Newcastle Brown recipe change

So is Ram Tam literally just Landlord with caramel colouring added, or do they change the recipe some too?

 

God I hate that article.

 

Never heard that either

 

Same here. It was one of my "gateway" beers to good beer back in college - along with stuff like Pete's Wicked, Saranac, and Magic Hat.

 

I hate the idiots who buy into all of it even more.

 

Never was a big fan of theirs

 

I know an old thread is being revived and you are obviously to cool for school but here is the thing. Newcastle holds a very special place in my heart because its the first beer that I enjoyed more than a dr. Pepper. In the years since I have become a connesuir of beer and I probably will never drink a Newcastle again. I however keep a hole in my heart for Newcastle and hope that others begin their journey with the same beer. I'm pretty sure that the first time you saw a parrot make a nest you ere enthralled by the happenings. Please have the same enhrallazation when it comes to the one, the only Newcastle

 

Despite the fact that by time I tried it was probably already watered down but Newcastle, Guinness and the likes (i.e. the general "must have Irish Pub staples") were also pretty much a gateway for me. Now I'd obviously pick a Fuller's over something like Newcastle but if you handed me a well poured pint of Guinness on draft I wouldn't say no to that.

Not every beer I drink has to be something obscure, aged in a barrel or made by a gypsy brewer.

 

I was only familiar with NBA from the famous recording of stage banter by the heavy metal band Venom in which the singer, himself from Newcastle, quaffed his "local" brew between songs and boasted "it knocks you on your fucking back".

Later, when I found out its far-from-daunting ABV, I figured the singer must have been relying on strength-in-numbers.

 

Puzzling to me why anyone would need to add any kind of coloring agent to a beer. Being a homebrewer, color isn't difficult to achieve. I will take this as further proof that macros are more of a chemical concoction that anything that is 100% "brewed". Given the economies of scale involved in macro production, this doesn't surprise me, and I don't think I would be off in the assumption that much the flavor is likely from flavoring agents as well. Would that surprise anyone?

Water, malt, yeast, hops, (caramel coloring, ___(add chemical name here)___. It just doesn't seem like brewing to me.

I understand that you can add other ingredients to the brewing process for clarity, increased floculation, water softness, PH, etc., but the addition of non-brewing related ingredients is off to me.

I always loved Newcastle until the last few years, when I had heard that they use coloring agents. I barely ever drink it now.

 

It's hard for me to imagine 20 imperial pints of even, say, Carling not putting one's lights out but good.

 

I was wondering if anyone else had made the mistake of buying Werewolf other than me!! I bought a six pack when it first came out because I was curious. I had to fight my way through that sixer and was actually relieved it was gone at the end. It was almost a drainpour. ALMOST.

 

Lol. Newcastle was definitely a gateway beer for me. And, at the time, I really enjoyed it. Now, it doesn't do much for me, not that I hate it. I was out at a bar a couple weeks ago and they were selling 5 dollar "mystery buckets" - 5 beers for 5 dollars, including things like Bass, Beck's Dark, Fat Tire, Newcastle - they were trying to get rid of some inventory before they got a new stock from a new distributor. The bartender let us choose instead of making it a true "mystery" and we chose a Newcastle among the (first) 5 beers. It was awful. Not because I think it's inherently awful, just because it was probably really old. Lol. But, hey, my group had 15 beers for 15 bucks that night and the Fat Tire was fairly fresh. At that price, you can afford to take a few sips and abandon it.

 

a) Don't put too much stock into my username (see the username thread) b) I'm glad you have such fondness for Newcastle as it brings you nostalgia, but it's still a shitty beer. c) Dr. Pepper > Newcastle

 

Well, I think we are an elite minority. That said, I've been prone to talking shit on this beer for over a decade now, long before I ever reached elite status.

I feel like people buy it because it has nice branding or some other reason unbeknownst to me.

 

I used to like Newcastle, before getting into "craft". Haven't had it in a while, not my thing anymore, but I COULD still drink it if at a chain restaurant and no better choices available.