Worthington White Shield: Dating back to 1829 and changing brewers several times since then, White Shield is now owned by Coors, though brewed at the mostly autonomous Museum Brewing Company. This is the genuine Burton Pale Ale. When Bass took over the Worthington brewery in 1927 they began to filter and pasteurise their own Bass Pale Ale, but kept this going as an example of the real thing. Still bottle-conditioned and still produced (though not in great numbers) in Burton-on-Trent, this is, in the words of legion242: “One of the most amazing things that I have put in my mouth. Positively the best English ale to pass my lips.” It has a legendary status in the UK, being for many years one of the few bottle-conditioned ales available, and barmen would pour it carefully with pride and a practised skill to prevent any sediment from reaching the drinker’s glass. Most who try this rave about it, but billb found a “borderline sickening aroma,” and hey_kevin, while acknowledging it is a “good beer,” just didn’t get on with “the bakers yeast flavor.”