Message in bottle to the Eurocrats

May 11 2005 By Guy Basnett, The Journal

On the protected list

Newcastle Brown Ale is one of 27 British-made items of food and drink given Protected Designation of Origin under EU law.

The list does not include products which are considered to have become generic, such as Yorkshire Pudding, Eccles cakes and Chelsea buns.

The items are:
Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese,
Bonchester cheese,
Buxton Blue,
Dorset Blue,
Dovedale,
Exmoor Blue,
Single Gloucester,
Swaledale cheese and Swaledale ewe's cheese,
Teviotdale cheese,
Westcountry farmhouse Cheddar cheese,
White Stilton,
Blue Stilton,
Jersey Royal potatoes,
Orkney beef and lamb,
Scotch beef and lamb,
Shetland lamb,
Welsh beef and lamb,
Arbroath smokies,
Scottish farmed salmon,
Whitstable oysters,
Kentish ale and Kentish strong ale,
Newcastle Brown Ale,
Rutland bitter,
Cornish clotted cream,
Gloucestershire cider/perry,
Herefordshire cider/perry,
Worcestershire cider/perry.