Mac's Gold all malt lager

[beattun]

anybody tried this beer from new zealand?

stumbled across it the other day in liquorland and gave it a try, absolutely beautiful, for those who havent tried it, it describes itself as malt / hops / citrus / caramel sort of thing, its 4% and very nice to drink.

was just wondering would i be able to brew something similar with a coopers mexican cerveza kit (have one here), and possibly adding caramel, malt, hops etc, i dont really know, im still an idiot at this brewing lark, but maybe someone here whos tried this beer has tried to duplicate it with success?

[kiwijimbob]

Hi

I'm pretty new at this brewing lark too but I do know that you can buy Macs homebrew kits from Lion Nathan (the owner of the brewery) in NZ. Not sure if it is available here in Aus but I have started to look around so will let you know if I find it.

OR maybe someone on here already knows if you can get it here?

James

[rwh]

I reckon it'd be pretty difficult to brew a lager like that using a basic homebrew setup. You really need some decent temperature control to get anywhere near the clean lager malt profile. If I was you I'd try out an amber ale, say the Muntons Royal Oak Amber Ale with a kilo of LDME.