Home Grown
Renegade Brewery

L- Straw coloured, dazzling clear in an unusually bright kind of way. However the white head was very short-lived, 3 seconds and gone, just some minor rising CO2. Not a glass issue either, this is my regular tippler...
S- Very mild, just some hints of grain.
T- I coined a word for the front of this kind of taste, 'carbonic'. It's not that common, but when found is likely to be in hipsterish brews. It is where the taste is entirely dominated by the flavour of dissolved CO2. Ie just like plain soda water; harsh and dry. I do get a sense of something vaguely organic beyond that, but so minor it's hard to pin down and suggest a name for. In the finish I get quite prominent dry hops.
F- Austere, mono-dimensional.
O- Not one for me, for sure. What an unusual recipe, the flavour spectrum seems so narrow, there was no start-finish journey of note, malts are really imperceptible. Might work on a summers day sat on a 40C dive boat in the Red Sea, as a thirst slaker. This is so pared back that if I was handed this and asked to ID the style of beer I'd have two choices of answer a) haha it isn't beer and you're taking the P b) Is this some hair-shirt self-punishment pitched at hipsters?
Remarkably enough I bought this in un-hipsterish Waitrose. 500ml bottle BBE 03/2026

This beer is labelled as a collaboration with Hogs Back Brewery. Contains barley and wheat.

Bottle. A collaboration with Hogs Back. HB supply the hops and R supply the barley.
Clear gold with rising effervescence. Very little head.
A fresh hoppy smell. Some mown grass with hints of gooseberries with a touch of caramel.
A nicely balanced flavour of digestive biscuit malt and the hops.
A soft yet noticeable carbonation. Light body.
I like the idea. The result is pretty good too.