Newcastle Brown Ale to be a failure, as he had actually been attempting to recreate Bass ale. The original beer had an original gravity of 1060º and was 6.25 ABV, and it sold at a premium price of 9 shillings for a dozen pint bottles. Newcastle Brown Ale went into production at Tyne Brewery in 1927, with Newcastle Breweries having occupied the site since 1890, with brewing on the site dating back to 1868. 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
Burton Ale Burton pale ale. That might explain why Young's [brewery in Wandsworth] changed the name of their Burton to Winter Warmer in the early 1970s." "Where Burton ales survive today, they are called old ales, winter warmers or barley wine rather than by their correct designation." Young's Winter Warmer (Young’s Burton until 1971) "is a ruby-brown classic of the sort of ales that developed from those brewed in Burton upon Trent before that town became best known for heavily hopped pale ales and IPAs: well-rounded, mellow, old-oak dark, 1055 OG, but only five per cent ABV, and with a brown, fruity