21 Facts About Worthington Brewery

The best known Worthington Brewery beers are its Creamflow nitrokeg bitter and White Shield India Pale Ale.

When William Worthington died in 1800, his brewery was one of the largest outside London.

The beers continued to be brewed elsewhere, and the Worthington Brewery brand has remained prominent up to the present day.

Worthington Brewery brand was purchased from Bass by the American brewing company Coors in 2002, which following a merger became Molson Coors in 2005.

Worthington Brewery brand has had an association with rugby union sponsorship since the latter half of the twentieth century.

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William Worthington Brewery was born at Orton on the Hill in Leicestershire, the fourth child of William Worthington Brewery, yeoman farmer, and his wife, Elizabeth.

In 1760, Worthington purchased the brewery from Smith's successor, Richard Commings, for £320.

Worthington Brewery produced their own India Pale Ale from 1829 onwards.

Worthington Brewery dissolved the Robinson partnership in 1864, in order for his sons to acquire the business.

Worthington Brewery became known as Worthington and Company, the co-partners being: William, with two of his sons, William Henry and Calvert, who were joined two years later by his youngest son, Albert Octavius.

Worthington Brewery pioneered brewing science from 1866 by employing a chemist, Horace Tabberer Brown, who led the world in separation and cultivation of pure yeast strains.

From 1872 the Worthington brewery was the first in the world to systematically use a laboratory in the brewing process.

Worthington Brewery had previously resisted employing a laboratory, for fear that the public would perceive the scientific apparatus as a means of doctoring the beer.

Worthington Brewery was the third largest Burton brewer by 1888, behind Bass and Allsopp, with an annual output of 220,000 barrels per annum.

From 1886, Worthington Brewery began to acquire public houses, which provided a captive market for their product.

Product rationalisation began after the Second World War and although Worthington Brewery occasionally overtook Bass in sales, the decision was taken to prioritise Bass products.

In 1965, the original Worthington brewery was closed, although production of the Worthington beers continued, consisting of White Shield, Green Shield and the draught product, E Worthington E became the main keg bitter offered by Bass from 1967, and it had become a leading bitter brand by the 1970s, boosted by the company's network of 11,000 public houses.

Worthington Brewery E was replaced as Bass' leading keg bitter by Stones Bitter from 1981.

Worthington Brewery regained its position as the leading ale brand for Bass from 1997, predominantly through the Creamflow variant.

The Competition Commission ordered Interbrew to divest itself of a number of its recently acquired brands, and Worthington Brewery was bought by the American brewer Coors, who later became Molson Coors in 2005.

Worthington Brewery's is involved in sponsorship of rugby union and rugby league.