Govinda Organic Plumage Archer Edition is one of a quartet of 2018 Great Taste^® award winning beers from The Cheshire Brewhouse.

This 3-star Great Taste award-winning Heritage IPA: Organic Plumage Archer Edition, is one of only a handful of beers made in the UK using the certified “Heritage”, Organic Plumage Archer, Malt.

We used this organically grown heritage variety Barley, originally g¹rown between 1905 to sometime in the 1950’s, and hopped with lots of Ernest, Early Keyworth & Jester. The result is an award-winning combination of tropical fruit aromas, citrus, a highly complex bitterness with lots of peaches, pears and honey with peppery spice.

Govinda is faithfully brewed to a traditional, heritage Burton-Upon-Trent IPA recipe, from the early 1800’s.

Govinda pays homage to the highly-hopped pale ales, shipped to India to slake the thirst of the English Raj.

TASTING NOTES

Great Taste® Judges said:

“An intense bitterness but still smooth, big flavoured but balanced, rounded and delicious. When you go back a second and third time and find new flavours like citrus, it makes you remember why they brewed IPAs in the first place: to withstand a sea crossing. In Calcutta they used to say ‘it has ripened.’
Great clarity and carbonation. We loved the nose – peaches and cream – which carried through to the palate. We also loved the subtle complex flavours of red apple, peach and honey, and the huge bitter finish.”