Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale
Newcastle Brown ale is very important to everyone who considers themselves a geordie. I always remind people that it's "newcastle" brown, not "newky" brown. Newcastle is a major industrial city in the north east, famous for footballers, brown ale and the Animals, to neam but a few. Newky (sic) is a place in cornwall where posh people go surfing.
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale posted 2006-05-03 by Adrian Wright from Manchester
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale
Broon Ale, "knaa'n aal ower thar world" (known all over the world). An icon of the north east and (cheers to "Auf Weidersehn, Pet", an icon of England.
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale posted 2006-04-28 by Anthony Gaskell from Co. Durham, England
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale
I have just returned from holiday in New York and in a great little bar on 36th street and 5th called The Ginger Man there are over eighty types of beer on offer. The only beer from England was Newcastle Brown ale and as soon as I saw it on the list, it instantly made me smile. As Guinness is to Ireland - Newcastle Brown Ale is a true English Icon.
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale posted 2006-04-28 by Katrina Doran from Belfast
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale
Newcastle Brown is hardly an icon. It has not been around for that long (50's I think). It is no longer made in Newcastle (brewery shut) which makes it a bit of a misnomer. It was never any good and (from a recent tasting) it is now awful. It was just a gimick with its (now much copied) clear glass bottle.
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale posted 2006-02-06 by Peter Fleming from Bedfordshire
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale
Only ignorant southern students refer to the ale as newky as they drink it from the bottle rather than the traditional schooner.
Comment on Newcastle Brown Ale posted 2008-02-04 by Monty Magpie from Newcastle