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by Barley Water » Mon Feb 16, 2009 5:32 pm
Actually, that would be a pretty dificult beer to make. You might joke about making light lager like that but there is absolutely nothing to hide mistakes in technique behind (no malt , no hops, you know the drill). Anyway, I know one of the the big yeast suppliers markets a Mexican lager strain which if I remember correctly is the Modelo yeast. I have never seen a Corona clone formulation but I would bet it is corn based rather than rice since maize has such a long history as a major food source in Mexico. You will for sure need to have very good temperature control, very good sanitation and make sure to pitch a lot of healthy yeast other wise you will taste problems. I have had very good luck doing cereal mashes with corn grits, the CAP I do really benefits over even the flaked maize you can purchase in the homebrew supply stores. For some reason, I am not a big fan of using rice in beer, maybe that is just because I never really cared for Bud. Of course, once you make the beer, then you need to bottle it in clear bottles so you can skunk it just like the original (I can't help you there, I usually try to avoid that effect). I guess the only good news is that the lime will cover a multitude of sins, plus of course you want to serve it just north of freezing just to make doubly sure there is no taste going on there.
Latter this year, once the weather warms up, I may try to make an adjunct Vienna Lager. I have had very good luck adding corn to beer, from Fuller's ESB and London Pride clones to CAPs. For Christmas I got a really nice, big stock pot for doing decoctions and it also works really well for doing ceral mashes with corn grits (you can buy grits really cheap in the grocery store here and the results are great). Anyhow, good luck with the Corona clone, I guess love makes people do funny things.
Drinking:Saison (in bottles), Belgian Dubbel (in bottles), Oud Bruin (in bottles), Olde Ale (in bottles),
Abbey Triple (in bottles), Munich Helles, Best Bitter (TT Landlord clone), English IPA
Conditioning: Traditional bock bier, CAP
Fermenting: Munich Dunkel
Next up: Bitter (London Pride like), ESB
So many beers to make, so little time (and cold storage space)
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- I reckon I could knock some out for about 1 Euro per litre max! 
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, ACEUASS - you mentioned that you added Galena hops to the kit, the one I can get hold of is an extract kit which has already been hopped - add water, sugar & yeast and away you go - is that the same one as you used? I've never added hops to a kit but I'd be worried about over hopping it.
, try brewing one of those.