Vintage Newcastle brown ale advertising mirrors incredible brewery collectables.
Vibrant Newcastle brown ale mirror with stand-out fonts, a great picture of a man enjoying his beer, fantastic slogan and interesting price information, and a very stylish piece with further unique branding information.
Nice wooden frame with gold edging.
It is in nice vintage condition with minimal signs of authentic patina.
Height: 45cm
Length: 60cm
Width: 2cm
Newcastle Brown Ale is a brown ale, brewed initially in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Launched in 1927 by Colonel Jim Porter after three years of development, the 1960 merger of Newcastle Breweries with Scottish Brewers afforded the beer national distribution, and sales peaked in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s.
Newcastle Brown Ale was created by Lieutenant Colonel James ('Jim') Herbert Porter (b. 1892, Burton upon Trent), a third-generation brewer at Newcastle Breweries, in 1927. Porter served in the First World War in the North Staffordshire Regiment, earning his DSO with Bar before moving to Newcastle. Porter had refined the recipe for Newcastle Brown Ale alongside chemist Archie Jones over three years. When Porter completed the beer, he believed it to be a failure, as he had been attempting to recreate Bass ale.
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 five founding breweries of Newcastle.