{"id":63,"date":"2009-12-19T13:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2010-08-27T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:05:30","slug":"batch-5-10-mexican-cerveza","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=63","title":{"rendered":"Batch #6-10: Mexican Cerveza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Style<\/td>\nMexican Cerveza<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ingredients<\/td>\nView Here<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brewing Date:<\/td>\nTuesday, July 6, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Fermentation:<\/td>\nTuesday, July 6, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original Gravity:<\/td>\n1.034<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secondary Fermentation:<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bottling Date:<\/td>\nWednesday, July 14, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Gravity:<\/td>\n1.010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Date:<\/td>\nFriday, August 20, 2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alcohol by volume:<\/td>\n3.2% (raw), 3.7% (conditioned)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brand:<\/strong><\/td>\nMaster-Yeast Theatre<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Name:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Flask of Zorro<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This will be a first-time Cerveza.<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/p>\n

This was a rather uneventful brewing session.\u00a0 This looks like a 3.X% range brew, judging from the initial gravity.\u00a0 That would be quite nice for a non-complex summer-style brew.<\/p>\n

I did not do a yeast starter for this batch: I forgot to start this earlier, and didn’t want to wait another day.\u00a0 The Wyeast was “whacked” to let the nutrient get things going after I took the package out of the fridge,\u00a0 and 7 hours later the package looked like an inflated balloon.\u00a0 I just gave the wort a good swirl after putting in the yeast.<\/p>\n

Sunday, 11 Jul: The bubbling cycle intervals were at about 50 seconds. \u00a0I had a busy schedule, which only allowed me to bottle on Wednesday, so I counted on the fermentation being done by then.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 14 Jul: Took a final gravity reading and began bottling. \u00a0My siphon hose and the racking cane gave me problems holding a seal for the siphon, so I ended up using only the hose after a few failed attempts. \u00a0It caught a bit of trum once or twice but worked fine. \u00a0I have to find a better way to siphon.<\/p>\n

Yield was 53x 12oz bottles. \u00a0For the priming sugar this time, I elected to put 1\/4 cup of corn sugar into 1 cup of water and boil it, then add the cooled mixture to the bottling bucket before siphoning. \u00a0I have noticed that using this method tends to make a smoother head on the beer, compared to putting small amounts of raw corn sugar in the bottle directly.<\/p>\n

Sunday, 1 August: tried the first bottle.\u00a0 There is a lot of trum in the bottles, probably due to filtering problems when siphoning.\u00a0 But there is an excellent head during the pour, and it has a clean, crisp taste.\u00a0 I’m very pleased with this batch, and I normally don’t like corn-based beer.\u00a0 This beer will be very pleasing to the tongue and body on a hot summer day.<\/p>\n

Friday, 20 Aug: The beer is just plain smooth and tasty.\u00a0 Everyone who tried it had basically the same opinion as I did: it was just plain refreshing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Style Mexican Cerveza Ingredients View Here Brewing Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Primary Fermentation: Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Original Gravity: 1.034 Secondary Fermentation: n\/a Bottling Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Final Gravity: 1.010 Release Date: Friday, August 20, 2010 Alcohol by volume: 3.2% (raw), 3.7% (conditioned) Brand: Master-Yeast Theatre Release Name: The Flask of Zorro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/342"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}