Newcastle Brown Ale and ale in the Federation Brewery site in Dunston, Gateshead, which was to pass to them with their £7.2m purchase of the Federation Brewery. The purchase and consolidation at Dunston created the new brewing company, Newcastle Federation Breweries. The last production run of Brown Ale in Newcastle came off the Tyne Brewery line in May 2005. Pre-production trial brews were conducted at Dunston to ensure no change occurred in its taste after the move. The Tyne Brewery site was bought by a consortium of Newcastle University, Newcastle City Council, and the regional development agency One NorthEast, as part of the
Burton Ale Ale was brewed by collecting the first and richest wort and fermenting it separately to make strong ale... [It] would have been brewed from malt paler than the brown high-dried malt used for porter, but one that was still much darker than modern pale ale malts." It was "the original dark, rather sweet beer the brewers of Burton upon Trent made and exported to Russia before they started brewing even paler, bitterer India Pale Ales in the 1820s". "Burtons vary in flavour, some are quite strongly hopped, others retain the bitter-sweet flavour of mild beer." Burton Ales were generally aged