Newcastle Werewolf

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

Serve in English pint

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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

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.

I would rate this much higher if it was strictly a draft rating. It is malty and has a great look, but lacking in pleasurable aroma. My first try was a bottle we acquired from the distributor, I did not care for it. We still picked up a keg for the bar and it is selling. I even have one from time to time, but the earthy aftertaste seems to conflict with the aroma... even on draft. I like it, but I don’t...

Bottle. On first sip it had a bit of a boozy taste, which was kind of surprising considering how low on alcohol content it is. Afterward it mellowed, and really just tasted like a nasty red ale. Not a fan and can’t recommend it, I mean if you’re stepping up from a Killian’s or something then have at it, but this isn’t a universally "good" beer. 4.5% abv.

Reddish amber with a small bubbled white head. Nose of malt, metal, new plastic. Taste is similar-plastic, wet cardboard, watery. Luckily for me, I have come to expect crap from the Newcastle name so I was not disappointed.

lots of earth and peat. sharp lightly frothy head adds little as does the body which is moderate, with light grain and otherwise lifeless. hint of ivy.