DEFIANT SURVIVOR
BOTTLE CONDITIONED INDIA PALE ALE (IPA) 5.6% ABV
BREWED IN BURTON UPON TRENT, ENGLAND.
Defiant survivor of 1820s IPA tradition, when only the strongest, most flavoursome beers endured the arduous voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India, White Shield is the bottled live beer that matures with age.
Anything but 'pale', White Shield owes its alluring bronze sparkle to pioneering masters who fired home grown malted barley over coke ovens to create lighter beers than the dark porters of the day.
Like fine cask beer, bottle conditioned White Shield boasts a small amount of William Worthington's feisty dual yeast, and will mature for at least 3 years after shipping from the nation's oldest micro-brewery in Burton upon Trent.
To appreciate a sparkling clear glass, the connoisseur pours with steady hand, leaving the precious last drops in the bottle
WIDESPREAD ACCLAIM...
- India Pale Ale gained UK renown in the late 1820s, after a shipment bound for India was wrecked off the coast of Liverpool, and duly 'salvaged' to widespread public acclaim
- William Worthington's White Shield dates back to 1829, 85 years after the first William Worthington moved to Burton upon Trent, in 1744
- The White Shield Brewery in Burton upon Trent is believed to be Britain's oldest microbrewery.
- William Worthington's White Shield is the 2006 'Champion Bottled Conditioned Beer of Britain' (2006 Great British Beer Festival)
- White Shield's Head Brewer, Steve Wellington, was the Guild of British Beer Writers Brewer of the Year in 2004