Coors Brewers Limited, later known as Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Limited is the UK arm of

Molson Coors Beverage Company The Molson Coors Beverage Company is an American-Canadian multinational drink and brewing company incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law and headquartered in Golden, Colorado and Montreal, Quebec. Molson Coors was formed in 2005 t ...

. Its headquarters is in

Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. In United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011, it had a ...

, Staffordshire. The company originates from Bass Brewers Limited. The company has gone through many name changes and mergers.

History

The company originates from Bass Brewers Limited founded in 1777. In 1926 Bass Brewery merged with William Worthingtons. The company was purchased in 2000 by

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and then forced to change its name due to the purchase by Coors in 2002, as

kept the name Bass. In 2009 following the merger between Molson and Coors in 2006, Coors Brewers Limited changed its name to Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK) Ltd. The operations in England are now part of Molson Coors Europe.

Brands

The Company has several brands under its belt. Prominently it owns the sole contract to produce Carling in the UK; it also produces namely Coors and

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. Brands Include: *Aspall Cyder *Blue Moon *Caffreys *Carling *Carling Premier *Carling Cider *Cobra *Coors *Franciscan Well *Hop Stuff *Madri Excepcional (collaboration with La Sagra brewery) *Miller Genuine Draft *Mitchells and Butlers Brew XI *Mitchells and Butlers Mild *Molson Canadian *Pravha *Staropramen *Stones Bitter *Sharp's *Three Fold Hard Seltzer *Worthington Bitter *Worthington E *Worthington White Shield The company imports / distributes: *Bavaria *Bavaria 0.0 *Bodega Bay Hard Seltzer *Rekorderlig Cider

Sites

The UK arm of the company has three main sites: Burton Brewery containing an additional

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facility (formerly AllBrew's Maltings), which is currently out of action and

Tadcaster Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, east of the Great North Road, north-east of Leeds, and south-west of York. Its historical importance from Roman times onward was largely as the ...

Brewery. Burton is the largest site followed by Tadcaster. Shobnall Maltings provides the

malt Malt is germinated cereal grain that has been dried in a process known as " malting". The grain is made to germinate by soaking in water and is then halted from germinating further by drying with hot air. Malted grain is used to make beer, wh ...

for all their UK sites and many other breweries in the UK. Also Burton Brewery houses the National Brewery Centre (formerly Coors Visitor Centre); within the museum complex is the White Shield Brewery, this brews all special and limited run beers and also is the sole production site for

Worthington White Shield Worthington's White Shield (5.6% ABV) is an India pale ale (IPA) available principally in bottle conditioned form. White Shield was first brewed by the Worthington Brewery in Burton upon Trent in 1829, primarily for export to the British Empir ...

. The company has the capacity to turn the

barley Barley (''Hordeum vulgare''), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 10,000 years ago. Globally 70% of barley pr ...

into malt, and brew, bottle, can, keg and cask beer. The Company currently the 5th largest brewer in the world with a 20% market share has recently bought out the majority share in Cobra, and is running contracts for

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and

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Internet Operations

Coors Brewers offer their customers the option of ordering online through two websites
barbox.com
an
coorsdirect.com
barbox.com was formerly owned by Coors Brewers in a partnership with

before being acquired by iTradeNetwork. iTradeNetwork now provide the online ordering facilities for Molson Coors through barbox.com and coorsdirect.com

References

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External links

Molson Coors Brewing Company (UK)
Breweries in England Companies based in Burton upon Trent Molson Coors Beverage Company