Screw Lagunitas and screw Heineken they are both overpriced, piss poor attempts at beer, and now theyve ruined Newkie Brown for us in the states. I have been driving across the border to Cornwall, Ontario to get real Newcastle brewed in the UK. . please share. Way to turn an old favorite into generic crap. Incredibly bad idea. Why buy the name, just make your own shitty brown beer. He acknowledged the obvious that it was the best beer hed ever had that night because of its pairing with seafood, whereas normally he thought it was simply decent. Heineken ruins everything they touch. And what to my horrified taste buds appeared? When it comes to pale ale beers, many people think of Newcastle. Heineken moved production of Newcastle Brown Ale from the Netherlands to the US. Sucks big time!!! This new bitter Lagunitas shit is horrible and I will not be a Newcastle patron any longer! System Default. Chocolate and caramel notes are moderate, making this. She called me a while ago and said no more. I dont get it either and I certainly dont get the US as the only country getting this crap while the rest of the world gets the old recipe. Newcastle Brown Ale Bar Wetstop Runner 900mm x 240mm (pp) 19.99. Totally fooled me. If I wanted an American brown ale, I would buy one. I have changed to Modelo Negara or Michelob Amber Bock, or even Dos Equis Amber in a pinch. I used to be a huge fanbut will never buy it again as long as they use the latest recipe. Thinking that if we make contact with them and they see what has been done maybe they can formulate something more similar to NCB. Dont beg them to reinstate the original recipe. NEW CASTLE BROWN ALE. There are thousands of other beers if you want another flavor. I will try and explain a couple things before I tell you how much this new flavor sucks sweaty donkey nuts. The old recipe was sweet and refreshing. Takes like shit he told me. I went home and went online and found this site and my heart sank. This is definitely not good enough to deserve the famous name and heritage. just wish I had read this before buying 4 casestoo bitter and just is not my old New Castle AleIm gone! Totally idiotic to change the recipe. Gave it a try, hated it, they ruined one of the most unique wonderful beers in the world. This over powering Roast Flavor that lingers. The makers should be ashamed of themselves for serving this bland liquid as the Famous Newcastle Brown Ale. Newcastle was my favorite go to beer, but now Im looking for an alternative. My One and Only left me with None and Lonely! This was was just at Christmas and she had just set them out. NEWCASTLE WEBSITE. If you want to taste good British ales then come to see us youll love the beer scene here but stay clear of the factory shit the media moguls are trying to sell you. It is not only more bitter, it tastes pretty bad. Ill have to agree with everyone on this topic! It is now just another run of the mill nut brown. Laguntas and Heineken you should be ashamed of yourselves. Crisp chocolate malt 1 oz. Please revive the old recipe so I can enjoy beer again. My friends and I used to call it the creme soda of beers because of how tasty and drinkable it was. You killed my favorite beer Yes, need suggestions to try out Ive got 1 old New Castle left, I posted my own rage about the new recipe but in regards to your comment, all I can think to recommend you try is beer by Hacker Pschorr. Why mess up a great beer? To everyone as disappointed and offended do what I did. They should at least have offered both recipes. I am fulfilling my drop in the bucket, I stopped unpacking groceries to really try this and with every swig, Im like WTF? I had planned for it to be my go-to beer until my death. There are plenty of great ales on the store shelves which will see an increase in sales because we will Not be buying Newcastle again. Of course their sales numbers have dropped. Menu. Simply put: you guys f$&@ed up. If its not broke dont try to fix it! you have no right in changing this. Near perfection totally destroyed. Though not brown you might want to try AndyGator. That is down to 2 million cases. Basically when I go to the store to buy beer, its either Shiner Bock or New Castle Brown Ale. Exactly. Its super easy to make it and its easy to distill that up to 40% in a freezer. As soon as people figure our this new beer is terrible, sales will plummet. From first to wort trending in the wrong direction. Now I cant even finish one! This new beer tastes like crap. This new Newcastle is not the same, and Im disappointed. Why change perfection. GLTY, Been drinking Newky Brown since 1986will never buy again. Now I can no longer enjoy Newcastle. This stuff is absolute toilet water. It went down really well. I suggest you rename your beer Newcastle IPA. Now we get this trendy IPA wannabe??? To the people who did this if you have a favorite restaurant, I hope it goes out of business. I completely agree. Brew that swill under a different name and give us back our delicious beer. It was an antidote for what she called the dire rear. (My dad used to pour it down the sink.) NCBA, Rest In Peace ! Yep, Smithwicks is one I keep in frig, Yingling Black & Tan, Modela Negra have a reasonable taste also. Horrible. 6. The brand will continue to be marketed . So disappointed to have to say Im done with Newcastle Brown. or Best Offer +$22.45 shipping "Newcastle Brown Ale Clone" Northern English Brown beer recipe by jeffpn. Dammit! It appears they sell Smithwicks Red Ale at my local Total Wine store and I will pick some up this weekend. They should change the name because it in no way resembles the NEWCASTLE we all loved. Digorneo changed sauce recipe. This new beer should not be called Newcastle. The label should say New and not improved to be factual I assume that this swill will be pulled once sales decline, but you have lost the trust of fans of the original and best of luck on getting them back. Im going to Canada to get some to bring back. What a Distinctly American Dumbshit move. New Castle Brown Ale was world-famous beer and they new that the name alone meant future profits. Been a loyal Newcastle drinker since 1975 After my find is gone Panic? I will be looking for a new favorite. You wont another from me! Change it back! Just tried the new Newcastle I will never drink this s*** again. https://WWW.NEWCASTLEBROWN.COM Onto greener pastures, just dont know what it will be. Damon ) turned me onto , now its like all the other crap in a bottle in the states. December 19, 2015 Tom Draper. Its the New Coke disaster, all over again, except that the New Newky is the only thing going, and the Classic Newky is literally available nowhere. Wouldnt give to my worst enemy. Lets all do the same. I suspect that you may be correct about the Newscastle Ale recipe not being available to Lagunitas. Been drinking NBA for 10+years. You ruined it! Lets make it like other crap beers but still have that microbrewery feel to it. Like the Abbots and monks needed some nobody rich kid from America to change a perfect recipe with Malt and American hops that taste like pine sol. The new flavor literally took away everything that made the pre-Heineken Newky worthwhile. $4.00. I just got some and was pretty much duped by the label. Bad business decision because your core Newcastle lovers are what keeps your sales up. Its not good. I was served one the new ones yesterday in a restaurant and sent it back; googled it and found the bad news. The recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale is changing to keep customers in the US happy, after drinkers across the Atlantic worried it contained a carcinogenic food colouring. Sometimes I wished I lived in the UK. The package looked different, but I didnt think much of that. Newcastle needs to go back to the original recipe. How DARE you call this garbage Newcastle?!? While there, we cleared several pitchers of Newcastle Brown Ale. It was so fucking delicious. If you told me the original was toxic Id drink it over this SHIT. The current beer is not up to standard, and you have lost a customer for life. Unless they go back to the old recipe, Ive had my last Newcastle. The one and only was sweet and I lived off it. In short, it was a great beer for any occasion and Lagunitas ruined it by turning it into yet another crappy overly hopped quasi IPA. The taste of this new Newcastle is disgusting. Also Brown was never available on tap, only in pint (English pint ie 20oz) bottles. Bring back the original. greedy hipster pieces of shite!!!! No dah people. The New Castle is passable just do not expect Newcastle and it will be ok. RIP Newcastle! COME GET THIS SHIT OUT OF MY REFRIDGERATOR!!! The distinctive brown ale was first produced at the Tyne Brewery in Newcastle in 1927 Its Blue Star logo was put on the bottle a year later and appeared on the shirts of Newcastle United. Tue 13 Oct 2009 16.17 EDT. They did the same. Only beers I found that compares were Moose Drool from Montana and Alaskan Brown Ale, neither of which are available in my area. Great taste, very balanced with more malt than mellow hops, and 8%! That really satisfied me. Lagunitas are Retarded. Now it is fucked! You dirty Dutch fucks, all of you fuck each other for sucking. Brewed with Centennial and Chinook hops and available in the U.S., the Lagunitas-brewed Newcastle Brown Ale will hit shelves and delight lips in March 2019. The new recipe sucks very badly. Newcastle Brown Ale is a brand of beer produced by Heineken International. Well they managed to ruin my favorite beer, thanks for nothing! I thought I had got a bad batch, now I know that they ruined Newcastle. I have touted and recommended the Newcastle beer for 20+ years as the best pure brown ale with a smooth flavor that coats your taste buds with no crappy after taste that the other American beers have. Theyve lost another regular customer. Its iconic 550ml bottles, at 4.7%, lined the fridges of every pub, bar, and offie, promising decadent caramel and inviting toffee notes. Now you have lost your core customer base. Rubbish! A candy, banana fruitiness is also present. In 1984, the company opened the most recent bottling plant in Europe, a 3.5 million facility. Only 1 left. I would be ashamed of this product. Newcastle brown and Stella have been my go-to beersnoticed the new packaging, thought nothing of it but did notice the new taste. I used to drink Newcastle starting when the weather turned in autumn, straight through until it got warm in late spring. Now its Shiner all the way for this Texas native. Thank you for the recommendation. Ever since Newcastle production moved out of England, its gone downhill. I have been exclusively drinking New Castle for 20+ years and I will now have to change brands. WE DONT WANT AN IPA. Newcastle Brown Ale is smooth, crisp, and slightly roasty because it is brewed with a unique blend of pale and roasted malts and American hops. unless I can find the original somewhere. Having mistakenly believed this was a just redesigned packaging (it looks lame) I bought my usual box of 12 bottles. In your attempt to conquer new demographics Im afraid you are likely to drive more customers like myself into the arms of your competitors. Yield: 5 Gallons . They did respond politely but they are standing by their new product and proud of the fancy hops they use. Share your NEW finds and screw Heineken. Seriously, what beer have the Dutch ever brewed that was above piss from ass? From 1927 to 2005 it was brewed at The Tyne Brewery in Newcastle They are not going to suddenly go outside their established supply chain just to buy ingredients for a beer that they are probably prohibited by contract agreememt from producing. Thank you, Lagunitas, for ruining one of my favorite beers. For that reason alone I wont be buying it anymore. I cant return it so I think I will make a YouTube vid of my nasty beer getting shot up in the desert. Damnit!! One night at a Mississippi restaurant that had a grocery in the front, my dad and I chose a six pack Newcastle to accompany the fried seafood feast at my insistence. Right down the drain with this NBA imposter. In 1986, American craft beer pioneers, Pete Slosberg and Mark Bronder, released Pete's Wicked Alethe beer largely responsible for establishing the American brown ale as a commercial beer style and category for beer competitions. I didnt read them all but i did read enough to say I dont think theres one positive review here. Maybe the original brewers from the NBA company might begin marketing another beer with a different name using the original recipe (unless they are prohibited from doing that). British Brown Ales have been around since the beginning of brewing history. Hopefully, Chicago continues to experiment and brings out another version, cause this one fails, I guess its back to Bass Ale. What Lagunitas did to this beer is criminal! The beer Show More See All Sort by: Global Friends You Global Recent Activity Christoffer Nordqvist is drinking a Newcastle Brown Ale by John Smith's at Untappd at Home Can Earned the Brewery Pioneer (Level 48) badge! Way to butcher a classic, delicious beer. Ive drunk the Tyne Brewery version back the 60, and that was the best. Fans of Newcastle Brown Ale will notice a new flavor. NewNewcastle sucks. I tried the Guiness product already, but it was a bit heavy for my taste. Petition signed only 14 so far..get this link out! They were right along side the new stuff. Terrible. LaGunitas, seriously, put a gun in your Chicagoland mouth and pull the fucking trigger for shitting on the working mans beer. Dumped 11 and bought a 12 of modelo negra. why not make both? Please change it back. your a baby, a young brat that knows nothing. HORRIBLE TASTE. I thought I was done with my rant but Im going to keep going. The petition has had pathetic results. I had no idea! Cant believe they would do this Theyre losing a life-long customer in me. I am so bummed. I have never enjoyed your stupid Heinekens but I guess the beers have to be made to taste for the new generation that has zero knowledge about a good and bad beer. Not everything needs extra hops. Please bring back the original recipe and keep it in clear bottles. He did not want to deviate far from what has worked for Newcastle Brown Ale. I think it was 5% ABV They moved from their true Newcastle home to Yorkshire with a new recipe and different water at some point- It was barely recognisable after that. This was a terrible decision to change . GARBAGE beer. Really, everything since has been an inferior product to that. If you can find it, Shiner Bock is nice too, but we have a hard time finding it in California (its out of Texas). At first I was disappointed that Newcastle had changed their label from classy to garish. The term was first used by London brewers in the late 17th century to describe their products, such as mild ale, though the term has a rather different meaning today. First they messed with Smithwicks and now my all time favorite. As Rich mentioned above, it was just a flippant response about their great re-imaginations and they are sorry I dont care for it but they hope I come around to eventually love it. I hope that when new Newcastle fails , which it surly must, they bring back old Newcastle and accept the profits from us hard core fans! Fans of Newcastle Brown Ale will notice a new flavor. We live 30 miles from the Canadian border, in upstate NY. Shame on you!!!!! This new so-called beer SUCKS!! Ruined a great beer. I moved a bit and had not purchased Newcastle in a few years and grabbed some a few months back. Living in Hawaii means that not every beer type is available to us here, not to mention the cost. I have it on good authority (sworn by worker at S&N at Newcastle then Dunston) that the only thing that changed when it went to Tadcaster was the water. Period. This is worse than New Coke for those from the 80s. Because of the taste. Bring back the original!! I replied after the first comment to add my disgust with the decision to change an otherwise perfect beer. It just looks wrong in brown bottles. It wouldnt be a terrible beer if you told people what they were getting, then people that like this style would buy it. How do I get the Real New Castles??? Just adding my 2 cents with my negative comment. Now a word on the Lagunitas Brewery tour. I hope they go out of business!!!!!!!!!! They deserve a nice made in America class-action suit against them for this nonsense. I bought a six pack, opened a beer. mtn MegaDork 2/7/20 1:31 p.m. Just not the same. So, before I committed to a half barrel, I bought a six pack of this stuff. Could someone recommend another English Ale that I might buy instead? I fell in love with NBA about 30 years ago and am mortified at the new taste. I will partake no more, damn Ill miss it. BAD DECISION. I only drank new castle. Bate and switch ? Maybe the sales were down, but they definitely werent dead. Bought some today and thought it tasted odd. After drinking Newcastle Brown ale for 25 years I now refuse this modern muck This is not the beer I know as New Castle. Fuck you. WHY? The new packaging is lame, but whatever. Only way they saved it was to roll back and hopefully ncb will do the same. The old packaging made me think of English pubs, which fits that mood. Will never buy another bottle until the recipe is changed back. We are sorry to hear you didnt enjoy our relaunched Newcastle Brown Ale. All American brewing companies are a joke. https://www.change.org/p/heineken-usa-bring-classic-newcastle-brown-ale-back. But this is not what I wanted. I dont drink Newcaslte because of the fuckin name!!! I read through the comments and it appears there is no one who likes it. New recipe is awful, and now just tastes like Lagunitas. heineken you really turned brown gold into a huge smelly turd. I will have to find another brown ale that someone didnt feel the need to fix. Following the posting of such non-material changes, your continued use of any EPGs websites will constitute your acceptance of these changes and you will be bound by such changes. Total ass-hat move by these guys. the bottom line will be at the check out line, I know that I am very disappointed as to the flavor its like expecting prime rib and receiving a fish. It was like if Iced Tea was beer. Im sad to say now Im looking for a new beer to replace the old New Castle. Local, Free, & Flat Rate Shipping Available Most Ship Orders Within 24 hrs. Apparently, the American version has been taken over by Lagunitas brewery and completely changed the recipe. Its not fit for pigs. And Smithwicks? Complaining is fine, but someone needs to act. I live by chicago, not close, but close enough!!! Yep the Smithwicks is only 11.2 oz, stand it next to a 12 oz bottle and look at the neck, but get a 6 pack for $8.99 at local Publix so cheaper per oz. But this is neither a nice malty semi sweet low hop brown ale like we all came to know and love. Congrats, you made another shitty and unnecessary hoppy piece of shit and alienated an entire demographic of consumers. They have ruined perfection. Newcastle was my only beer. You guys messed up big time. They may have asked an additional price for the recipe that Lagunitas was not prepared (or able) to pay. BRING IT BACK!! In my opinion, the entire decision tree who decided to change the original to this new bitter undrinkable crap should be terminated or demoted to janitor. There are thousands of other beers if you want another flavor. I have been a Newcastle Brown drinker since the mid 80s. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. From 1927 to 2005 it was brewed at The Tyne Brewery in Newcastle Well now I have to find another beer. Fat Tire is a good beer but still not the same. You ruined my favorite beer. They took a great genuine drink and trashed it and pissed all over it! Sad really. I have been a fan until this. Bottles would have to do. We said, Lets keep the soul intact.. If you do not continue to use the EPG websites following a change to our Policy but take no other action with respect to your personal information, our use of that information will remain subject to our Policy as it was in effect prior to the change. Had you left the recipe intact and advertised the benefits of the brown bottle, you would have been a hero. Used to love Newcastle, the new brew is OKbut far from what was once one of my favorite beers. Why the traditional recipe couldnt make it across the pond is a mystery. I am really pissed that my favorite beer has been turned into something so horrendous that I poured the rest of a 12 pack down the drain. Deserve the famous name and give us back our delicious beer comes to pale Ale,! I will make a YouTube vid of my favorite beer, thanks for nothing before... 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