Brown ale include sweet, low alcohol beers such as Manns Original Brown Ale, medium strength amber beers of moderate bitterness such as Newcastle Brown Ale, and malty but hoppy beers such as Sierra Nevada Brown Ale. In the 18th century, British brown ales were brewed to a variety of strengths, with original gravities (OG) ranging from around 1.060 to 1.090. Around 1800, brewers stopped producing these types of beers as they moved away from using brown malt as a base. Pale malt, being cheaper because of its higher yield, was used as a base for all beers, including Porter and Stout. The
Caffrey's Irish Ale established in Belfast in 1897 and taken over by Bass in 1974, closed in 2004, so ending big company brewing in Northern Ireland. Caffrey's Irish Ale Caffrey's Irish Ale is an ale launched in 1994 by Bass Brewery and currently owned by Molson Coors. The Caffrey brewing family first brewed beer in Dublin in the late 18th century, about thirty years after the Guinness brewery was founded. They too sited their brewery on the River Liffey, a few hundred yards east of the Guinness site. Caffrey’s Irish Ale was re-launched in 1994 and marketed as a beer which combined features