A “modern” update for Brakspear from their previous, conservative label design. Brakspear Oxford Gold is a classic regional beer; safe, reliable and wholly sessionable.
The monoweight line work is elegant, even if a style that has been done to death for the last decade or so. However I doubt that will bother the retired Cotswolds boozehounds and their plump wives. Nice to see some playfulness with the type too, the bowled-out B and dropped crossbars of the As especially.
The bee is a nod to Nicholas Breakspear, the only English Pope and a distant relative of the Brakspear family. Elected as Pope Adrian IV in 1154, his papal seal included a bee. It’s not Mancuanian for once. Hooray.
Likewise the ‘double dropping’ tagline is not a reference to getting pilled up (see previous entry Clarky Cat) but rather the double fermentation process Brakspear use. Get on that one then you boomers.
The monoweight line work is elegant, even if a style that has been done to death for the last decade or so. However I doubt that will bother the retired Cotswolds boozehounds and their plump wives. Nice to see some playfulness with the type too, the bowled-out B and dropped crossbars of the As especially.
The bee is a nod to Nicholas Breakspear, the only English Pope and a distant relative of the Brakspear family. Elected as Pope Adrian IV in 1154, his papal seal included a bee. It’s not Mancuanian for once. Hooray.
Likewise the ‘double dropping’ tagline is not a reference to getting pilled up (see previous entry Clarky Cat) but rather the double fermentation process Brakspear use. Get on that one then you boomers.