Bought my monthly 12 pack quaffed 1 little weird. Bottles of Newcastle Brown Ale were as abundant as the portraits of white menformer members of the gentlemen's clubon the pub's walls. Im returning the two unopened cases tomorrow. What a stupid move! And then its no longer available here in Hawaii except for kegs. Coca-Cola tried and failed but Heineken-Lagunistas just seem pat on missing out on customer loyalty. Pre-Owned. 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. just wish I had read this before buying 4 casestoo bitter and just is not my old New Castle AleIm gone! This is a slap in the face. Bland boring beer. Its a whole new recipe that is a disgrace and embarrassment to the original Newcastle Brown Ale. Newcastle used to be a unique good beer. 7.99. Thanks for ruining what was once my favorite beer. Lot of people found the taste and experience disgusting tbh. greedy hipster pieces of shite!!!! Ok I guess I will lead off with my opinion BUT if you are still reading this heres what I think. Could someone recommend another English Ale that I might buy instead? I dont think its that bad, but I do prefer the original. Its not fit for pigs. Also Brown was never available on tap, only in pint (English pint ie 20oz) bottles. This is my new choice. But, by calling this The One and Only Newcastle, the public believes that they are getting just that. Who cares, your still making money and if selling elsewhere, then why not keep importing it to the US? The old packaging made me think of English pubs, which fits that mood. Search. Newcastle is Newcastle. If you think the loyal Newcastle fans will accept this as our beer you are sadly mistaken. You took another one away. Would not buy another bottle. Just make a new brand if you want. All Grain, ABV 5.08%, IBU 27.79, SRM 14.21, Fermentables: (Maris Otter Pale, Crystal 45L, Torrified Wheat, Black Malt, Chocolate) Hops: (Kent Goldings) Other: (Whirlfloc) . This isnt a new Kool-Aid recipe. A bit of a Beer snob here and I can honestly say Im very disappointed in both taste and new label. Another loyalist lost, good luck. shame on you Heineken. What a waste! Just make a new brand if you want. In order to achieve this goal, we may collect information from you. Why did you have to touch it? WTF. I would by a case a month, but not anymore. I gave it a shot and, well, Im done. This new recipe is awful, it should have another name because it doesnt come anywhere close to the one and only! (190) 3.00. What is going on with the new label?! I was thrilled to find the list on this page of all the people that HATE the new Newcastle Brown Ale. It has a very bitter after taste like an IPA. I will not be purchasing Newcastle Brown in future, very sad.I was your biggest fan! This new taste is absolutely awful. I pounded Heineken and Lagunitas with my displeasure at what they have done. I cannot believe what they did. Just stopped by to congratulate you and thank you on ruining mine and apparently so many others favorite beer. I wont be drinking New Castle anymore, stupid change on your part!!! Trying a few we can report back. Supporting marketing includes social media engagements, plus new POS and on-premise materials. I wont drink it anymore and I wouldnt offer this crap to my worst enemy. Ruined my favorite beer. They are all pretentious pricks. I can only echo all of the other negative comments about the Newcastle brewed in the US by Lagunitas. If Heineken actually ruined Smithwicks as well, a major ass beating is due to those Dutch blowholes. I got it at locally (BevMo, RiteAid) in the past 30 days. Whats New at the Top Kentucky Bourbon Distilleries, Podcast: Talking Legal Topics with NABCA Leadership, April Meeting 3/24 (NOTICE) March Meeting Recap Olde Town Mash Paddler's, Beer in England: The Complete Guide - Beer N Biceps, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reimagining-icon-john-ledingham/, Agenda Announced for 7th Annual Beverage Alcohol Retailers Conference. Cant believe they would do this Theyre losing a life-long customer in me. There are no guarantees that a petition would be accepted, but it always helps to organize and document numbers. Bad Shepherd Hazelnut Brown Ale 355ml Can. Free standard shipping with $35 orders. I could not commenting on how good it tasted. Kind of bland, so less likely to nauseate non-fans; and, I suspect, made to drink chilled for the US palate. Bring back the old recipe. Only beer I bought. Newcastle used to define the English Brown Ale beer style. I migrated to Kilt Lifter a while back but went back to Newcastle (when it was really Newcastle). Saw teh label had changed wondered what was up. Also poured out 11 out of 12.. literally couldnt get myself to have another one. With its release in 1925, Newcastle Brown Ale set the stage for the success and future popularity of the style. You took the only decent ale on the market and ruined it. Youre worse than a cheap whore endorsing this abomination!!! I used to buy 100 cases a year at my small bar. For the past three decades, Newcastle Brown Ale has been my favorite adult beverage. Living in Hawaii means that not every beer type is available to us here, not to mention the cost. Terrible new taste. What have you done to my beer!!! Screw Heineken. The new one sucks. Shame on you!!!!! Very Disappointed. Turned a lot of friends on to it. Way to ruin a perfectly good beer. 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! I am so fooking pissed off right now too. No malt beverage involved. Bad business bad marketing decision. Read reviews and buy Newcastle Brown Ale - 6pk/12 fl oz Bottles at Target. Ill never buy Newcastle or Lagunitas again unless they fix what they broke. Some of the best beers to ever come out of the UK (Theakstons is running a close second). This new recipe flavor has an unpleasant bite. Because I just bought my last new castle ever. And promptly went to get a refund. It was like if Iced Tea was beer. But the Lagunitas version of this beer really missed maintaining the character and depth of the original, and thats a shame because another great beer marque has disappeared. Then I researched and saw that it is brewed by Lagunitas, the lame AF brewery that sued Sierra Nevada over a font. I have found out the old recipe is available in Holland. Ive drunk the Tyne Brewery version back the 60, and that was the best. Newcastle Brown Ale 121 Results ale brown bier Spiral Notebook By ercedeswood $13.16 $16.45 (20% off) Shearer 9 Raised Arm Celebration Sticker By FootballArcade From $2.52 Brown Ale Newcastle Sticker By otirno From $1.35 Classic Newcastle subbuteo team design Sticker By Subsnapper 73 From $1.68 Newcastle Brown Ale Sticker So this is now an American brown. Stop this nonsense and bring back the original. Check availability. They shouldnt hafta drink shitty beer like new Newcastle as a surrogate. I am an Honorably Discharged United States ARMY Reservist with the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division and the 505th Parachute Regiment and Native to Arizona. And I dont like IPAs. "We will now achieve the distinctive colouring and flavour of Newcastle Brown Ale, that our consumers enjoy, by using roasted malts instead." The chemical causing the fuss is. Heineken: Get this poor excuse for a beer off the market and bring back a winner! Nor does the beer-geek part, including a 500-barrel German-made brew system that looks like the massive gleaming engines of the Starship Enterprise. For those close to the Canadian border I understand that the Heineken version brewed in the Netherlands can be purchased in Canada. British Brown Ales were pretty popular and trended upward until the beginning of the 18th century. BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL, PLEEEEEEAAAASE!!!!! 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. Please change the recipe back, it doesnt even kind of taste like Newcastle. If this is what they do to a classic cherished beer then they have ZERO taste and ZERO class! Smithwicks, Smithwicks Smithwicks, Smithwicks, Smithwicks Smithwicks! Lets make it like other crap beers but still have that microbrewery feel to it. What is Heineken thinking? It did lift my kilt a little bit but a little high on the alcohol content so now drinkin the Samual Adams Octoberfest . Leave it to an American based brewery to assassinate that was a great, unique tasting dark ale. Ive always had Newcastle Brown Ale on the self, because it was a personal favorite, going back to my traveling in Britain in the 1970s. A lovely treat, crisp, nutty brown ale, like God intended, a joy to savor. Ill never buy this garbage again. Lost even more when it was brewed in Yorkshire. 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. I cannot drink it! You ruined the Only beer I ever enjoyed. This new American version sucks! Get yourself a home brew kit, a few Cornelius Kegs, and a copy of the book Clone Brews and make your own. Please continue to enjoy our brands responsibly. Now Im bummed because its gone. Take all remaining bottles and kegs back to where they were purchased and claim fraud. or Best Offer. Id rather drink my own urine than the new castle brewed in the U.S how can I get the good stuff. Its like a very light rum or maybe a vodka. Is there any way you could continue offering the old New Castle Nut Brown Ale? It makes no sense! It went down really well. We can only hope. Because you have done this I will not be drinking Brown Sugga,Pilsner, lil Sumpthin, or any beer . I agreeafter having consumed many gallons of Newcastle Nut Brown Ale in my day, I am sadly disappointed with this new version. Why would a company make such a major change in a beer and think that its followers wouldnt notice. Hell, if I just wanted to drink alcohol, and didnt care about the flavor, Id use sugar, water, and yeast. If they wanted another spin off why not New Castle IPA along with the original like several years ago when they had Werewolf? Like another person said, If it aint broke, dont fix it. USA: (FL) Dunedin . Not only am I never buying this again, Im never buying another Heineken product again EVER out of spite! My least favorite brewery in America was making one of my formerly favorite English ales. I am very disappointed with the new beer, its terrible and I wont purchase any more unless it goes back to the original formula. Good God this stuff is awful. Newcastle was my favorite beer for years and years, now it isnt. My wife is from Ukraine & they can still get the real thingbut Americans are screwed. Some fans may decry that this U.K. classic has become completely Americanized. Sorry. Ill be switching to Alaskan Amber now and hoping the original comes back! Over there in the USA youve got masses of great local breweries all producing far better brews than this multi national factory brewed crap use your local brewery I know the States and I know that the beer you produce is excellent stuff. Get on it! I cant say it enough. How rare it was in those days. Great business plan Lagunitas, take an already great ale and wipe your asses all over it? Screw you Heineken. Its all about money. When I got home and trepidatiously opened a can and tried a sip I was sold! All I know is that Lagunitas is definitely not earning the profit they anticipated by marketing this new crappy NBA recipe. What the hell did you do to the best brown ale ever? Did you not learn from Coke? . Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Louis I have drank Newcastle for years and loved that it was a smooth and light, brown ale. I hope the New Castle people read this. Plus it has more alcohol so I am forced to drink less. Too many choices out ther to worry about Heiniken mistake, screw them! But then that persons other favorite would be Bud Light. Newcastle Brown Ale is a brown ale, originally brewed in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Where can I buy my old Newcastle??????? How is the soul the same at all?? black malt 1.5 oz. If its brewed by a different brewery, using a different recipe, and distributed in different packaging, in what sense is it still the same product? Its perfectly balanced: roasted-malt caramel flavor with a subtle bitter backbone, more so than the old recipe. Change it back. If it aint broke dont fix it. my favorite and only the one and only beer for over 30 years. Will be the last I purchase unless its changed back. How will losing every New Castle drinker help you sell more beer. I did not realize that it would be the last Newcastles I would ever drink. 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. Total dumbass move. Its been my all-time favorite and go-to since that day. At Safeway it was always located in the Local section just because it was called Aloha Brewing Co. I usually shop for all of my brew at the Navy Exchange, so if they dont have it I will probably just move on. Why dont they re-imagine their own brand and actually make it taste better than a skunk anus? Now I cant even finish one! The new taste is horribly disappointing! Considering all the things that government does that it has no business doing, the one thing it should do is protect the public from fraud. Fuck them sideways, Fuck it all. DONT YOU GET IT???????? For that reason alone I wont be buying it anymore. Boycott laguitas for changing new castle. After that I guess Im SOL! There are other good brews out there. Only 3 left. The new recipe is very disappointing. Worryingly packaged in a clear glass bottle, the blue . Its just bitter enough to not be smooth yet not enough aroma and flavor hops if one were to go for a pale or ipa for citrus. Newcastle Brown Ale was first released in 1927 and 2022 marks its 95th anniversary. Why would you want to ruin such a good beer like that??? Why would they change Newcastle ? I suspect that Heinekin did some advertising and NCBA became the Fad beer to go to by those that listen to that stuff. Ive been drinking the new recipe and it is disappointing. The company has announced the March 2019 relaunch of Newcastle Brown Ale, brewed by Lagunitas Brewing Company. Heineken moved production of Newcastle Brown Ale from the Netherlands to the US. WE DONT WANT AN IPA. People just quit drinking it. Now it is back to those of us who drink NCBA because we love it. Most Recent Top Raters Highest Score Rated By Ticked By 3.3 tontalus (1527) - - DEC 26, 2022 Did NOBODY learn anything from the New Coke debacle in the 80s??? New New Castle completely sucks! Wouldnt give to my worst enemy. 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. NEWCASTLE BROWN ALE 4FT Wall Sign Plaque bottle beer Pub Bar Man cave garage . Can you please pass on my friendly complaint to Lagunitas, who I think is brewing Newcastle under license in CA , regarding their brewing of Newcastle beer. I had no idea they changed the recipe and tried the new stuff yesterday and was terribly disgusted with this brew. Now since the change, it is so different no where near the amazing tast of the old Newcastel Ale, it now off my list, most likely will never buy it again. I fell in LOVE with NewCastle Brown Ale several years ago. Make it 9 people so far. Pretty shi&$y to change the recipe and play it off as an updated logo/packaging change. Its becoming easier to find outside of Texas now too! But I was really bummed out by the taste. Holidays coming soonI have 18 originals on chill that are getting a bit old..but old original NBA is light years better than Lagunitas ass-water. Incredibly bad idea. Im drinking ROGUE Hazelnut Brown Nectar Ive poured this into a New Castle glass that I have, and it looks just like the real thing! Totally idiotic to change the recipe. Newcastle was my favorite ale, but the new recipe has no flavor or taste. Americans would puke if they tasted the good stuff from way back Especially if served at room temperature like it used to be. I have been drinking Newcastle Ale for more than 19 years and am DISGUSTED by the change. Customer loyalty is your brand!!! queendifabfinds (4,847) 100%. It went down hill when it was brewed in Dunston at the federation brewery. In this way, your customers will not be duped into buying a cheap imitation. fucking ruined. Because it is not the Newcastle Beer it SHOULD be. Ive literally bought the new Newcastle maybe 20 times since its changed. 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. My bartender brought me a bottle, and not having heard about the change, I told her I ordered a Newcastle. I shall never buy another unless I see a new marketing campaign indicating that they have gone back to the old recipe. FREE UK delivery. What you have done is absolutley ruin a wonderful recipe. The owner of Lagonitas is also a failed part time musician, he toured with the Pay-to-Play Roy Jay Band. My new go to brew is Smithwicks (pronounced Smiddicks) Red Ale. What the hell is the mater with some businesses when take over some the first thing they think they have to do is fix it, hey dumbasses if its not broke DONT fix it!!!!!! Turn it back!!!. In stock. Please, listen to your faithful customers. I know it is brewed in the Netherlands but they did retain the classic flavor. Maybe we can bombard them to point that they see our point, because we are never going to come on board with this crap. 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. I despise the taste of the majority of micro brewery beers, and now one of my old favorites tastes like all that other crap. I have been drinking it for around 40years. Ill have to agree with everyone on this topic! this is such fucking bullshit. I found this link from a new poster. Newcastle was just and ugly, berry flavored beer but people loved it. At least it should be!!! I too gave you a year to improve it, but this is the last bottle for me. Heartbroken about Newkie, which I I bought without ever checking the price. If there is an upstart brewer out there that could duplicate the old beer I believe they could do well from all of us that prefer the old recipe. What just happened? This stuff is nothing Like the original. Please sell the old recipe to someone who loves beer. We know it might not be for everyone and are bummed that you are disappointed. I complained to Heineken and they sent me a check for $7.00. After all, the new recipe includes classic Lagunitas hops: Centennial and Chinook. With all the other BS lawsuits out there this pretty seems valid, to me?.? Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Knowing him, theres sure to be a fair level of truth in what he says. I couldnt even finish the first bottle, so the rest is going down the toilet; I wont subject my sink to this swill. This new Newcastle absolutely blows! Please revive the old recipe so I can enjoy beer again. I couldnt figure out why it tasted so weird, the new label shit. This is now the worst beer on the market. Its just so sad to see a company completely ignore their legacy fanbase. Ive been drinking this beer since the early 90s and this is just disgraceful. Theyve lost another regular customer. Try it, youll love it! I have been exclusively drinking New Castle for 20+ years and I will now have to change brands. I jumped online to see what was going on and realized they completely 5#17 the bed. I agree with every one who posted above me. Those brewing and selling this new beer are not simply guilty of false advertising, but money has been exchanged and people are not getting what they thought they were. Why would they even continue to call it Newcastle? Once the big conglomerates buy a beer they typically ruin it. I dont know if I can find it easily but Ill buy it. Production moved from Newcastle to Gateshead at the end of 2004 and to Tadcaster on closure of the Dunston brewery in 2010. Congrats, youre losing all your US customers. I will try and explain a couple things before I tell you how much this new flavor sucks sweaty donkey nuts. Anbefalet serveringstemperatur: 4-6 C. Alk. What did I get? 64.99. Will NOT be purchasing this, nor anything by Lagunitas and, if I can help it, anything from the Heineken conglomerate. It definitely not the drink I remember, mow its so bland and totally lost its originality. Wont be buying any more. Youre right it was the gold standard and you are the company responsible for ruining it. Ive bought my last Newcastle. Just flavorless bitter water with absolutely no body, taste, or texture. This new bitter Lagunitas shit is horrible and I will not be a Newcastle patron any longer! Ruined a great beer. Ive been drinking New Castle Brown Ale They mentioned how many calls like mine they have had and that they are still taking input and may adjust. Hey I havent had a NBA in a long time, I said. Lagunitas are making the same mistake Coca Cola made with New Coke. There are now many similar options out there, some only local or regional. This is just another of a million terrible beers pumped out each year to please the people occasionally drinking beer that know absolutely nothing about beer. I cant see how sales had slumped if everyone that drinks it is complaining. See new coke One more customer lost. I do not like or drink IPA. Im so sad I cant get my favorite beer anymore. I went by today and there was another six. New New Castle Brown Ale is an even worse recipe change! 6. When sales improve, the brand may consider extensions. The makers should be ashamed of themselves for serving this bland liquid as the Famous Newcastle Brown Ale. Thats $7 more than its worth. Has similar bottle name and label but is not Newcastle. The sad truth is that the new owners dont care about our opinions. The new recipe is garbage. On the other hand if you got it I. Your life doesnt matter. I actually spit it out! It has been live for over 6 weeks and only 54 have signed. Im sure it wont matter for Heineken, they probably did the math this will cut costs and they will turn a higher profit in the end typical these days, The new Newcastle sucks nothing like the old stuff just bought 68 cases from total beverage at 11.99 a case get it while it lasts R.I.P new castle. Oh, they changed the bottle, ok. This is one of the dumbest decisions I can imagine. Then I looked it up. After the 2nd purchase I realized it wasnt only the bottle that changed, the brewery and flavor had changed. Ill be replacing it with Dos-X Amber, Dirty Bastard, Black & Tan, Red Jacket Ale, Loch Down and Yuengling Amber. I hope they go out of business!!!!!!!!!! You wont another from me! I will now look for a new beer to enjoy. Avoid. 65 years old grew up in newcastle. Laguntas and Heineken you should be ashamed of yourselves. See new coke I remember back in the 1990s there was a wonderful brewery called Petes Wicked Ale. Had you left the recipe intact and advertised the benefits of the brown bottle, you would have been a hero. But this is neither a nice malty semi sweet low hop brown ale like we all came to know and love. Newcastle is an icon of beer and youve completely ruined it. What in the Hell happened to New Castle. Det er en mrk l uden sidestykke: Den har bde karakter og er drikkevenlig. Cause they killed your beer, If I owned Newcastle (and I dont) I also really loved to get it in the mini keg when available and have it on draft. How long before the suits at Heineken buy them out and screw me over again. Not everything needs extra hops. https://isitbigbeer.com/brand/heineken. Why change perfection? or Best Offer. https://WWW.NEWCASTLEBROWN.COM Ruined my favorite beer. However, there are other great options out there, like Bass. Beer. Heinekens all about the bottom dollar, not in producing a quality brew. Anybody else heard this? Brown bottle and label also dont cut it either. Can we move it back to the Netherlands? Wont buy again until its changed back. Bring back the original. Unfortunately, they are not concerned with their loyal customers and think they can jump on the crap beer train and trick people into thinking they are drinking a Newcastle. I am really angry that youve done this to my favorite beer. No more Newcastle purchases for me and Lagunitas, you are now on my sh*t list, it will be a while before I can buy any of your products again after this stunt. We dont drink IPAs and this is too bitter. But the reality is this is most definitely NOT Newcastle Brown Ale and is a fraud on consumers. Dont overthink it!!!!! Nothing wrong with that but dont call it Newcastle. At least the single New Coke I tried before switching to Pepsi. I dont understand the Big FUSS over IPAs. NCBA, Rest In Peace ! Thank you, Lagunitas, for ruining one of my favorite beers. This is NOT Newcastle Brown Ale. Let the hate and honesty continue until the LEGEND returns!!!! Bad move Newcastle, you will be extinct in 12 months! Seriously, at least call it something different rather than passing it off as what it used to be. It does have a little bit of an IPA bite which I do not need in a brown ale. We've cut our emissions when making our beers and ciders by 68% since 2008. 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. PEOPLE. Newcastle had been my go-to beer for years. They ruined Newcastle. It is a completely different beer which does not even approach what Newcastle was Devastated. Well slip of the fingersFAT TIRE! I miss the old recipe, and I wish it was back to that, but its not terrible. If its not broke dont try to fix it! Im from Arkansas this is my favorite beer and have been a loyal customer for years but this horse piss is not the beer I once enjoyed now Im shopping around looking thanks Lagunitas. Changing the coloring agent didnt destroy it prior to that. I wouldnt even boil sausage in this pedestrian sewage. Bottles of the new flavor ship in March. I will never buy another Lagunita or Heineken product as long as I live! All in all, I was a loyal customer of that brand BECAUSE of its Englishness, the flavor, the pour, the look. I urge you the call or email Heineken and voice your displeasure and distaste. The new flavor literally took away everything that made the pre-Heineken Newky worthwhile. Yall shot yourself in the foot on this one!! This new recipe brings the word insipid to mind. But hopefully others find your post helpful. They ruined it! February 7, 2019. I keep hoping every time that I will get over the fact that the beer isnt even the same GOD DAMN FUCKING BEER. Just take what you have and give it to someone you dont like and search for a worthy replacement. You guys are freaking hilarious! Shame on Heineken! Thank you for a genuinely well-constructed blog post. The original was unique and distinct! 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 term brown beer was first used by London brewers in the late 1600s to describe their products, such as mild ale. I believe you can still get proper Newcastle brown in Canada, so more trips heading north. Im in beer mourning. I will be complaining anywhere I see this and ANY lagunitas beer always. I miss that very distinct flavor. I just bought a 6 pack last night and boy oh boyThis is some awful stuff. Why buy the name, just make your own shitty brown beer. Newcastle Brown Ale was first brewed in 1927 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, by Jim Porter after three years of development. Today. Sad day indeed. Bummer there are an infinite number of hoppy ales available out there, Newcastle didnt need to be another one. I havent had a beer in well over a year while giving up alcohol in solidarity for my wife while she was pregnant. YUCK! the other guy. Did we need another IPA.?? Total ass-hat move by these guys. Guess Ill go to something elsr, Hard day at work, head to the store for my favorite brew. Now, someone decided to screw the pooch and change the recipe. They are in lockdown, but I hope to hear back at some point. Remember The New Coke. You have just lost a long time customer. How do I get the Real New Castles??? Think of all the new craft brews that are selling. Thanks a lot for nothing. Rant over! Please change the receipe back. So disappointing. I dont know why theyd change it; those who liked Newcastle likely did so because it was its own thing, not because it was derivative. You should get together and work on destroying some of the over-population of overly-hopped beers, instead of ruining a classic. It just tastes like bad coffee to me. Who knows! If a beer tastes great for as long as New Castle, why do you you think you can make it better?! I had to google why does Newcastle taste like shit now? To find this article. I have noticed the NewCraple showing up on draught in pubs. You dont change the recipe on a beer! Wow this is the most nasty shit in the WORLD!!! 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. 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