Friday night beer. Newcastle Brown Ale.

in beer •  7 years ago 

When I first started going out drinking in the rock pubs and venues around Yorkshire Newcastle Brown was the main drink everyone had. Always drunk out of the bottle this really was the drink adopted by the rockers and if you wanted a bar snack to go with it then it was a packet of pork scratchings.

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A Brown ale is much darker and richer in taste than many of the other ales and is always best when drunk from the bottle, although some of the older generation who drank it preferred a half pint glass that they'd keep topping up.

When I moved up to Sunderland I discovered that cities best kept secret that was Vaux Brewery's Double Maxim which was a far better drink but is not as readily available as Newcastle Brown. (If you're in the UK I think Morrisons stock it.)

Today is the first time I've had a bottle of Brown in many years and I'd forgotten just how well it goes down, really I should have bought a couple or 3 bottles.

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I rarely drink booze of any kind - but intrigued by that packet of pork 'scratchings'. They're probably very similar to the 'pork rinds' we have here in Canada ... kind of dry, but wonderfully crisp and tasty?

Yes, pork rind, salted and cooked till it crunches. It really does go well with a brown ale much like some people put certain wines with foods.

I'd eat it, even if only with coffee, tea or water, lol.