Newcastle Werewolf

Brewed by Caledonian (Heineken UK)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Edinburgh, Scotland

Serve in English pint

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Here’s how to make a Newcastle Werewolf: 1) Open an original Newcastle and leave it on a dark, damp surface (under a patio table, perhaps, to make sure it absorbs the night air). 2) In the morning, after you have accidentally kicked a tuft of cigarette ash into the bottle while smoking, pick up the Newcastle and stick it in the fridge under a rack of dripping pork tenderloin. 3) Let the bottle age, in this environment, for a week. 4) Enjoy the oily, stale, recycled taste.

Bottle at TPSA. Pours a weird gold-brown with no head to speak of; it’s just weird looking. Nose is light hops and not much else. There is some hops bitterness on the tongue, but for an ESB this has almost no body to it; it’s thin as Kate Moss. Finish is clean, at least. Insubstantial and forgettable.

Clear brown pour with a thin off white head that quickly faded to a ring. Aroma was plastic, nuts, and toast. Taste was initially plastic then finished with a really nice toasty nutty flavor. Don’t know if it was a bad bottle but I didn’t finish it.

12 ounce bottle. Pours a light clear amber (not blood red) with a small off-white head. Strange aroma of moldy, sour grain. Taste is a bit better, with sweet fruit, grain, and malt. Just nothing positive to say.

A: The pour is a clear light brown color with a finger of off-white head. S: A surprisingly roasty aroma. Lots of toasted malts with a definite nuttiness (though the nuts seem somewhat burnt). Light grass aromas with some hints of toffee. There is a bit of a butter note, however. T: Caramel, toffee, and lots of roasted malt. It’s quite bitter and quite buttery. Lightly fruity (raisins, perhaps) with a definite grass flavor. Really not a good combination on the palate. M: Very light in body, in fact, watery, with medium carbonation. O: The nose started off okay, but once the butter crept in, it was all over.

Bottled. Poured light-medium reddish-brown with a well-retained off-white head. The aroma picked up biscuity malts, sweet caramel, and lesser vegetal notes with grassy and grainy hops around. The flavor found more of the vegetal stuff plus some other bad malt, with lesser caramel and toffee in there too.. some funky tartness around, but not much bitterness.. quick finish with nothing good sticking around. Light-bodied with scratchy bitterness on the palate.. moderate-plus carbonation.. this was a bad beer.

Okay let’s give this wolf a go. Pours a softer reddish brown with a nice fine white head. Aroma is dull plastic, margarine, and I know this is probably psychosomatic but it really does smell like red food coloring! It tastes like it too! weird soft buttery bitterness, sour grain, dull and plasticy, soft rye... just odd and lifeless. Palate is so flat....

Mediium brown with a reddish hue. Notes of phenol, musty rubber, and sweet malt on the nose. Yeasty sourdough and corn cereal taste. Light to medium body. Aftertaste is most unpleasant. I’d say it was thrown out of Britain.

12 oz bottle thanks to 17thfloor. Pours a amber color with a big pillowy off white head. Aroma of sweet sugary malt candy and a bit of a bready grain character, a touch metallic too. Flavor starts sweet and grainy with a touch of fruitiness. Picks up some caramel and...hmmm maybe a hint of rye, but its all so bleck because of the odd metallic and cardboardy note. A light bitterness in the finish. Light to medium body and a soft carbonation. Not very good at all.

the fall newcastle. Very deep amber color like the rusty color of dried blood. The aroma is a bit astringent and grain but some blueberry in there as well. Taste is a bit sweet caramel but full grain taste. A little hop int he finish. Carbonation pretty high. a little blah over all