Brewery: Brakspear
Origin: Witney, England
ABV: 4.6%
Version: 500ml bottle

Brakspear are certainly drawing attention to the organic nature of this beer, with the hops and barley grown organically. I’ll admit this is never a particular selling point for me (it’s beer, that’s usually enough); I’ll not necessarily choose organic produce over non-organic just on priniciple, but quite often it does indeed taste better. I’ve had some very pleasant and drinkable organic beers and I’ve had some nondescript ones. Unfortunately, much like my experience of their EPA, this falls into the latter category.

Things get off to a promising start with a lovely golden colour with a pleasant and subtle fresh aroma. Then the disappointment sets in as the taste doesn’t follow through. Other than a slight bitter bite I was hard pushed to detect much else in the flavour, with a corresponding lack of aftertaste. It could all be down to the quality of the harvest used to make the batch this bottle came from, but I doubt I’ll be trying it again to find out.