Mexican Cerveza – Light, Clean & Refreshingly Crisp
This Mexican Cerveza is a very light, clean, and fresh lager-style beer—an ideal thirst-quencher on hot days, and often enjoyed with a slice of lime.
Brew it as a Low or Mid-strength beer, anywhere from 2.6% to 4.8% ABV.
Recipe options: Check the can for variations.
Approximate Specifications (23L batch using 1kg dextrose or brewing sugar)
Colour: Pale Straw (5 EBC)
Bitterness: Low–Medium (17 IBU)
Grist: Lager Malt
Wort OG: 1.038
FG: ~1.008
Yeast: New World Lager Yeast (hybrid; ferments up to 22 °C)
Dry Hopping (Optional)
For extra flavour, dry hop with 10–30g (or more) of noble hops such as Tettnanger, Hallertau, Saaz, or local varieties like Motueka or Wakatu.
The Brick Road Difference
Follow Brick Road and you’ll soon be brewing fresh beer that tastes better than commercial beer. This can provides the foundation for great homebrew—simple, flexible, and perfect for crafting your own recipes brick by brick.
Brick Road partners with one of the world’s finest maltsters to produce this exceptional hopped wort. Only the highest-quality grains are selected, malted, blended to suit the beer style, and mashed with hop extracts. The fresh wort is gently concentrated to 80 Brix and canned on-site to capture its delicious, original malt flavour.
