Marston's Brewery
Marston's has brewed in Burton upon Trent since 1834, when John Marston started at the Horninglow Brewery; in 1898 the business moved to the Albion Brewery on Shobnall Road. The town's well water, which filters through a thick layer of gypsum, gives the beers their crisp bitterness. The main ale, Pedigree, was long fermented in the historic Burton Union system; in January 2024 the company announced it would retire the last four sets. The brewing business entered a joint venture with Carlsberg in 2020, has been wholly owned by the Danish group since 2024 and trades today as Carlsberg Britvic.
Beers by Marston's Brewery
18 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Marston's Brewery brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 18 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Pedigree
Their beers place in the Top 63% of the catalogue on average, across 17 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Marston's Brewery
Marston's has brewed in Burton upon Trent since 1834, when John Marston started at the Horninglow Brewery; in 1898 the business moved to the Albion Brewery on Shobnall Road. The town's well water, which filters through a thick layer of gypsum, gives the beers their crisp bitterness. The main ale, Pedigree, was long fermented in the historic Burton Union system; in January 2024 the company announced it would retire the last four sets. The brewing business entered a joint venture with Carlsberg in 2020, has been wholly owned by the Danish group since 2024 and trades today as Carlsberg Britvic.
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