Cerveza Piñata - Mexican Lager - All Grain Recipe

 

Our second attempt at a Mexican lager and we're going for a slightly different approach and recipe. Although we're including the crucial ingredient in a Mexican lager - some kind of corn derivative like maize, we're going for a slightly darker beer than the usual pilsner malt base like we did in our first mexican lager (which turned out great).

This recipe was taken from the 20West Mexican lager by pixelHop Beer Co, who shared it on the Spike Brewing recipe blog. It has won a couple of awards for pixelHop - as good a reference for a recipe as you can get so we figured we'd give it a go ourselves. We had to adjust it slightly for our own system but the key percentages and numbers remain the same. We're also using some slightly different hops and yeast.

We're looking forward to seeing how it turns out from having a little more character and complexity in the malt bill from the inclusion of Vienna and Munich malts in addition to some regular 2 row and Pilsner malts.

Vitals

Batch Volume: 23L 
Boil Time: 60 minutes
Brewhouse Efficiency: 75%

Original Gravity: 1.047
Final Gravity: 1.013
IBU (Tinseth): 20
BU/GU: 0.42
Colour: 8.3 EBC
Expected ABV: 4.5%

Mash

Mash In: 65°C - 60 minutes
Mash Out: 75°C - 10 minutes

Fermentables

1.9kg - Gladfield American Ale Malt
1.1kg - Gladfield Pilsner Malt
0.9kg - Gladfield Malted Maize
0.6kg - Gladfield Vienna Malt
0.3kg - Gladfield Munich Malt

Hops

60 mins - Hallertau Tradition - 15 IBU
10 mins - Hallertau Tradition - 5 IBU

Yeast

Mangrove Jack's M84 Bohemian Lager  Yeast (Dry - 1 Packet)

Fermentation

15°C - 12 days

Carbonation

2.4 CO2-vol

Water Profile 

Brewfather "Yellow Balanced"

Ca2+ (Calcium): 43
Mg2+ (Magnesium): 7
Na+ (Sodium): 24
Cl- (Chloride): 59
SO42- (Sulfate): 75
HCO3- (Bicarbonate): 38

Want to see how it turned out? Check out the BrewZilla Brew Day article linked below.

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