Editing Newcastle Brown Ale (section)

===Tyne Brewery, Newcastle===
Newcastle Brown Ale was originally created by Lieutenant Colonel James ('Jim') Herbert Porter (b. 1892, Burton upon Trent), a third-generation brewer at [[Newcastle Breweries]], in 1927. Porter had served in the [[North Staffordshire Regiment]] in the First World War, earning his [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] with [[Medal bar|Bar]], before moving to Newcastle. Porter had refined the recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale alongside chemist Archie Jones over a period of three years.<ref name="Jenkins">{{cite news|last=Jenkins|first=Dan|title=CITY'S STAR HAS FALLEN|newspaper=The Northern Echo|date=28 May 2005}}</ref> When Porter actually completed the beer, he believed it to be a failure, as he had actually been attempting to recreate [[Bass ale]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/cuttings/cuttingpdfs/9793/113_FEATURE%202_NEWCASTLE%20BROWN.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=12 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108201014/http://s3.amazonaws.com/cuttings/cuttingpdfs/9793/113_FEATURE%202_NEWCASTLE%20BROWN.pdf |archive-date=8 January 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> The original beer had an [[original gravity]] of 1060º and was 6.25 [[ABV]],<ref>Whitbread Gravity book held at the London Metropolitan Archives, document number LMA/4453/D/02/001</ref> and it sold at a premium price of 9 [[shilling]]s for a dozen pint bottles.<ref name="Jenkins"/>

Newcastle Brown Ale went into production at Tyne Brewery in 1927, with Newcastle Breweries having occupied the site since 1890, and brewing on the site dating back to 1868.<ref name=BBC4580171/>

The blue star logo was introduced to the Newcastle Brown Ale bottle in 1928, the year after the beer was launched. The five points of the star represent the five founding breweries of Newcastle.

After the merger of Scottish Brewers with Newcastle Breweries in 1960, Newcastle Brown Ale became a flagship brand of [[Scottish & Newcastle]] alongside [[McEwan's Export]] and Younger's Tartan Special.

By 1997, Scottish and Newcastle claimed that it was the most widely distributed alcoholic product in both [[pubs]] and [[off licences]] in the country.<ref>The Evening Standard (London)  12 February 1997 Wednesday  'NEWKY' ON TAP SECTION: D; Pg. 21</ref>