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The Burton Brewery Company was one of the largest brewers in Burton upon Trent, England in the 19th century. The company was founded in 1842 by Henry and Thomas Wilders, who came from a family of tanners. They built their brewery on their leather-working premises in Burton High Street.
Trent Brewery, the former Everards Brewery in Anglesey Road, Burton. Burton upon Trent has a long history of brewing, at one time exporting beer throughout the world and accounting for a quarter of UK beer production; emulation of Burton water in brewing is called Burtonisation. Much of the town was given over to the industry throughout the ...
Bass Brewery (/ ˈ b æ s /) was founded in 1777 by William Bass in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England. [2] The main brand was Bass Pale Ale , once the highest-selling beer in the UK . [ 3 ] By 1877, Bass had become the largest brewery in the world, with an annual output of one million barrels. [ 4 ]
The brewery was founded in 1751 as Clay's Brewery by Joseph Clay I (1726-1800), [1] who came originally from Merrybower, near Derby. Some time before Joseph Clay I died in 1800, his son Joseph II (1756-1824) took over the business, and was described in The "British Directory" of 1791 as one of the famous "nine common brewers of Burton-on-Trent."
Half of all the company's beer is bottled. [10] Marston's Pedigree is brewed in Burton-upon-Trent: it is a 4.3% ABV bitter. [11] Introduced in 1952, it is Marston's flagship brand, selling 150,000 hectolitres in 2010. [11] It was the only beer to use the oak Burton Union System so that it was fermented in wood; the ingredients are mineral ...
After Samuel's death in 1838, his sons Charles and Henry continued the brewery as Allsopp & Sons. In 1859, they built a new brewery near the railway station, and added a prestigious office block in 1864. By 1861, Allsopp's was the second-largest brewery after Bass. Henry Allsopp retired in 1882 and his son Samuel Charles Allsopp took over.
Molson Coors in Burton upon Trent, where Carling is brewed in the United Kingdom Carling became the UK's most popular beer brand (by volume sold) in the early 1980s. [ citation needed ] UK sales in 1999 were one billion pints, in 2007, 2.3 billion pints (over six billion worldwide), in 2009, 4.1 billion pints (11.6 billion pints worldwide), in ...
Coors Brewers Limited, later known as Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Limited, is the UK arm of Molson Coors Beverage Company. Its headquarters is in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. The company originates from Bass Brewers Limited. The company has gone through many name changes and mergers. [1]