* Newcastle Brown Ale ( United Kingdom )

Newcastle Brown Ale ( colloquially " Newkie Brown " ( UK ), " Newcastle " ( US ) or " Dog " ( North East )) is an English beer owned by Heineken and produced at their John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire.

Newcastle Brown Ale was originally created by Lt.

Porter had refined the recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale alongside chemist Archie Jones over a period of three years.

When first exhibited, Newcastle Brown Ale swept the board at the prestigious 1928 International Brewery Awards.

Newcastle Brown Ale went into production at Tyne Brewery in 1927, with Newcastle Breweries having occupied the site since 1890, with brewing on the site dating back to 1868.

The blue star logo was introduced to the Newcastle Brown Ale bottle in 1928, the year after the beer was launched.

Newcastle Brown Ale became a brand of Scottish & Newcastle after the merger of Scottish Brewers with Newcastle Breweries in 1960 where it became a flagship brand alongside McEwan's Export and Younger's Tartan Special.

Bottling of Newcastle Brown Ale moved to the John Smith's Brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, in 2007.

On 13 October 2009 it was announced by Scottish & Newcastle that it planned to close the Dunston brewery in 2010, moving production of Brown Ale to the John Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster also.

The company cited the general fall in the market for beer, over-capacity in its plants in general, and the fact that the Dunston site was currently operating at just 60 % capacity, despite the fact that sales of Newcastle Brown Ale had never been higher.

At the time of brewing moving to Dunston in 2005, Newcastle Brown was being exported to 41 countries.

Newcastle Brown is also distributed in cans in the U. S., but is very rare.

In 2000, the beer was renamed " Newcastle Brown " with the " Ale " being removed from the front label.

Geordies know Newcastle Brown Ale as " Dog " ( alluding to the British euphemism of seeing a man about a dog ) or Broon ( Geordie accent for ' Brown ').

Newcastle Brown Ale is traditionally sold in Britain by the pint ( 20 fl oz, 568 ml ) and more recently in 550 ml ( 19. 4 fl oz, 0. 97 pint ) bottles.

In April 2010, Heineken USA introduced the Wellington glass, branded as the " Geordie Schooner ," for Newcastle Brown Ale consumers in America.

Like many British breweries, Newcastle Brown is strongly associated with its local area, in this case being the North East.

In April 2006, Scottish & Newcastle plc announced that it had agreed to acquire the Foster ’ s brand in Europe ( including Turkey ), the Russian Federation and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States from Foster ’ s Group Limited for approximately £ 309 million.

In 1876, because the 18th century bridge at Newcastle restricted access by ships to the Elswick works, Armstrong ’ s company paid for a new Swing Bridge to be built, so that warships could have their guns fitted at Elswick.

In 1976 Simon joined Newcastle ’ s People ’ s Theatre, training in theatre skills.

Initially working the circuit on Tyneside and Wearside where he compered both The Horse ’ s Mouth in Newcastle and Mack ’ em Laugh in Sunderland.

Ann Gillies, the mother of Butch Cassidy was born and lived on Tyneside, Newcastle, North East England, before moving to America with her parents in the 1850s, where she married Butch ’ s father, Maximilian Parker, in Utah.

The " Lyme " section could refer to the Lyme Brook or the extensive Forest of Lyme that covered the area with lime trees in the mediæval periodThis is Newcastle-Under-Lyme Newcastle is named after a ‘ new castle ’ that was built in the area in the twelfth century.

He was then sent to Doctor Bruce ’ s Academy in Percy Street, Newcastle.

Research conducted by Newcastle University suggests that people ’ s desire to reside on the waterfront and enjoy recreation offered by the canal is upset by “ visually unattractive features, such as run-down derelict areas and poor design ” ( Fisher 2003 ).

Freedom from Torture ’ s Scotland center opened in Glasgow in 2004, followed by the Newcastle center in 2006 and the Birmingham center in 2009.

The group consisted of Palmerston, Lewis, Somerset, Russell, Newcastle, Lord Granville ( foreign secretary ) and the Duke of Cambridge ( commander-in-chief of the British Army ), advised by Earl de Grey ( Lewis ’ undersecretary ), Lord Seaton ( a former commander-in-chief in Canada ), General John Fox Burgoyne ( the inspector general of fortifications ) and Colonel P. L. MacDougall ( the former commander of the Royal Canadian Rifles ).

Albion ’ s first fixture was on 5 May 1888 against Shankhouse Blackwatch ( which is 9 miles North of Newcastle ).

Gleeson and Walmsley had met in 1981 at St Francis Xavier ’ s College in Hamilton, they first performed together for a school dance at the Newcastle Town Hall.

Bob Ellis wrote in Overland, ‘ What I think absorbs the reader in the deeply revelatory un-memoir Wild Amazement is ... Michael ’ s clear, almost hyper-real remembrance, as if experienced on a guided tour of a radiant, countercultural Disneyland, of a way of life, and a gravely joyous bohemia now gone, of how it was, and what a time it was, it really was, in Sydney in the sixties and seventies, in the Newcastle and the Journos ’ Club and the Push parties and the plans for a literary life .’ And in, Quadrant, Peter Corris wrote, ‘ Anyone interested in how contemporary Australian writing came to be the way it is, with its strengths and follies, its cliques and patrons, and the challenges it faces, will benefit from reading Wilding ’ s sensitive, sometimes bitchy, often funny and always intelligent tracing of his life ’ s trajectory .’ The Italian translation of Wild Amazement appeared in 2009.

Notable research awards in 2009 / 10 included funding from the Department of Health ’ s Policy Research Programme for a Northumbria-led national assessment of dementia care, in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh, Newcastle and Glamorgan.

Further IRC ’ s were planned at Luton, Reading, Sevenoaks, Brighton, Leeds, Newcastle, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth, Chelmsford and Norwich by the end of 1980.

KTBGSP combines the St. George ’ s University School of Medicine MD program with a one-year experience of medical education on the Northumbria University ( NU ) campus in Newcastle, United Kingdom.

The convent of Blackfriars was sold to the mayor and burgesses of Newcastle, who then leased it to nine of the town ’ s craft guilds, to be used as their headquarters.

Scott and Thurston played in Australia ’ s Test win against New Zealand in May, and were joined by Tonga for the victory against the Kiwis in Newcastle in October.

" Don Grubin, a professor at Newcastle University's Institute of Neuroscience who also runs a chemical castration program backed by the U. K .' s Ministry of Justice, was initially opposed to physical castration.

Grainger ’ s plans for the development of Newcastle town centre involved the demolition of the existing flesh market.

The crowning piece of Grainger ’ s plan for the development of Newcastle was to be a new street leading up from Dean Street to intersect with Blackett Street.

St Mary ’ s Place, Newcastle ( 1827 )

Newcastle is considered to be part of a rapidly growing area of northern McClain and Grady Counties.

In 2010, Newcastle was listed in the Top 10 fastest growing communities in Oklahoma with a population increase of 41. 4 % since 2000.

Blanchard is part of a rapidly growing area of northern McClain and Grady Counties known as the " Tri-City Area " with Newcastle and Tuttle.

Newcastle had for several years been growing increasingly interested in Foreign Affairs, and had been educating himself on the subtle ins-and-outs of diplomacy and the European State System.

Newcastle could scarcely contain his growing distate for Fox, who he considered grasping.

When growing up, Graham showed considerable promise as a footballer, and Newcastle United, Chelsea and Aston Villa displayed an interest in the young Graham.

The Lowland Clearances ( 1760 – 1830 ), especially, resulted in a massive movement of poor Scots from the Lowlands to the growing industrial centres of Glasgow and northern England – to Newcastle, Liverpool and eventually to London and other large cities and ports.

The New England Highway has its origins in the track which developed north from Newcastle to reach the prime wool growing areas of the New England region which Europeans settled following expeditions by New South Wales ( NSW ) Surveyor-General John Oxley in 1818 and botanist Allan Cunningham in 1827 and 1829.

Other UK Chinatowns are found in the English cities of Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds ( though not official ) and Newcastle, the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, the Welsh capital Cardiff and a growing population of Chinese immigrants are present in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The paper's circulation increased rapidly as Harry started featuring stories about groups in Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle, with circulation growing to 75, 000.