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.

Serving Ritual
The trick, painful as it is, is to leave the precious last drops of White Shield with the conditioning yeast sediment in the bottom of the bottle... First, prepare to pour by bringing bottle and glass almost horizontal, to eye level. Then, without resting the bottle on the rim of the glass, pour the White Shield slowly along the glass, avoiding any violent movement which might disturb the famous yeast, and gradually straighten the glass as it fills. Gently does it.