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Worthington White Shield

Worthington White Shield was my favourite bottled beer. I never even saw the Green Shield, but I believe there was one.

I think that Worthington White Shield is being made again, possibly under the aegis of the giant COORS Corporation. But I haven't seen it. I haven't seen a drop of it for at least twenty years.

I used to be very good at pouring it, I believe the new bottles have a special sediment separator in the neck so one does not have to be so careful, but I wouldn't have needed such high tech.

The beauty of the drink was that sometimes I WANTED to have the sediment in the glass. A cloudy Worthington White Shield was a very good pick-me-up after a heavy session the night before.

I hope it reappears back on pub shelves soon.

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Offramp
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Yes, Coors have it now.

I started drinking it in something like 1990 when Guinness stopped doing bottle conditioned Guinness and my local Bass pub in Grimsby replaced it with Whiteshield.

Even the Kings and Barnes version was mostly ok.

But last time I had one of the "new" ones about 5 years ago I was very disappointed - though I've heard recently that they've got one of the old brewers back so I may give it a go ... though I don't hold out much hope.

You can/could even get it in cask now - a silly idea which was tried at the Bass Museum Octoberfest in Burton many many years ago and was decided wasn't upto what the bottle version was.

I regulary see Heiniken Wholesale adverting it in the trade press as part of their available supply range.

I always drank it with sediment - do so with most bottle conditioned beers - or drank two thirds clear and then added the sediment for the remainder.

I still have an original 275ml Bass Whiteshield - but it won't be drinkable now.

Reply to
Gareth Babb

You will probably find three things

i) your taste in beer has changed ii) it is no longer brewed to the same recipe and now uses a different yeast or hop iii) Some fondly remembered beers of the past were in truth not that good - but better than a lot of the mass brewed blandness

Reply to
alan_m

I shall find out very soon. This morning I had a dozen bottles delivered from Tesco! They were two quid each for 500ml. I might have one tonight.

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Offramp

from Tesco! They were two quid each for 500ml. I might have one tonight.

I've got a bottle in the cupboard, acquired a couple of years ago at a beer festival and not yet drunk. It claims to be "Best Before 10 Oct 15", but I have always treated BB dates on beers with great scepticism. White Shield was always famous for tasting much better /after/ its BB date.

It has been brewed in various places in the course of the last 25 years, an d moving from brewery to brewery didn't do anything for quality or consiste ncy. I remember a batch in the 1990s, brewed IIRC at the old Stones place. The yeast floated about in the bottles like great clumps of wallpaper paste . Very odd.

For the record, it's currently owned and brewed by Molson Coors. In Burton, as it should be.

Reply to
Joyce Whitchurch

Fairly regular in Tesco's round here (east Hampshire/West Sussex) was in Tesco's Chichester this morning and they had a shelf full..

Reply to
Steve H.

You were right. The beer is nothing special.

Reply to
Offramp

Just had one - IAWTP just a little bit of flavour toward the bottom.

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Kerr Mudd-John

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