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
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