Newcastle Brown Ale

Newcastle Brown Ale is a famous brand of dark brown beer. It has been brewed in Newcastle upon Tyne (where it is known as 'Dog') since 1927 by Newcastle Breweries (now a part of Scottish and Newcastle), and has been granted Protected Geographical Indication status by the EU. However, in April 2004, Scottish and Newcastle announced that they would be closing the Tyne Brewery in 2005 and moving production across the river to Dunston Federation Brewery in Gateshead. As such they will apply to the EU to have the PGI status revoked.

Unlike many British beers Newcastle Brown Ale is always served cold, ideally from a bottle, and drunk from a half-pint or Wellington glass so as to minimise warming, with a pronounced frothy head (never flat).

The beer was widely unavailable in southern and midland England until a successful promotional campaign in the late 1980s, but is now one of the country's leading bottled ales.

Like the better-known Guinness brands, Newcastle has been promoted with some success in the United States and is fairly well available in bottles and on draught.