Vintage Roots Organic Beer
Hepworth & Co. (Brewers) Ltd.

Contract brewed for and labeled under a British Organic Wine specialist company, Vintage Roots. Bottle-conditioned, BB 21/04/06. Served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.

A: lightly cloudy, pale amber hue; effervescent, off-white thick foamy beer head slowly settles down and leaves uneven sheets of lacing; the body is quite fizzy and lively.
S: sweetish/candyish malts backed with strong fruit-esters and perfumy yeasty notes, like orange blossoms+dates+preserved passion-fruits+honey, on top of a lightly resinous touch slowly ascending from the hoppyness. Overall pretty rich, and unlike a traditional English ale as the label states; it's rather like a Belgian Blond with more hop entry~~
T: at first juicy pale malts smoothly land on the palate, turning bready, chewy but not sweet; a flow of delicious, lightly fruity hops and a touch of mineral flavour closely follow, leaving an intensifying, root-vegetable-like sweet hoppy taste plus a lovely edge of Chinese green-bean soup lingering in the long, mildly tea-ish bitter finish.
M&D: medium-bodied and full-flavoured malty bitter, the texture benefits a lot from the successful bottle-conditioning, resulting in a finely fizzy palate to complement the rich flavour profile. The beer is said to be brewed to an "original Brakspear recipe". Compared with some Brakspear beers now brewed by Refresh UK, this interpretation by Hepworth no doubt has the upper hand IMHO. A quite balanced, good quality bottled beer, worth the money.