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McKewan's Lager Recipe search
Hello, All. I am just beginning to learn about home brewing and am interested for several reasons. The primary reason is an attempt to reproduce something similar to a lager that I thoroughly enjoyed years ago in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was called McKewan's Lager and was simply LOVELY!
I was able to find some McKewan's Export here in the U.S. and it is close but no banana. Does anyone have a recipe that is similar to that lovely nectar?
I am bout to brew my first batch using a kit that my daughter gave me for Christmas. Going forward, however, I would like to try it from scratch. Any suggestions?
Regards,
Workhannah
Suggestions, sure thousands of them.
For starters, pick up a good book. There are a bunch of good ones out there.
IMHO- One of the best start ups is Charlie Papazian's "The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing", in which he coins the term RDWHAHB, Relax, Don't Worry, Have A Homebrew.
Good reading, recipes from simple extract, through all grain with all the steps explained in detail, but with humor.
Play around with the online recipe generators, BeerTools, BeerSmith, etc. Just Google Beer Recipes.
Don't worry, you won't get obsessed or anything ------------------Right.
Welcome to the board. Ask any questions, lots of good folks here, and we all started knowing nothing.
+1 on reading The Joy of Homebrewing. That is one of the places I started as well. also check out
http://www.howtobrew.com Another good resource for basic stuff and also a good jumping off point if you decide to get into all grain brewing at some point.
http://beercalculus.hopville.com/ If you are going to make your own recipies (or try to clone one) this is also a great place to tinker with a recipe until you have something you like. Then you'll brew it up make some changes, brew again change a few things, and on and on untill you have something that is much better than the original. 
Happy brewing and glad to have you here
ID
I couldn't not respond to this one. I am a native Scot and McEwans (no K) was one of the lagers I grew up with as a teenager. It had all but died out by the time I left Scotland so i was interested in your note. Here's what I found out:
The original brand was discontinued in 2003 and the new lager is being produced not in Fountainbridge (the original McEwans brewery in Edinburgh), but at a number of breweries in England. Described as a "true session lager" by Scottish and Newcastle, the firm is positioning the drink as a "value for money" brand within its own range of beers and those of parent firm Heineken.
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I agree 100% with the article - McEwans was not the best of lagers (read cheap) and I'm surprised anyone would want to try and replicate it. I'm highly confident that what you brew would be better. My guess is that you were so enamored by our wonderful countryside that you believed what you were drinking was great - kind of like drinking Sol in Mexico!
But good luck, and if you get close to perfecting it I'll have a taste for old times sake!
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