99 Station Street

A bold statement you would think? Burton is indeed only a few miles away from the dead centre of England (a farm near Fenny Drayton), so that’s one part of the claim held up. Another is the nations most popular tipple on a night out, Carling Lager. This is produced at the Coors Brewery on Station Street in Burton and apart from Bass and Marston’s Pedigree, one of our most famous exports.

Although Burton is as far from sea water as is possible in England, it is only a few hundred yards from the water that started the tradition of brewing in the town. No, not the river Trent, but deep welled water, with high level of gypsum. To create the same flavour of beer anywhere else, the water needs to be “Burtonised”, by addition of sulphates which bring out the flavour of the hops used for bitter.