Talk:Newcastle Brown Ale

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Dog, because it bites ya legs? What idiot wrote this?
It's not called 'dog' because 'it bites your legs.' It's called 'Dog' because men would say they were going out to 'walk the dog', but instead head to to pub. Want proof? This used to be written on the bottles. Just goes to show you can write anything on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.176.2.56 (talk) 14:14, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

I wrote it.....grew up in the north east, born in 1957, drank my first bottle at age 13. I and my parents and my grandparents, my friends and family have always called it 'dog' - long before the internet, or wikipedia or the brewery printed that rubbish on the labels. And we call it dog because it bites your legs. Ask any Geordie of my age and you'll get the same answer. but now the 'walk the dog' rubbish is all over the internet and young kids in the marketing dept are too lazy to do anything other than quote wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.67.24.103 (talk) 13:11, 29 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid we can't just take your word for that. The story about it coming from "seeing a man about a dog" has been around for a very long time also, and can't be merely attributed to alleged misinformation promulgating on the Internet. I've now restored that version, with citation. No matter how sure you are that it is mistaken, Wikipedia's policy of verifiability, not truth requires that you provide a reliable source to support a counter-claim.  AJ Cham  19:27, 9 April 2013 (UTC)


 * "I was born in 1957..." Bollocks! My old man was born in 1934 - also a Geordie - if you want to play that game. There's always a dickhead who thinks his microcosm of time and the North East gives him a special advantage; It really just makes him special. Saying 'see a man about a dog' goes against the company itself. Why would you quote something that is contrary to company's own history?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.228.216.164 (talk) 03:40, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

wind up
there is a classic wind up only assosiated with newkie brown.

you tell the victim that the brewers are running a competition that can be won by anyone who finds the tiny hitchhiker on the bridge on the label ..... after looking for a while the perpetrator then asks if the victim has found it yet, after they say no the perp says "oh ....he must have got a lift" ...... its shit but is only done with newkie brown.

Double Maxim
The entry is wrong. Vaux was already brewing Maxim Ale starting in 1901. Double Maxim came about in 1938 when they increased the strength of Maxim ale and renamed it "Double Maxim".

NCBA Bottles
Can an expert Geordie pisspot give some history of how NCBA was bottled and/or kegged? An episode of Gently shows Lee Ingelby drinking NCBA from a clear glass pint bottle, supposedly in 1965. I suspect that in 1965 NCBA would have been in brown glass bottles. Flint (clear) glass requires the beer in it to have all riboflavin removed, or the bottle must be coated with a strong plastic UV filter. Any beer made from leaf hop, or CO2 resin extract, must be protected from UV light. Brown glass or stoneware does this naturally.220.240.248.254 (talk) 03:32, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Clear bottles back in the 1960s; I started drinking in the early 1960s. Dad was a home brewer and had a massive collection acquired over years. Amber ale also came in identical pint bottles. However the half pint bottles were brown as they were the ones that, in those days, were more widely distributed to areas outside the North East. A photo in the Evening Chronicle archives does however show brown pint bottles in a photo from World War 2. Having grown up on Tyneside I can assure you that exposure to sunlight is not a huge problem there, particularly back then with the smog and air pollution.

The beer was always distributed in heavy wooden crates straight into cellars or store rooms and would have had insignificant exposure to UV. --MichaelGG (talk) 04:57, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

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Ref 6 looks like a load of bollocks to me. Any such ref should be from the time when the beer was invented. Some 2010 story by a journalist is not acceptable. The story goes that Porter attempted to clone Bass Pale. If the original beer had an OG or FG of 60ppt, it would look and taste nothing like Bass Pale. Darker beers are/were more popular in the north. NCB was an attempt to make a very mild but still dark brew. Heavily roasted grain will always have a bitter earthy flavor. NCB is a light ale with caramel added. It says that on the fine print of the bottle label. The trick is to stop the yeast from depleting the caramel.14.202.184.64 (talk) 06:02, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

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Article badly in need of expert editing
...at least because the content of sections has evolved to include significant added material that is not consistent with the section and subsection headings as they appear. Note for instance, the one line in the article that discussed the ale's hopping, and where this appears vis-a-vis the article's structure/organisation. 2601:246:CA80:999B:E919:E89E:B1F2:8E1D (talk) 02:30, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

The change in taste
When I started drinking around 1977, Newcastle Brown Ale had a very powerful and distinctive taste. Now, it barely has any taste at all. Heineken understandably want to continue to grow their fashionable and young market in the USA. I'm a little nostalgic for the Brown Ale of my youth but I see that a lighter taste makes sense for this push. I would like some comment on the change of taste in the article. I believe this happened before the "official" recipe change to suit the USA safety regulations. Perhaps just the water is different? Or something in the Netherlands brewing process differs from that huge open frothy tank I saw during a school trip to the Newcastle Brewery? Can this taste change comment be added somewhere? It is a widely commented on fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:4C2B:D200:B8DA:79B0:8FB9:EF20 (talk) 20:27, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Bad Link to Newcastle's Web Site
That domain name was stolen by a spammer. We should give traffic to spammers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.43.77 (talk) 19:49, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Brewing of the beer by Lagunitas
In March 2019 there was a relaunch, where Lagunitas brewmaster Jeremy Marshall "reimagined" Newcastle Brown Ale with Chinook and Centennial hops and Lagunitas' English house ale yeast. It's now brewed in Petaluma and Chicago.

https://www.brewbound.com/news/lagunitas-begins-brewing-newcastle-brown-ale Noellegi (talk) 17:30, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

No description of flavour
There's no description of the style, attributes or flavour of this beer, just colour & ABV. I'll be grateful if someone can fix that! Prime Lemur (talk) 00:30, 26 April 2022 (UTC)