I made a Mexican Lager using WLP940 and loved it. Great yeast! I pulled 5gal and aged it on toasted coconut. It was delicious!
So what do you all put in your Mexican lager. I use al ot of Vienna malt and flaked maize.
Base malt, dark Munich, corn, chocolate wheat. Sneezles61
What type of corn do you use? Iāll use Vienna, Munich, some white wheat, chocolate malt and flaked maize.
Like you when I think about Mexican lager I think about the darker stuff like Modelo dark or the dark dos XX.
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yes, Modelo negraā¦ I enjoy that oneā¦ Dosequiās dark doesnt quite have the flavor Modelo hasā¦ Just me?
Flaked maize (corn)ā¦ Iāll have to look back in my notesā¦ 15% of my grist? Sneezles61
I donāt think there is flaked corn in Modelo Negraā¦ Maybe but ā¦
āFirst brewed in Tacuba, Mexico in 1925, Modelo Negra, formerly Negra Modelo, is a medium-bodied lager with slow-roasted caramel malts brewed for a rich, smooth taste. Brewed longer to enhance its flavors, Modelo Negra redefines āDark Beerā because it is exceptionally drinkable and remarkably smooth. This Munich Dunkel-style Lager is brewed with galena and super galena hops as well as caramel malt, black malt and two and six row malt barley. These ingredients are meticulously brewed together to give Modelo Negra that bright, rich, amber hue and that iconic, medium-bodied flavor.ā
Never intended to make it a Modelo clone just an inspiration. Mines better, maybe they should use some flaked maize. I just feel a Mexican beer should have maize.
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Iāve read some stuff that sez there is corn in itā¦ Either way, its a good drinkerā¦ True to a real recipeā¦ naw, just getting closeā¦ Its just like musicā¦ learn someone elseās chopsā¦ but donāt try to be just like themā¦ Make it your own. I like that inspiration! Sneezles61
Yes, i agree, make it upā¦ Iām not a fan of flaked cornā¦ or corn in general in my beerā¦ sweet corn picked that morning is another matterā¦ yum
Remember most of the breweries in mexico that you know by name were founded by germans who followed reinheintsgebot so corn would def not be in them. However, TesgĆ¼ino would be inspired and Iād like to try some Pozol
" Maximilian I of Mexico of the House of Habsburg, an Austro-Germanic ruling family. The emperor had his own brewer, who produced Vienna-style dark beers. This influence can be seen in two popular brands of Negra Modelo and Dos Equis Ambar."
Well Max probably didnāt eat tortillas either. But I like nachos with my beer so itās getting corn. And Iāll bet the Aztecs used corn and their beer
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Not to intervene but please understand that Anheuser-Busch was started by German immigrants. They too didnāt follow the reinheitsgebot as they put rice in their beer. The reasonā¦ North America only had six row and the rice cut the protein levels. Flaked maize does the same thing. These immigrants to Mexico suffered the realization. How to make a beer that wasnāt turbid? Cut it with maize.
So is it possible that there is flaked maize in Modela Negra? Absolutely and I would be willing to put money on it that there is. Not to mention flaked maize is cheaper than malt so it would also be a cost saving effort.
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Loopie, what I read was that barley wasnāt as available, but corn was plentifulā¦ Sneezles61
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I still think corn is gross 
and @loopie_beer Mr. Anheuser was foremost a soap manufacturer which explains all that 
Now your insulting the founding fathers of American beer.
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āI for one, will not sit here and have you bad mouth Americaāā¦
Right. America was built on light lager. Love them or hate them itās our heritage. The mega companies that have come to own them not so much love
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Well, lets throw another wrench into the mixā¦ Pumpkin beerā¦ There all kinds of āideasā out thereā¦ I wonāt pull a quote from some e-news telling me about thisā¦ BUTā¦ from my simple way of looking at it through my beer glass, heres my thinnināā¦
They needed the guts of the pumpkin to eatā¦ nourishmentā¦ But the pumpkin, well, Iād bet became a fermenterā¦ They really couldnāt take much in the way of buckets and the such with them when they crossed the ocean ā¦ Thats my take on how pumpkin brews becameā¦ Any others? ā¦ No corn involved too I hope? 
Sneezles61
