Brew A Mexican Lager

How to brew a Mexican pale lager. Full recipe and mash details to make a stunningly good beer.
Using Saaz and Motueks hops to give a light citrus taste of lime.
More detail at:
www.brewandbuild.co.uk
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[@julianperez5786]

Looks amazing, congratulation, great beer!!

[@ShadowZephyr326]

Great job on nailing the process of brewing a Mexican lager! Your attention to detail really paid off. Can't wait to give your recipe a try and, and see for myself. Keep up the awesome work with your content!

[@brewandbuild]

Thanks a lot for that. I hope it works as well for you as it has me. 🍺🍺

[@MRW3455]

Great you are back and with a beer I definitely have to make. Cheers

[@brewandbuild]

😁 I'm still lurking around, I've got a backlog of about 5 beers I need to edit and get out. Hope you enjoy this one. 👍

[@paulschroeter4987]

i see some real genius in your brewing. the beer looks good. its crystal clear

[@brewandbuild]

Thank you very much for your kind words. I'm always learning though.

[@seanrowland1670]

That is some giant hopper son. i am anxious to try your recipe. Thank you.

[@brewandbuild]

Hope it works out for you. Cheers

[@richardcallaghan2370]

Looks great. As luck would have it I already bought some flaked corn and Mexican lager yeast so I am definitely going to give your recipe a try. Thanks for the great videos.

[@brewandbuild]

That sounds like you're good to go on that. Good luck with the brewing, and I hope it turns out well. 🍺🍺

[@BrewabitRick]

Great looking beer and a very interesting episode as always. Stunning clarity and a beautiful colour. Nice work again great to see you back cheers 👍🍻

[@brewandbuild]

Thanks Rick. A lot been going on, so time to brew and edit has been short (you know how it goes) but I've got a few more videos I need to get edited and punted into the ether soon. 🍺🍺🍺

[@dalejoy193]

Nice job, I use instant Polenta as the corn adjunct. Always nice to see you take on styles. I love German beer and Mexican style is very refreshing. Mittelfreh and Sazz is a good start. As you have stated, lots of modern hops to amplify the style.

[@brewandbuild]

Thank you. 🍺🍺 Polenta is certainly the easiest corn form to purchase from the supermarket. I use flaked if I remember to add a load in when doing a grain order..... but my memory isn't getting any better.... so generally off to the supermarket.....

[@AlanGoodall-zp5ol]

Looks like a great beer, and good video, good to have you back after a break. It was good to hear a bit on the history of mexican brewing. How are you bottling it whist maintaining carbonation? I assume you’re not bottle conditioning

[@brewandbuild]

Cheers for that Alan. Yeah, life gets in the way of editing at times. 🤷 No, not bottle conditioning (although I do for a couple of styles) Instead, I force carbonate after clearing the beers, then I'm using a Blichmann Beer Gun. I carbonate about 0.2 vol over my desired end carbonation level, at 3 degrees c, as we lose some carbonation during bottling. Then we CO2 purge each bottle as we go, and fill and cap. There's some short bits of footage of the bottling on a few of the other videos in places (German Pils South and Honey Pale lager, I think)

[@ronnymuir]

I brewed a Mexican Cerveza recently and tried Cellarscience Baja dry yeast and was pretty happy with the results. Give it a go if you can, wouldn’t mind hearing your thoughts as a comparison.

[@brewandbuild]

I've just been reading about the Baja yeast, that's sounds like it would be an interesting side by side with 940. I'm not saying I will have time to give that a shot (very short at present) but I'm not saying I won't. I'll see.... If I do, I'll let you know. 🍺🍺

[@matthewbinnie5881]

Hello for New Zealand. Great video and sounds like a cracking beer!! It is pronounced mot-you-a-car 😁 I definitely plan to have a crack at this recipe, but unfortunately liquid yeast in many varieties is very hard to come by in NZ. Do you have a dried yeast suggestion? Thanks.

[@brewandbuild]

Thanks for letting me know, Sorry, I'll try harder to get it right next time I use it. On the yeast front.. I have to say that WLP 940 is unique amongst the yeasts that I use/have used, and therefore I couldn't give a yeast that I personally have tried and gives the same result. Some argue that it gives a definable Mexican taste to a beer. I don't know whether I could say I get a certain taste from it, but what I can say, is that it is the most amazingly neutral yest I know of, and therefore it allows whatever ingredients you use in the beer to shine through unadulterated. What I have had mentioned to me today is a dried yeast I hadn't heard of: Cellar Science Baja yeast. The reports I'm reading sound like it might be a dried version of the Modelo yeast. If that's true, then that would be the obvious choice. It may also not be available down there, but might be worth a shot if it is. I'd quite like to do a side by side of the two yeasts to see how it stacks up, but I don't know whether I'm going to get time for that any time soon.

[@billnova1]

Great video! Did you lager this beer after fermentation?

[@brewandbuild]

Thanks for that. Yes it got lagered. I lost track of exactly how long, but it would have been around four to five weeks in the tank before bottling.

[@GMRS4]

Great video! Is this your full time job now? 😂 you look well!

[@brewandbuild]

Cheers, 😂 It may as well be, it certainly takes up plenty of time. I think it's all the beer that gives me that healthy glow.....

[@bradbenski5752]

Great recipe, I would consider trying with Vienna instead of Munich as my understanding is that the darker styles (dos eques amber and Modela Negra use Vienna 12:57)

[@brewandbuild]

Vienna is definitely a great option, and I would say a larger dose of that instead of the Munich would give a very similar result. I would say however, that the percentage is small enough in this recipe that I don't think you would notice a taste difference. I've never been convinced of the Modelo Negra/ Vienna malt thing. I'm a little in the camp of thinking it's more likely Munich malt. I've never found any official Modelo information, it just seems to be that every homebrew recipe has decided it is Vienna malt. If you have direct info pointing to Vienna though, I'd be grateful if you could point me that direction. 🍺🍺

[@bradbenski5752]

@@brewandbuild after I made the comment I noticed your beer color was lighter than the ambers. Relative to your question I did go to the Web sites of Modelo and Dos Equis. Modelo Negra is a Munich Dunkel style, and Dos Equis amber is a Vienna.

[@GarrysGarcia]

I liked the recipe, it looks spectacular. but I wouldn't like to give it the citrus note, rather I would look for something more treacherous. Do you recommend putting SAAZ back after 5 minutes instead of MOTUEKA?

[@brewandbuild]

Yes, absolutely. My original thought was to go for Saaz on both hop additions, and it will result in an excellent pale lager. I understand if the lime note is not quite your thing, however, I feel it really elevates it into something quite unique. Good to hear from you.

[@abhinavarg]

How did it turned out to be so clear. Any secrets??

[@brewandbuild]

To be honest, 99% of the work was done for me during the cold crash. It sat at 3 degrees centigrade on the yeast for about 3 weeks, and then it sat cold for two weeks off the yeast in the unitank. I do fine most things with gelatin and this was no exception. This yeast seems to like to drop clear.

[@m.m.musasi]

hello, tell me about your crusher in more detail or give me a link to it, please)))

[@brewandbuild]

Hi there, It's a Mattmill Master. I keep meaning to do a review of it on my website.... one day..... I have no affiliation with them, but the link to their website is www.mattmill.de/mattmill-master/ I've found it to be a great mill. The rollers are quite narrow, which means the volume it can crush at once is quite small. This means it's certainly not a fast mill. However, speed is not my concern, accuracy and durability are. The narrow rollers mean that the accuracy from one side of the roller to the other is spot on, so all the grain is perfectly crushed at the setting you've chosen. Hope that helps a little.

[@m.m.musasi]

@@brewandbuild thank you so much for the detailed answer, you helped me))))

[@bruceedwards3366]

The hops are pronounced Mot u eka 😊

[@brewandbuild]

Thanks Bruce, I'm hearing that a bit from the Kiwi sector... 😁 Sorry, I'll try to get it right the next time I use it.

[@bruceedwards3366]

@brewandbuild today I cut my motueka plant down, winter here in NewZealand. Funny thing was it was starting to grow new shutes, I grow 10 different hop types of NZ hops.

[@brewandbuild]

I have t say that I'm a bit jealous of that. There was a point where I set out to grow hops here, but it kind of fizzled out as a project. It's something I really need to revisit. Are you growing yours in the ground, or potted?