Burton-upon-Trent

Burton -upon -Trent is a city on the River Trent in the east of the county of Staffordshire in England. The city has 60,500 inhabitants (2001) and is the administrative headquarters of the district of East Staffordshire.

History

Burton -upon -Trent arose from a settlement around the monastery of St. Modwin. However, the city was known for its breweries, which arose due to the good quality of the local water. Today Burton is the location of several breweries. A byproduct of these breweries, both figuratively and literally, a factory, in the Marmite, a spread made from brewer's yeast, is made. This in turn led to the production of Bovril, a salty yeast extract. Together with the breweries these factories of the area can provide a distinctive odor.

From 1712 was the river Trent from Hull, the North Sea port, to Burton navigable. The beer was shipped on river boats to Hull and exported from there, for example, the Baltic States, but also distributed with coastal vessels on domestic markets in London or Edinburgh. Ultimately, the beer from Burton -upon -Trent found buyers all over the British Empire.

With the opening of the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1777 the transport was further simplified and extended this but joined Liverpool on the west with Hull on the north east coast of England.

The comparatively slow water transport did not harm the quality of the beer, the transport costs were moderate, because the owners like to used the heavy oak barrels of beer as ballast means in the lowest storage compartments below the waterline of the ship. This was beneficial because of therefore consistently cool temperature for the transported beer.

The transport on the Trent and Mersey canal but also had its pitfalls: So were the Narrowboats, the small, getreidelten of horses barges with a payload of just 30 tons, often in the winter fest when the channel partly on weeks was frozen.

After about 60 years, then took over from 1839, faster and more reliable railway, the canal boats as the main means of transportation from.

As a ship that had invited India Pale Ale ( a specially brewed for the long journey to India beer), fell and barrels of this beer were washed, first changed the local beer taste. At the same time began a transformation of the English beer taste. Previously, the Englishman drank mainly Stout ( best known brand: Guinness ) and Porter - dark, through the use of roasted barley flavorful beers. With the development of the Pale Ale Bitter was this highly hopped lager, which was easier to store and transport, the preferred beer.

Burton dominated trade in this type of beer; To the best of times came a quarter of the UK beer drunk out of town. In 1880 there were more than 30 breweries, but through mergers and sales, the number dropped in 1980 to three. Today there are only an independent brewery Burton ( Burton Bridge ). The managed pub company Punch Taverns has its headquarters in the city. In 1990, the first charge of the Poundland chain in the city.

The notoriety Burton for his beer led to the euphemistic slogan Gone for a burton, if someone had died.

Sons and daughters of the town

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