End of days
it's all over for the mighty Newcastle Brown Ale...

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8304274.stm

Now to be brewed in Yorkshire. Is nothing sacred?

In other news, it was confirmed today after an extremely thorough eye exam that I don't actually need glasses, despite what the optician I saw last week said. The fucking charlatan.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:44, 12 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hooray!
They can be very stylish but are just another bloody expense.
( girlinthehole, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:46, Reply)

rest assured though
it's still going to be made by incomprehensible northerners with questionable hygiene standards. You won't be able to tell the difference :P
( djtrialprice, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:46, Reply)

Like whisky, you mean?
:p
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:48, Reply)

whisky
is foul stuff that is drunk by simpleton Highland & Islanders (the kind of people who make The Wicker Man look like a documentary). Irn-Bru is the proper national drink.
( djtrialprice, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:53, Reply)

the wicker man isn't a documentary?
also, my mate barry is scottish, and he doesn't like pork scratchings. is this a scottish thing, or just him?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:55, Reply)

*pppft*
EDIT: Not overly keen on them but nothing against them per se. But then I am a half-breed.
( djtrialprice, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:57, Reply)

Makes no difference where it's made
It looks and tastes like arse gravy.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:53, Reply)

I was at a wedding in Canada this summer
I taught the barmaid to serve me "a bottle of dog". She couldn't handle my accent though. I had to keep pointing and shouting DOG!
( djtrialprice, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 15:55, Reply)

It wouldn't be the first time;
Boddington supposedly hasn't tasted the same since it was moved out of Manchester
Old Speckled Hen, Riddley's Old Bob, Ruddles' Best and countless others haven't tasted the same since Gr**ne K*ng bought them out.

And, whilst they've done a good job with the takeover overall, I do maintain that Gales' HSB isn't quite as good as it used to be since Fuller's bought them.

Interesting question, though - does Toon have any other breweries? I can think of loads in Yorkshire, Manchester, Liverpool, and at least one in Durham, but don't think I know anything from Newcastle besides the Dog.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 16:05, Reply)

There are a few micro breweries dotted around the county
But not much else. High House Farm Brewery does some good ales, as do Mordue, Big Lamp, Northumberland and a few others. Bigger breweries like The Federation got taken over by S&N a while back. Vaux went tits up ages ago.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 13 Oct 2009, 16:14, Reply)

Oh, I didn't realise Mordue were from up that way
I quite like some of their stuff. At least, the rare times I see it down South. Unfortunately it most often crops up in Wetherspoons pubs where they don't know how to cellar it properly and so it tastes of egg.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 13 Oct 2009, 16:16, Reply)

To be fair
it's been brewed in Gateshead (not quite newcastle) for a few years now.
( thyrf as in turf, but not, Tue 3 Nov 2009, 0:21, Reply)