1823 Historic Burton Export IPA

Allsopp’s Triumph

The Chairman of the East India Company, Campbell Marjoribanks was angry with the Bow Brewery’s new attitude. They had gone back on a 70-year-old agreement and raised their prices, trying to cut out the East India Company captains.

Chairman Marjoribanks met Samuel Allsopp, a brewery owner from Burton-Upon-Trent, at a dinner party and challenged him to replicate the Hodgson IPA. Allsopp not only replicated it, but improved it. Burton's mineral-rich water, which enhanced the flavor and consistency of his ales, was ideal for brewing IPA. The East India Company supported Allsopp’s and soon he took over the Bow Brewery’s market and helped force them out of business.

Samuel Allsopp was not born into one of Britain’s great brewing dynasties. But he would found one. The son of a small Midlands brewer, he inherited a modest operation in Burton-upon-Trent, a town better known at the time for dark ales than pale ones. But Allsopp possessed both curiosity and ambition. His brewery would grow from producing a few thousand barrels of ale per year to a quarter million barrels. Burton became synonymous with world-class brewing and the local brewing scene exploded. IPA transformed into a global product, riding the wave of the British Imperial Century.

Our 1823 Historic Burton IPA is the very same as our 1754 Historic London IPA, but made with Burton-Upon-Trent water chemistry. The higher suflates in Burton water make this beer dryier and more bitter.

Availability: Seasonal

Release date: Annually in late September or early October.

First produced: 2024

Alc/vol. 7.3%