When I first started going out drinking in the rock pubs and venues around Yorkshire Newcastle Brown was the main drink everyone had. Always drunk out of the bottle this really was the drink adopted by the rockers and if you wanted a bar snack to go with it then it was a packet of pork scratchings.
A Brown ale is much darker and richer in taste than many of the other ales and is always best when drunk from the bottle, although some of the older generation who drank it preferred a half pint glass that they'd keep topping up.
When I moved up to Sunderland I discovered that cities best kept secret that was Vaux Brewery's Double Maxim which was a far better drink but is not as readily available as Newcastle Brown. (If you're in the UK I think Morrisons stock it.)
Today is the first time I've had a bottle of Brown in many years and I'd forgotten just how well it goes down, really I should have bought a couple or 3 bottles.