Bottled. Hazy ambery orange colour with a small creamy white head. Aroma is yeasty, spicy, some zest, wood and mild honey. Flavour is honey, some wood, mild ripe fruits as well as some toffee and floral and fruity aftertaste.

Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.

This ale poured a cloudy light orange colour with a bright white head. To the nose it had scents of citrus and a stong sharp bitter hopp scent. First taste was nice and smooth with flavours of orange citrus and spice. there is a little smoke flavour to it along with spice. the finish is slightly bitter with fruit juice flavours and the palate isa combination of that and a little bitterness.

Bottle conditioned so I’d left it to stand for a week - poured a sparkling clear amber with a thick white head. Strong aroma of hops and a pleasantly bitter taste.

2007-11-15, 6-3-7-3-14=33
Clear copper color, generous head. Light aroma, with some malt, citrusy hops, sweetish. Medium body, with a quite good malt flavor, turning into a more toffeish feeling while the bitterness raises. Better than expected.

2005-11-01, bottle conditioned, 6-4-7-3-13=33
Cloudy amber color. Fresh aroma, malty, citrus fruits and maybe a light infection. A bit of malt flavor, pretty good hopping, solid, quite astringent at the end, oak astringency. Pleasant.

Bottled. In Norway this beer is called Brakspear Organic Beer, but it seems to be the same, according to the brewer’s website. It pours an orange golden and unclear color, with a nice white head. Floral aroma with a little hopbitterness. The flavour is quite light. Crisp, hopbitter aftertaste. (051001)

500 ml brown bottle, available in Norway (ICA Maxi). Label layout is different and reads "Brakspear Bottle Conditioned Organic Beer", but this must be the same beer. ABV is the same, 4.6%. Pours very fizzy with an enormous foamy head. Deep golden / amber colour. Pleasant hoppy aroma (Fuggles, Goldings), hints of toffee and butterscotch. Moderate malty flavour with a well balanced hoppiness, toffee sidenotes. Mouthfeel maybe a bit thin. Bitter finish. Nice. (Has become one of my "go-to" beers.)

(Bottle 50 cl) Beautiful light brown colour and ditto head. A huge, lumpy sediment. Incredibly nice hop-character from the organic Goldings. Unpasteurized with bottle-fermentation making the beer almost explode out of the bottle. 290404

[I had the Brakspear Organic Beer, but according to the brewery, the recipe is the same as for Live Organic, though there are slight variations in the proportion of bittering hops used] An amber beer with a beutiful head. The aroma is sweet with notes of honey - though nothing is used. The flavor is extremely hoppy with notes of honey and malt. A lovely fresh beer.

Golden-orange with some haze. Lemon, marmalade, seabreezy malts on the nose. Light malt palate, a little mushroomy with some of that lemony note and a tiny bit off bitterness. But otherwise a fairly dull palate after a decent aroma.
Earlier rating 9/22/02: Bright orange; slight berry aroma, with leafy hops. The palate is quite yeasty, with husky malt flavours like the taste of spent grains (with crystal malt showing prominently). Very fresh tasting. Sharp bitterness throughout turns slightly astringent as it gets yeastier towards the finish. 7-4-7-3-14=3.5
Earlier Rating: 1/28/2002 Total Score: 3.9
Bright copper, no head; striking English hop nose w/ biscuity malt, peaches, earthy - kind of rustic aroma. Smooth palate, wonderfully extracted malts glide over the tongue. Peaches, sugared pears, growing into sweeter malts and then finishing just dry enough to make it work. A subtle, well-structured ale that shows what English brewing can do.