Drinking the Dog

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drwalpurgis@blueyonder.co.uk, from Newcastle England, told me this today:

"Salmon have returned to the Tyne, and the water's supposed to be clean enough to drink. But Brown Ale (known here in Newcastle as "dog"), is purely for export. Sure, it's better than any of that American piss that masquerades as "beer", but we still won't touch the stuff."

Wow! and I thought I was so cool paying $11.00 a 6 pack drinking the "dog". My question is... WHAT IS AVAILABLE IS THE USA THAT IS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU BRITS?!

― chaki, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Avoid any beer in clear glass bottles. Green bottles, too, are suspect.

― geeta, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i love newcastle and guiness but hate molson , continue

― anthony, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know - what do you drink that you consider British.

N.B. I've never been to Newcastle, but in the rest of the UK, Newcastle Brown Ale has a decent market among... a weird set of people.

Next you're going to be telling me that people in Malibu don't actually drink Malibu.

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like a nice bottle of dog occasionally, from a half pint glass of course.

― chris, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i were exception to rule. grew up in north, drink dog. can't stand people calling it "Newquay Brown" even if they mentally (!) spell it "Newc'y" cos it AIN'T FROM NEWQUAY or BOURNEMOUTH for that matter.

― Alan T, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have the same problem with Boddies

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The two Mackems and one Geordie in this office all drink it (one of them very rarely as "it turns me into a fucking monster") so I belive this chap may be talking out his arse.

It is lovely stuff though.

― chris, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah but Chris, they are ex-pat Geordies and cannot be trusted. People go funny when they leave their roots behind.

An Irish friend of mine says that until a couple of years ago, she thought 'ex-pat' was 'ex-Pat' and just referred to the Irish.

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ah, but they are merely down here during the week and go back up North at the weekend, for they are STEALING OUR JOBS!

quiz tonight btw?

― chris, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weekend Geordies and Mackems - pah! Quiz mmm. Anyone else?

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

JD and DD are coming too, I may well drink a bottle of dog in memorium of this thread.

― chris, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pfff i am a PROPAH geordie (= born in Jarrow, Tyne & Wear) and on the few occasions that I do 'ave an ale or 2 it is usually either newcastle brown ale or budvar. They do not mix well I have found both give me a bad hangover.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The single Christmas I spent away from home was in Newcastle and at the pub, after I'd finished my first "warm-up" pint, I got one of those big bottles and started pouring it in the glass I'd just emptied. My shocked friends quickly shouted "no no NO!!" because apparently it must be drunk from the bottle...? Pfft - rockists.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yr shox0r3d friends are F3\/\/LZ who should B0\/\/ & PH34R, tracer. The correct way to drink yer Brown Ale in a pub is to take the bottle and a HALF PINT GLASS. Pour the ale into the glass a bit at a time & drink it thusly. Yes, I know it's silly.....

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it must be fouler than i remember if you can only drink it a bit at a time, har har. a guy from blythe i knew had three nipples.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

norman = OTM

― Alan T, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

indeed he is, as I pointed out upthread *sigh* no-one ever listens to me.

― chris, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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