Corona Clone

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

If you want to make a Corona clone you need to employ a Mexican to drink your product first.


Failing this, put it in clear bottles and expose them to blue light to get the right amount of skunkiness. Same effect.

 

[Danscraftbeer]

Yeah, putting down that brew and stumbled across it hahaha.

Show your recipe I'll show my, attempt at the style. Mine is pretty good actually but less a lolly beer like Carona.
I only slightly upped the hop flavor profile that is hop overdose for (Corona) but they use weird stuff like .
So called flavor stabalizer or some ****? Propylene Glycol. Intersting stuff I baught food grade IBC tanks that held this stuff. Tip that on your lawn its a far faster organic killer than Roundup weedkiller. Turn your lawn into dry yellow straw in 24-48 hours but don't listen to me. Billions of litres of Propylene Glycol is consumed as a food additive by the population.

 

[wereprawn]

Show your recipe I'll show my, attempt at the style. Mine is pretty good actually but less a lolly beer like Carona.
I only slightly upped the hop flavor profile that is hop overdose for (Corona) but they use weird stuff like .
So called flavor stabalizer or some ****? Propylene Glycol. Intersting stuff I baught food grade IBC tanks that held this stuff. Tip that on your lawn its a far faster organic killer than Roundup weedkiller. Turn your lawn into dry yellow straw in 24-48 hours but don't listen to me. Billions of litres of Propylene Glycol is consumed as a food additive by the population.

It's all about quantity. Citric acid and Calcium Sulfate will , for example, kill lawn and possibly yourself if used in concentrated form, but many brewers use these products and other potentially dangerous ones quite safely.

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

One of my professors was a specialist in herbicides. He noticed that a particular dog pissed on the lawn every day and the lawn promptly died, so he went to the extent of capturing the dog's urine and analysing it for potential herbicides. Turned out that the dog's urine was very concentrated and the mechanism was simply salt burn.

BTW the stabilised hop extract has nothing to do with proplyene glycol, see below, and AFAIK Corona doesn't use a stabilised extract anyway. The lack of stabilised extract explains the lightstruck character it always seems to have.

The stabiliser I think you meant is propylene glycol alginate, used as a foam stabiliser in beer, not propylene glycol.

Glycol is simply and old term for a diol, eg propylene glycol is a propan- (3 carbon) chain with two hydroxyls. The alginate is an ester of this and alginic acid (derived from seaweed). They are no more related than strawberry flavour (ethyl methylphenylglycidate) and ethanol.

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

As a side note: glycols can be toxic but this is usually because of the oxidation products formed from them in the body.

Ethylene glycol (ethandiol) oxidises to glycolic acid (hydroxyethanoic acid) and thence to oxalic acid (ethandioc acid) which is toxic.

Propylene glycol (propan 1,2 diol) oxidises to lactic acid (2 hydroxy propanoic acid) and thence to pyruvic acid (2 keto propanoic acid). Neither of these is toxic (in fact pyruvate is an important metabolic intermediary).

 

[Danscraftbeer]

I'm just thinking the Clone (not). Home brew. Versus . Commercial.
I dont think I'm familiar with light struck flavor. The closest I have experienced to skunk flavor (I have never smelt a skunk before so dont really know I'll imagine feral cat/fox/rat/Possum piss vermin etc) nor do I know light struck beer flavor other than stale. I know that flavor it is a common flavor in all commercial beers its called aging. Its not a bad thing.

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

Each to his own, I poured several beers down the sink today because they were stale. I hate stale beer.

We've been riding hills in the Yarra Valley this weekend, stopped at Dan's in Ringwood on the way back to check their stocks of the excellent 2012 rieslings they recently put on cellar release. Bought a few beers while I was there: big mistake. Apart from the Chimay blanc (which was acceptable but not great) they were all so stale as to be undrinkable.

Teaches me for buying beer at Dan's, their stock rotation is hopeless.

As to skunky / lightstruck flavour, put a clean beer with a decent level of bitterness in a clear glass container and expose it to sunlight for a few hours. Chill it and try to drink it. If you can you are a braver man than I.

 

[koshari]

Nah want a corona clone, quite enjoy one, question because you want it quite thin should I just use dextrose instead of a brew enhancer?

i think so, its no coincidence that megaswill from tropical countries has a lot of dex given they dont produce a lot of barley., that and its a hell of a lot cheaper,

 

[Danscraftbeer]

Nah want a corona clone, quite enjoy one, question because you want it quite thin should I just use dextrose instead of a brew enhancer?

Bare in mind though measure some Corona in a hydrometer it reads ~ 1.014. That's rather high final gravity IMO. Sweet finish.

 

[Ben Hardman]

Show your recipe I'll show my, attempt at the style. Mine is pretty good actually but less a lolly beer like Carona.
I only slightly upped the hop flavor profile that is hop overdose for (Corona) but they use weird stuff like .
So called flavor stabalizer or some ****? Propylene Glycol. Intersting stuff I baught food grade IBC tanks that held this stuff. Tip that on your lawn its a far faster organic killer than Roundup weedkiller. Turn your lawn into dry yellow straw in 24-48 hours but don't listen to me. Billions of litres of Propylene Glycol is consumed as a food additive by the population.

I don't expect anything fancy as much to mosts horror here will throw a wedge of lime in the glass. Was thinking either some BE2 or even a kilo of dextrose, no added hops and the coopers cervaza kit.

Mainly want a quaffer on a hot day, got some amber ales and such planned for the fancier stuff.