Beervana (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Seeing Stan's post about Newcastle jogged my memory about another item I forgot to post. First, Stan's news: Heineken, which owns Scottish & Newcastle, announced it is closing the brewery that currently brews Newcastle Brown Ale and moving production to Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. (He has more texture, if you are interested in lost, historically-significant breweries. The item I forgot to post...
Real Ale Reviews (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
This week saw the end of Newcastle Brown Ale production in the North-East, as Scottish & Newcastle Brewery, one of the largest brewing conglomerates in the UK, announced they are shifting production of ‘Newcy Broon’ to one of their other plants in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. This marks the end of over 90 years of a brewing [...]
Appellation Beer (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Heineken, which owns Scottish & Newcastle, announced it is closing the brewery that currently brews Newcastle Brown Ale and moving production to Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. Newcastle Brown first went on sale in 1927 and was brewed next to the St. James Park football ground in Newcastle. In fact, brand owners won Protected Geographical Indication status from [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Dutch owner Heineken to close brewery that makes Newcastle Brown with the loss of 63 jobs Heineken, which bought the UK operations of Scottish & Newcastle last year, is to close the Federation Brewery in Gateshead. The closure of the site, which makes Newcastle Brown Ale, will result in 63 job losses. Cuts at other Heineken plants in the UK will lead to a further 100 jobs going over two years....
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Newcastle Brown Ale will no longer be brewed on Tyneside but in Tadcaster North Yorkshire its makers have announced.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Heineken, the Dutch brewer, is to shift production of Newcastle Brown Ale from Gateshead to the John Smith's brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, as part of a fresh assault on costs.
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 27/07/2009
Cultivation of a field of potatoes designed to be resistant to pests were abandoned over a year ago when environmental protesters ripped up the crop But, without alerting the public as is usual when such trials begin, the project has been restarted, prompting environmental groups to warn that local farms and nearby residents could be put at risk. 400 plants in the field, near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
Instead of trying to reduce the number of free music downloads on the internet, the government should be trying to increase them ( Costs to British economy of free downloads is revealed , 29 May). Digitisation and the internet have turned copyright law into an appallingly restrictive anachronism. Information technology gives us the potential to provide free and universal access to almost all human...
The President and Vice President of the Methodist... (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
When the Conference came to an end last Thursday, Liz and I spent the afternoon in Wolverhampton seeing all (or at least some of) the sights we hadn't had the chance to see during the Conference week. We then set off for Stoneleigh, the Royal Agricultural Society's showground, where we were to spend the night before attending the last day of the last Royal Show. This was an amazing event, with lots...
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