Newcastle Brown Ale

[Accip74 7,112]

I do like a drop of Newky Brown.........I normally have a bottle with fish'n'chips on arrival back in England, although Old Speckled Hen is probably my favourite of the main stream ales.......:-)

 

Any of the Adnams stuff is nice & I love all the St Peters brews.........

 

Brewers Gold is a lovely light refreshing pint........especially from a favourite pub of mine in 'constable country'......:-)

 

Anyway......I'm off the beer at mo' :-(...........so that's enough of that kind of talk from me..........

Edited June 23, 2015 by Accip74

[trenchfoot 4,243]

a bottle of dog and a schooner. used to be dangerous stuff for young men. Spent a few nights in the cells 'cos of it as a youth

[J_Edwards 70]

I've done a fair bit of home brewing in my time, and I made a brown ale, and it was pretty similar. It's been made by the John Smith's brewery in Tadcaster for quite a few years now. It's quite popular in America, and has become a bit of a trendy drink, like real ales are now.

 

I've always been of the opinion that a "true" lager must be from a country east of Germany. The Czech Republic, Poland, the Baltic States, and even Russia. The ingredients they used made a naturally pale beer, and they used to stop brewing in the summer, because is could get quite hot and spoil the fermentation. In the the summer, they stored the barrels in cool caves and cellars, where the bottom-fermenting yeast fermented further, giving it the clean, crisp taste. Obviously, everything is mechanised now, but the principle is still the same. A lot of breweries jumped on the bandwagon years ago, when people around Europe started wanting pale, cold beers, so I like to stick to the originals. Pilsner Urquell is supposedly the first lager, but Staropramen is my favourite.

 

A lot of beers now are just pale, fizzy and served cold, to suit the demand for cold, refreshing beers. Most pub "lagers" are like that. I would never drink a pub lager, even though my dad always gets me a Foster's in the pub. I think it is the most vile beer in the world. I lived in Europe for a while, and the foreigners were obsessed with British "Ale". The beauty of ale is that can have a multitude of flavours, tastes and colours, whereas lager MUST be cold, clean and crisp.