Newcastle Brown Ale 2

Ok, I am only posting this due to the fact that I enjoyed this particular bottle in the Gateshead Hilton Hotel, in Newcastle itself. I whisked my wife away for the weekend as it was our first wedding anniversary. Why Newcastle? Well we got married in Sydney, in a small church which overlooks Sydney Harbour Bridge. As we could not go back to Sydney, I decided to do the next best thing and visit the Sydney Harbour Bridge's smaller cousin in Newcastle.

We also went to posh noshery 'The Fisherman's lodge' for a nice meal. It was good weekend, before I had to return to Wuppertal on Monday.

I originally blogged about Newkie Brown back in February. You can read about it here.

BTW - we had our office Christmas party last night. It was a good night, but the beer was crap - Stella or Becks. I had a chronic headache this morning because of this. I did manage to get a couple of pints of Fuller's London porter in at The Counting House before hand though. Good times!

Newcastle Brown Ale

Newcastle Brown Ale (4.7% abv), commonly known as 'Newkie Brown' is well a brown ale! This one again is a Tesco pick up! Which is the story of my life these days with my hectic schedule keeping me away from the pub, well many pubs! A quick glance around the web reveals yet another outstanding website: http://www.newcastlebrown.com/ with enough content to satisfy even the most tech-savy beer geek. A brief commercial description of the beer;

Available filtered and pasteurised in keg and bottle. Newcastle Brown Ale was first brewed in 1927 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, by JimPorter after three years of development. Production moved from Newcastle to Gateshead at the end of 2004.

My example was the bottled variety. The beer itself is rich and malty with little hope character and a subtle roast aftertaste. Over all a very satisfying beer!
Historically the beer has been brewed in batches and a fresh portion of the beer is mixed with an aged portion of the beer at bottling to give its unique flavour. This practice ended however, as production has moved with the times to provide a cost effective production. The beer may be a shadow of its former self, but there are no complaints from me.