Waitrose Organic Ale
Broughton Ales Ltd

An organic ale brewed for the UK supermarket chain Waitrose. It comes in a brown, 500ml bottle, with a quite primitive/simplistic-designed beer label, featuring "The Green Man" as a symbol of organically grown ingredients.
BBE AUG 06

A: served in a goblet, it pours a clear and bright orangey-golden hued nectar, with a 1cm thick white pillowy head with good retention, and the lacing is nice and tight too. Initial lively carbonation quickly settles to gentle streams of fizz.
S: almost honeyish sweet maltiness upfront, mixed with a floral syrupy kind of aroma quite unusual; after swirling a deeper, flowery and Goldings-like hop aroma prevails to pair with the maltiness. But overall the nose is still too sweet and unbalanced, not to my liking any way.
T: a sharp-textured, semi-sweet maltiness hits the palate upfront, quickly followed by a grassy and slightly herbal bitterness brought about by the hops. The bitterness intensifies featuring more herbal hints, but the texture and flavour both thin out fast in the dryish aftertaste not unlike that of a thin-bodied rice lager.
M&D: thin-bodied and moderate-flavoured ale, it's only rescued by the considerable length of bitterness and a dryish finishing touch. But the overall mouthfeel is unbalanced, with simply too much fizz against a generally thin texture. Not a good example of organic beer IMO, and definitely incapable of converting people to organic products, at least beer-wise.