McEwans Scotch or a 60/

[birkettm]

Hello!

I am very new to brewing and have so far done two kits (Youngs Brew Buddy Bitter with granulated sugar - questionable at best! and Tom Caxtons Real Ale with Demererra). I currently have a Geordie Scottish Export in the FV so Ive started thinking about the next one while i'm waiting for it. I had planned to do something like a McEwans Scotch - which I thought would be as easy as doing a Geordie Mild Kit, but after reading around the forum it seems it may not be what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any advice on trying to do a scotch-a-like (or 60 bob-a-like) from a kit? I started making a list of things I could do with the kit, but I think its starting to sound more like a porter.

Also I'm taking the advice about not using granulated sugar and used 1kg BKE and 500g sugar in the export - the thinking was BKE for body and head retention and sugar just to increase the ABV. Any advice on what to put in the mild kit? Dark DME?

Found some good recipes on here but I suspect they are beyond me at the moment.


Thanks

Marc

[BazC]

Brupaks do a Scottish 80/- in their BOTW series of kits.

[truemay]

Just done a muntons Scottish style heavy, should be made to 30 pints, I chucked in 500 gms dark spray malt and 750 gms dk brown sugar and made it up to 36 tastes excellent and came out at 5.2 abv

[birkettm]

Will look at both suggestions - I'm expecting the Geordie Scottish export i have in at the moment to come out like at 80/
An 80/ kit with dark spray malt and dark sugar to be a 60/ may be an experiment worth doing.