Newcastle Brown Ale from the UK in the US - a Christmas miracle?

Where in N.C. did you find this? I would love to get my hands on the original version of Newcastle.

 

Does the pack and/or bottles have US markings/warnings/etc. ? If it doesn't, that would be a dead giveaway that it was intended for a market outside the US.

 

New Castle Brown, can sure smack you down.

 

Gimme some of that brown so I can lay these ugly women down

 

They need to bring the Real Deal Newcastle Brown Ale back to the US. It's been gone far too long and nothing else on the market these days scratches that itch.

 

True story: I always thought this stuff was in a brown bottle until after I bought one, took it home, opened it, and poured it into a glass. If I'd left it in the brown paper bag, I probably still wouldn't know any different.

 

Hmm...I'm going to have to check the local stores. I miss the Brown.

 

Heineken USA got a new TTB label approval for Newcastle Brown Ale last June (seems like the topic has come up before but a quick search turn up nothing).

Well, both brands were owned by Heineken, so no license was necessary. And likely Heineken knew and approved of the Lagunitas recipe.

Yeah, Heineken has done that with a number of brands they own for the US market, including some Murphy's, Tecate and Dos Equis brands.

I'd think that true Newcastle devotees would consider the O.G. Newcastle Brown Ale the stuff from, you know, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (above right) rather than the NBA brewed at the Heineken-owned John Smith Brewery in Tadcaster.

And the recipe was changed by Heineken even before the Lagunitas version.
FEB 2015 - Newcastle Brown Ale: Recipe change amid US colouring concerns

 

Newcastle was one of my earlier gateways beers to craft. My dad drank them all the time and I developed a palette for them. My personal preference was that Newcastle tasted best direct out of the 22oz bottle for whatever reason, although I think it had to do with the thicker glass. In my broke college days I could get a pint of wonton soup and a 22oz Newcastle for about $4. Good ol' nostalgia

 

I only recall a Newcastle Nut Brown Ale?

 

A local store here in Lexington has it, at least their website says they do...Haven't had it before, might pick me up some if they truly have it when I go by there this weekend.

 

Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale, perhaps?

 

A bar I used to go to back in the day had an old poster on the wall advertising Newcastle with the tag line "With women as tough as Maggie Thatcher, what do the men drink?" Blatantly sexist but, I guess, one might call it historically interesting.

FWIW in those days Newcastle was one of my go-tos, along with Bass Ale. And yes, definitely a "gateway to craft" for me and others

 

You sir are probably correct. I am old and feeble minded.

 

Thank you for the heads up OP. I spied this in the wild last week and I didn’t pay attention - now I need to go hunting.