White Plains, N.Y.-based Heineken USA’s Newcastle beer brand is kicking off a brand-new series of “collaboration edition” beers made with some of Europe’s finest and oldest breweries. To brew the first offering in the series, the brand turned to its Edinburgh, Scotland-based sister brewery Caledonian to develop an ale that brings world-class traditional British brewing to casual beer drinkers around the world, Newcastle explains.
The Newcastle Scotch Ale collaboration is a limited-time offering from Newcastle and Caledonian that represents a rich, full-flavored and fulfilling Scottish ale with toffee notes at 6.4 percent alcohol by volume and 40 international bittering units, the brand says.