I am a new home-brewer, having only one batch under my belt, and am trying to clone CORONA
Mexican Cerveza. Why would you want to do that, you say?
For me the first order of business in this home-brewing deal is to sell my wife on the idea - that
means showing her that I can make a CORONA Beer. Can anyone offer a recipe for making this beer?
My first attempt was drinkable but lacked flavor and did not have the characteristics of a CORONA. I
used the following in my first batch:
- WYEAST #2308 Munich lager liquid yeast
- 1 lb. 20 lovabond 6-row caramel crystal malt (steeped 30 min. in boil)
- 44 oz. Dutch Light Dry Malt
- 1 3.3 lb. packet of light malt extract
- 1 3.3 lb. packet of rice extract
- 1 tsp. irish moss
- 1 oz. 4.9 Aplpha Tettenang Bittering hops pellets (2/3 at start of boil,
1/3 15 minutes from end)
- 1 oz. 3.9 Alpha Saaz Finishing Hops pellets (5 minutes from end of boil)
- 1 oz.fining gelatin (added in secondary fermentation stage)
- 3/4 cup corn sugar (for priming)
I guess that I probably should have used one of the Czech. yeasts. The two that are immediately
available to me are #2124 (Czech. traditioal Saaz, clean, malty), and #2278 (Czech. Pils Yeast,
Classic dry finish with rich maltiness).
When I say that this batch lacked flavor, the main thing that it lacked was the "bite" on the back of
your tongue that you typically associate with beer. Can anyone speculate what I might have done
wrong? The only lead I have so far is that I have heard that fining gelatin may remove some flavor
from beer.