowing you to chill the beer right down to slow the yeast fermentation) you will get an extremely dry result! I would not recommend it myself.

As for the hops, I guessed, like I said I have never had this beer and only just found a small amount of info on it.