FWIW, I have never seen White Sheild in Texas. That’s 35 years. 
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For some reason, Texas sticks in my mind as being the site of WWS’s US importer- maybe "Noble Union"? (Seems to me I wrote them and asked where I could get more WWS and/or what NJ distributor(s) they dealt with.) Did they import King & Barnes at the time, maybe?
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Yeah, Noble Union is here.
I do rememeber bumping into some K&B Xmas beer in a random store in Waco Texas of all places a few years ago. They were VERY old bottles. So, I guess they could have had WWS here at one time or another. I just have never seen it.
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Beer writer Pete Brown’s got a blog entry today about this thread...
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And I’ve posted a comment there.
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Nice one chris!
The replys seem to be of big bellied over opinionated CAMRA members anyway. And cant help but notice that the writer himself, as you pointed out, was going on one claim by gazza that the beer wasnt so hot.
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I think Pete has chosen the wrong targets for his ire, but I agree with his broader point.
I certainly wouldn’t say that the crowd of UK-based Ratebeer users are closed-minded or dogmatic. It seems to me that you lot will drink anything!  
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I won’t drink Magners cider or Spitfire Smooth, but yes, more or less I will drink anything as long as it hasn’t been aged in a Islay cask whisky barrel.
Last time I had White Shield it was very nice, but I would rather have the P2 stout if it could be brewed again.
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What’s wrong with the Islay cask whisky barrels, then, Ian?
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Ah, I bet Ian’s never had the Thornbridge St Petersburg Islay Reserve, though. I have. Nah nah nee nah nahh 
P2 is (according to the Museum website) currently available at the Museum bar. Often is at this time of year, and often puts an appearance in at the Burton Winter BF (which this year is at the end of March and thus a Spring BF). If you want lashings of great beers - not ticks, just great beers - and the best pork scratchings in England (from Tony the Butcher, Burton Market) then Burton’s the place to be.
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