This beers brewery has moved more than my bowels. Their main stays have been Fat Tire and Vodoo Ranger. Newcastle was my only beer. Newcastle Brown Ale is a English Brown Ale style beer brewed by Heineken Nederland B.V. in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands. All American brewing companies are a joke. By the look of these comments, New Castle will be a thing of the past! Now Im bummed because its gone. I too gave you a year to improve it, but this is the last bottle for me. This is not Newcastle. Note to Lagunitas: Please, please, please go back to the old recipe. It is very similar to the manner that Aloha Beer has been marketed as a local Hawaiian beer although it is brewed and bottled on the mainland. Bottom line another customer lost. the new stuff is rat piss. Just sad they dont realize the problem. You will continue to lose us in BIG NUMBERS !! Please alter the name as you have completely altered and ruined my favorite brown ale! That hard to do for a true beer drinker. Newcastle Brown Ale is getting a facelift. Havent tried this yet, but I have yet to drink a Lagunitas brewed beer I didnt like. Yup. What else is out there yall like? I have all the same gripes as everyone and I spoke to them for 10 minutes and let them know. Just one day in the fridge and it peels right off the bottle. Another loyalist lost, good luck. If our Policy changes in the future, we will notify our customers and website users of any such changes by posting an updated policy on our website. & Chicago, IL. Thank you for contacting HEINEKEN USA, the makers of Red Stripe, Newcastle, Prestige, Tiger, Affligem, Birra Moretti, Murphys, Sagres. Pre-Owned. There are thousands of other beers if you want another flavor. This new recipe sucks! Excellent suggestion Jim!!! You just lost the business of a couple of lifelong fans! Worst beer I have had the displeasure of ever tasting in my life. Not anymore!!! I have not tasted a good one yet. Ive drunk the Tyne Brewery version back the 60, and that was the best. The Caledonian Brewery uses only traditional British brewing methods, including using only whole-flower hops and heating the original 1869 copper kettles with open flames. Heineken, you lost this baby boomer consumer. Bad move Newcastle, you will be extinct in 12 months! In 1984, the company opened the most recent bottling plant in Europe, a 3.5 million facility. Of cource sticking with something from over the pond, good ole Bass Ale. I like all beer styles. Michelob Amber Boch maybe??? We may never get the old NCB back, but we need better than the current crap! We may offer you the ability to connect with our websites or use our applications, services, and tools using a mobile device, either through a mobile application or via a mobile optimized website. Just sad really. Then boycott this so-called new version of a great all-time beer. Lagunitas and Heineken should not be allowed to profit from this. Tastes nothing like my once favorite beer and i couldnt be more disappointed. On April 25, 1927, Newcastle Brown Ale was advertised for sale for the first time in The Journal. It tastes plan, missing all the magic that was in the original recipe. In my opinion, a huge fail in market research. Bass Pale Ale. I want my Brown Ale back. It has been live for over 6 weeks and only 54 have signed. Ill be replacing it with Dos-X Amber, Dirty Bastard, Black & Tan, Red Jacket Ale, Loch Down and Yuengling Amber. We have noticed the shelves are full of the new Newcastle because nobody will buy this crap. This is garbage. Its a shame no one at Heineken understands that the original Newcastle is what will succeed. Go back to brewing piss water IPAs so overhopped to cover up shit brewing skill, and leave Newcastle to people who can actually brew a real ale that doesnt taste like every other American piss-beer. I hope they go out of business!!!!!!!!!! Trouble is some are regional brews. Trying a few we can report back. 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. There was nothing wrong with the taste before, I used to drink quite a bit of NEWCASTLE Im bummed doesnt go down as smooth anymore. The new bottles are not easily used by a bottle opener, the lip is too round. I just tried the new New Castle..well it was so bad I spit it out! I hope they both fail miserably at this. Bring back the original. Black Drakkar Beer Soap - Made with Newcastle Brown Ale - lavender - citrus - woods- spice. Who thought this was a good idea? Apparently, the American version has been taken over by Lagunitas brewery and completely changed the recipe. 5 L. From $23.49. Maybe I missed the once respone that liked this Fake NCBA. And so, no more. Oh where or where has my newkie brown gone! You have destroyed a perfect brew. my Yuengling and I are offended that is being compared/equalled to new-recipe Newcastle swill (fm chicago & california). Bought a six pack, not knowing of the recipe change. Mashing is typically carried out at 150-152 F (65.6-66.7 C). Im so hip and cool! He agrees that Shiner Bock is probably the closest. The company should terminate everyone connected to this fraud. Some of the best beers to ever come out of the UK (Theakstons is running a close second). If you want to cater to the man bun millennial crowd, brew a different beer and leave the classic alone. Bad Shepherd Hazelnut Brown Ale 355ml Can. What in the Hell happened to New Castle. Worryingly packaged in a clear glass bottle, the blue . Change it back! I do not like the new recipe and flavor. I exclaimed to my wife that it was either spoiled or somebody turned it into a a $u%#ing IPA. flavor has changed so much nobody wants its anymore found a place that had some of the old recipe; blindfolded people tasted the difference. Production was moved out of Tyneside to North Yorkshire in 2007 by current owner Heineken. For starters, its less sweet. Not that enjoyable to drink I guess Ill move on to something else. cost isnt the issue when it comes to certain flavors that we like. Five days later, Newcastle United were crowned league champions - their last league title to date. The new recipe sucks very badly. Make it 9 people so far. Very disappointed, Bring back what we all enjoyed over the many years of the one and only Newcastle! How was it? I shall never buy another unless I see a new marketing campaign indicating that they have gone back to the old recipe. My father-in-law (whom is no longer with us) was born and raised in the Newcastle area (Tyne & Wear). Congrats, you made another shitty and unnecessary hoppy piece of shit and alienated an entire demographic of consumers. New Newcastle sucks. Why would you fix what isn't broken? Now they say theyve modified it for the American market? So apparently they think Americans are either insensate creatures of habit or masochists. All they care about is profit. It was my favorite beer: we bought a 12 pack of the new stuff and we thought, What the hell? We noticed the packaging was different and thought maybe there was another product with the same name, but after being unable to find the original we loved, I googled to see what I could find out, especially when I noticed that it was now being brewed in Petaluma.and I found this thread with a host of disappointed fans of the real Newcastle. Lagunitas did add 8-10 more IBUs, but they blend in rather than stick out. Heineken ruins everything they touch. Where did you get it from? Just bought my usual three cases (3 bottles a day with a good maduro cigar) at Wine Plus, Laguna Hills, Southern California, my regular booze emporium for the last three years ($24.99 a case). To the contrary, Lagunitas Master Brewer Jeremy Marshal pointed out that the Chicago brewery uses a British-style house yeast. Invading pubs soon and Twitter feeds now! Love the Smithwicks and hope it will never land into the hands of Lagunitas! mtn MegaDork 2/7/20 1:31 p.m. Fire whoever thought of this and respect your clients. New Newcastle is horrible. We have to quit posting here and post complaints on the Lagunitas Website. Newcastle Ale 12oz 12pk Btl . I am no longer recommending Newcastle and am extremely disappointed. Great taste, very balanced with more malt than mellow hops, and 8%! Ill never buy it again! Are you kidding me? Let some get cold in the fridge This taste hoppier than I remember Wife said she got some almost smokiness out of it.. Not a fan. And Smithwicks? And charge the same price as if were an imported beer? And I will not drink this nor will I EVER buy a lugintas product for the rest of my life. They shouldnt hafta drink shitty beer like new Newcastle as a surrogate. It taste nothing like the original beer which is very disappointing to me. Its useful for cleaning my tools, killing snails, and in a pinch I can pour the beer in the toilet and use the bottle for a candle holder. Fake beer. Over 20 years I have been a Newcastle Brown Ale fan. So sad. Takes like shit he told me. Fraudulent comes to mind Lagunitas would have been better off developing their own English brown ale and selling that, rather than sully the name of what was once a cracking beer by peddling its corpse. Thanks a lot for nothing. The recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale is to change amid US fears it contains a potentially cancer-causing colouring. This sucks! Its well known for bitter beers. Quite messing with good recipes. I have drank and loved original new castle for decades and now the sell this junk under the same name and new horrible taste. This will be the demise of Newcastle in the USA. Why is a significant group of ale drinkers fond of Newcastle Brown? Unless of course I go to one of the great craft breweries we have in the Houston area. I like everyone else was Shell Shocked when tasting this disaster. Yep, if they have not seen their error by now, so be it. My favorite. In the Toon. 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. Check availability. They ruined it! This is horrible. This relaunch is to Newcastle what New Coke was to Coca Cola!! This will eventually fail, and the Newcastle name will be lost. Im truly stunned by this news. I wake up and its terrible!!! I dont know if I can find it easily but Ill buy it. Very disappointed. Thanks Michael and I am afraid you are 100% correct. I spent 30 years enjoying Newcastle at my favorite pizza joints and pubs, and at home on holidays and special events. they have been making this for 100 years. 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. Weak af. Everybody I ran into doing the same, swore NOT to buy the new nasty tasting Lagunitas-made Newcastle. Ive been drinking it for 25 years. The subtle sweetness was replaced with hipster IPA sucking-on-a-pinecone bitterness. P.S. Ill never buy a case again. There are other good brews out there. by some millennial trying to reinvent the wheel. They should at least have offered both recipes. If you think these guys are going to revert to the old recipe just because you and a few thousand others complained, youre just barking at the moon. So hard to find a good beer that you always want to drink. Thanks Tim. I cant believe the ONE beer I truly love has to get ruined by this bunch of corporate shit gibbons and hipster craft brew douches. Newcastle Brown Ale (4.7% ABV) is full-bodied and smooth, showing restrained caramel and notes of bananas and dried fruit. WE DONT WANT AN IPA. Americans would puke if they tasted the good stuff from way back Especially if served at room temperature like it used to be. BS. Writing from Newcastle UK here guys let me tell you forget Newcastle Brown Ale, its a goner and has been ever since they stopped brewing it here. Thinking that if we make contact with them and they see what has been done maybe they can formulate something more similar to NCB. You guys really messed this one up. Guess when I get up there Ill have to stock up to fill the spots formally filled with real New Castle Brown Ale. How is this done to a fantastic beer? 6 watching. Drank one and left the rest out on display at the dumpsters near my apartment. Boy did lagunitas screw this up. Thank you for ruining my favorite beer. I thought to myself how could a bottle change effect the taste? This stuff is nothing Like the original. Lagunitas has destroyed New Castle. Larry, when I commented directly to Lagunitas the response was a non apologetic dribble about how their master brewer wanted to reimagine the iconic Newcastleand tried to make it my problem for not embracing it. And I love Lagunitas IPA. Please continue to enjoy our brands responsibly. They did the same. Newcastle has been my favorite beer for years. Lagunitas are Retarded. Then I noticed it was the new packaging. Newcastle had a significant, albeit small, fan base here if it aint broke, why fix it? Its like wanting a steak, you ask for a steak, and they give you chicken. But then that persons other favorite would be Bud Light. Boycott new castle. Change it back. Dont change your fomula. Not even close to the crappy new recipe. No more Newcastle for me. Yuck! Its not even close. BIG CORP. this is not why we fell in love with this beer. Only 1 left. Has similar bottle name and label but is not Newcastle. It is possibleeven probablethat the purchase price for the Newcastle Brown Ale beer company only included the beer name, but not the recipe for NBA. They directed Lagunitas, an American brewery that is also owned by Heineken, to brew Newcastle Brown Ale in the states. Sad day indeed. Only way they saved it was to roll back and hopefully ncb will do the same. Please change the receipe back. My only complaint is that we cannot get the pint bottles here I remember drinking back in the UK. This is so ordinary, i will never buy another of these beers until they reverse this BS. I assume its to save cost. That ended today when i purchased a six pack in their new packaging. Ill never buy another bottle unless it goes back to the original brew. Kent Goldings hopsat :90 1 oz. 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