Anger as Newcastle Brown Ale production moves to Tadcaster

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You wouldn?t expect to drink champagne from Sheffield, chianti from Keighley or Scotch whisky from Scarborough...
But Newcastle Brown Ale lovers learned yesterday that the legendary tipple is to be brewed in Yorkshire.
Makers Scottish & Newcastle angered Geordies and millions across the world by announcing that production of ?Broon? will switch from their Tyneside plant to John Smith?s Brewery in Tadcaster from the middle of next year.
They said the Dunston plant in Gateshead was closing as it was no longer viable due to the recession, but they would make ?every effort? to find jobs for the 63 workers under threat.
Production of Best Scotch beer and Exhibition ale will also end. Staff learned the news as they arrived yesterday and talks with unions are under way.
Union leader Jeff Tate, of Unite, said: ?To see a day when Newcastle Brown Ale is no longer brewed on Tyneside is a disgrace.?

[forntida]

Daigo are going to close the Johnnie Walker plant at Kilmarnock and move it to the east of Scotland. Walkers was started in Kilmarnock nearly 200 years ago. A name goes for nothing nowadays. It is all shareholders, shareders etc. I'm afraid the 'Broon' is going the same way.

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If 50 year ago you'd have told yer grandad, 'Rolls Royce would be owned by Germans', how many clips around the head would you have got?
Woulda been a cracking bet at Ladbrooks tho.

[manxspud]

All i can remember about the brown ale is that it is not a good idea to drink loads of it when also drinking Guiness.

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All i can remember about the brown ale is that it is not a good idea to drink loads of it when also drinking Guiness.

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so u got the 2 bob bits eh m8

[manxspud]

Thankfully i lived alone at the time... and was toooo p*ssed to take anybody home with me.

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To be young and stupid.

[bvilleuk]

?To see a day when Newcastle Brown Ale is no longer brewed on Tyneside is a disgrace.?

More importantly -- If Newcastle Brown goes --what are the Tynesiders going to clean their paint brushes in ??!!

[ruudvandan]

it's a disgusting drink anyway

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it's a disgusting drink anyway

Hadaway and shite ysa bloody ~~~~a, It's a luverly drink, I always drink it when ah gaan yam.

[ruudvandan]

Hadaway and shite ysa bloody ~~~~a, It's a luverly drink, I always drink it when ah gaan yam.

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