FLAVOUR MATCHING TRIALS UNDER WAY FOR BRAKSPEAR BITTER

Wychwood’s head brewer, Jeremy Moss, and his team are well on track to achieve a good flavour match with the new Witney-brewed cask Brakspear Bitter, which should be available in pubs by the end of June.

For the last 16 months, Brakspear’s Bitter has been brewed under contract at Burtonwood in Cheshire, awaiting the building of a new Brakspear brewery in its home county.

Comments Jeremy:

“It is great to be bringing Brakspear’s back to Oxfordshire. I, and many others, have always regarded Brakspear Bitter as one of Britain’s national treasures, a defining style with as much subtlety and finesse as the greatest wine of Bordeaux. My task, with Peter Scholey, Brakspear’s former head brewer, will be to reproduce the floral hop and crisp, refreshing flavour, which drinkers expect of this distinctively bitter 3.4% abv Thames Valley beer. We are well on our way.”