Ages like a fine wine I’m told.

by cannymintprints

36 comments
  1. The kind of fine wine that started out as carbonated frat boy puke.

  2. Love the stuff, and yeah, I’d give that a ..cautious sip.

    My favourite thing about Newky Brown and other bottled beers was at Xmas and NY at the then local you could book a table, prepaying for whatever you thought you would drink – a bunch of friends that is.

    Come the evening, head into the pub, find the table they had given you and under that table was a crate, or crates, of everything bottled you had ordered.

    Drink, pop the empty back in the crate and never have to stand at the bar waving for attention.

    Pity where I live doesn’t do that now and that means, along with prices, I avoid those nights completely.

  3. If by “Ages like a fine wine” you mean “contrary to popular misconception can and does go off after a while and will taste utterly foul and make you sick” then yes, I suppose it does.

  4. I bought this at a car boot sale about 10 years ago for £1 and I’ve hung onto it ever since.

    Any ideas on what year it is? I’d assume it was around the time Britain was still switching from imperial to metric (hence the ml and fl oz) so could be anywhere from 1965 onwards?

  5. Does it say what the alcohol content is? I heard it was a lot stronger than it is now

  6. It used to be brewed in open vats. My high school friends saw a rat fall in once. Accounts for that unique taste.

  7. Ah, the good old days back before they turned it into an IPA.

  8. There are only a handful of times in 30 years I haven’t made it to bed after boozing. 1995 – Kelvin Grove, Sandyford. That ugly bastard. Never tried it since. Satan’s sweat.

  9. If you value your friends, family, lover, and toilet for the love of God don’t drink it. It’s potent enough fresh.

  10. Easily one of the fowlest fluid that you had to pay for ( saying that as a youngster i had diamond white , 20/20 and k cider and thunderbird red , early 90 were amazing )

  11. Get it down you and provide feedback lol.

    Newkie Brown… fabulous stuff.

  12. We come in peace……. When you’re sat on toilet blowing. You’ll sound just like the song haha

  13. That will be skunked really badly unless you kept it in the dark.

    However, I think it’ll taste perfect.

    Chill for 30 minutes, and enjoy.

  14. Mmmm looks delicious…let us know how it tastes…and how it tastes coming back up…

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