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As homebrew suppliers we are forced to make and reluctantly (of course) drink copious amounts of beer and wine. But amongst my peers there are many who still think homebrew is a hangover from the 80s. Many of them are very cautious, maybe because of their student experiences with cheap beer kits which the drank before it was even bottled! Of those who drink beer, its kinda divided into 2 camps: Guinness and Corona. Ok, a brewer on a budget cant make a realistic draught Guinness without relatively complex nitrogen gas systems etc, but here is the challenge:
- can we make a Corona?
I don't care if its from a kit, or from a grain brewing receipe, or whatever.

Its just that if we could, I'd be able to convince my peers that home brewing has moved on. And then get them to try some decent beers!

So, anybody have a partner who drinks Corona but not homebrewed beer? Mine only drinks our Amarone wine, wont touch the other home made reds, but she drinks Corona when out and about. If I could make a bottled beer that she would think was a Corona . . . .

Brian
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&amp;quot;HomeBrewWest&amp;quot;:3u9g7if0 wrote: I don't care if its from a kit, or from a grain brewing receipe, or whatever.[/quote:3u9g7if0]

The ability to lager is the most dependent factor, controlled fermentation at around 12c and then lager at near 0c for a few weeks

Or you could start of with a blond ale with a neutral yeast like us-05 or Nottingham fermented on the cool side

Another option is america cream ale, but they do generally have a lagering.

Ever noticed that when people build their own cars, they're always nippy little roadsters? No-one ever seems to want to build a replica Fiat Punto at home. Why is that?

Malt, hops and yeast are all intended to produce flavours. Mixing them up and trying to make them produce a beer with virtually no flavour is really hard: it's not in their nature.

The nearet thing I've ever tasted among homebrews is Séan's pseudo-lager[/url:2u3u2lqo]. Maybe substituting the Munich malt and some of the Pale for rice or maize might get you closer to Corona.

Grab a coopers cerveza kit and make that up, then bottle in clear bottles and leave them to stand in the hot sun for a little while, apparently that'll "skunk" the beer ( as the yanks say) and make it like a corona.

My brothers used to be confirmed lager drinkers, heineken or carlsberg in the pub, nothing else. They started drinking my homebrew as it was free. They love it and I never brew lager. Now they've started wondering why they can't get beers like my homebrew in the pub.

Maybe it's just about educating the lager drinkers palette a bit instead of us making them corona. I don't buy the let's make lager and then they will try decent beer thing, I think just get people to try decent beer. Example: my brother loves lambic beer, he's not keen on the beers people usually use to 'convert' lager drinkers though.

I get really annoyed with anyone who says my homebrew will be dodgy stuff that will give them a hangover. A quick one hour explanation of my brewing process with all the technical details and comparisons to commercial breweries usually sorts them out on that point though <!-- s:twisted: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_twisted.gif" alt="" title="Twisted Evil" /><!-- s:twisted: -->

&amp;quot;EoinMag&amp;quot;:12uas6ho wrote: Grab a coopers cerveza kit and make that up, then bottle in clear bottles[/quote:12uas6ho]With Corona the first (and only) taste is with the eyes. No Cooper's Cerveza I've ever seen has looked anything like Corona.