Yes, it is going to be yet another beer brewing day for me tomorrow. My beer brewing ingredients have arrived! I believe that tomorrow I will be doing the Mexican Cerveza.  Now I have never tried making this style of beer before but apparently there isn’t much to it. Just the same as the Australian Pale Ale I have done before. Basically you get the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza ingredient kit and then add the Beer Enhancer 2 (which consists of dextrose, malt and malto-dextrin) to it. And you will get the refreshing beer which all Mexicans love. From the movies, I had thought that Mexians are always drinking Tequilla or something, guess I was wrong. I think I will be adding a little Cascade hops to the brew while I am at it. My friends don’t like a beer which is too bitter so I will need to ensure that the brew will not turn out to be like too hoppy and bitter and the information from Cooper’s website is that this is one of the less bitter brews out there. So with just a little more hops, hopefully this will turn out to be a crowd pleaser as well.

Anyhow, I have taken some pictures of the stuff that came in today. The iBrew guy came and delivered the stuff in the morning. I was jumping about like a little bunny when it came. Na, I am not that excitable but I am glad that it arrived on time. If not, I will be unable to brew till 2 weeks later. Next weekend, I will be too busy to do any sort of brewing as my nephew would have to come first.

That’s the Cooper’s Mexican Cerveza Beer Ingredient Kit. Looks very good in golden yellow. Makes me feel happy inside. Don’t you feel happy inside when you see golden yellow stuff?

1.7Kg of Beer goo, ready to be made into 23 litres of fine delicious beer for the whole family. Well, not exactly for the whole family but perhaps for just the adults.  By the way, this is the International Series from Cooper’s. They have Australian Pale Ale, European Lager and Candian Blonde in this series. I am planning to try them all.

They are telling you that the beer is light in style, comes with a fresh clean taste and ideally served ice cold with a wedge of lime or lemon. Whatever. Just drink it when it is done. All beers should be drank ice cold anyway. And in Singapore (or Mexico), drinking beer ice cold is the only way to go about it.

It comes with some crappy yeast which I am not going to use. I am using my trusted Nottingham yeast to emulate that clean neutral taste which this Cerveza is supposed to be all about. This yeast pack is going to be stored in my fridge as spare yeast.

Bought another kit - it is the Cooper’s Wheat Beer. No, I am not going to make yet another Hoegaarden clone. But it will be a simple recipe Wheat Beer. Just the kit and yet another Beer Enhancer 2 and we will then see what’s the result. I forgot to purchase a Wheat beer yeast so that could be a problem. A wheat beer yeast should bring out the flavour of a real wheat beer more than an ale or a lager yeast would. Well, we will see what to do when the time comes for me to brew.

Champagne of the beer world? Really? That would be great. And they claim that Wheat beers are a great summer refresher and low in bitterness! Those are exactly what I need. Singapore is warm and Singaporeans can’t take stuff which are bitter so I am very certain Wheat beers is the thing they need.

Ya ya ya ya. Anyway, looking at the information on the beer can, this Wheat beer is part of the Cooper’s Brewmaster Selection and is part of the range of Indian Pale Ale, Irish Stout and Pilsener(which I had done once).  This series, the Indian Pale Ale and the Irish Stout is a big no no for me. My friends won’t like hoppy beers and the Irish Stout will cause them to faint on sight.

That’s the yeast provided by the kit. If I am not wrong, this is supposed to be the Cooper’s premium yeast (check out the difference between the packages of this yeast and the previous yeast. The one with the bearded old guy is the yeast which is supposed to be premium).  I am again at odds whether to use this yeast. First of all, I don’t trust the yeast provided in the cans. And secondly, I have no idea what exactly is the strain of yeast in this pack. Is this really for Wheat beer? Or is it just ale yeast. If it is so, then I would rather use my favourite Nottingham yeast. Ahhh….decisions decisions.

That’s the new iBrew Enhancer 2 which is a mix of 30% light malt extract and 70% dextrose. Hmmm….seems that there is no longer any Cooper’s Brew Enhancer 2 anymore. And no more Malto-Dextrin? Boohooo, I want a strong head in my beer!

Yeast nutrients for the yeast. Just like vitamins we take every morning, a little yeast nutrients is great for the little yeasties which help produce the alcohol we all crave. My previous batch is about to finish so I need to replenish my supply of Yeast nutrients.

Straight ‘A’ Cleanser. Not really a sanitzer but more like a cleanser. The main purpose of this for me is to clean the bottles of gunk and stuff which nobody would like to have in their beer bottles. Or perhaps I should just get a bottle brush instead. But my lazy half tells me that just adding some Straight ‘A’ and water works well too. Well waste energy when you can spend that energy opened up bottles and drinking more beer or wine?

Well, this is the end of the photos I have. Tomorrow, I will be taking photos of the Mexican Cerveza brew day. Let’s hope that tomorrow will be a fine day for brewing beer.