Cask@GBBF2008. Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is hoppy, grassy, eggy and mildly spicy. Flavour is spices, mild eggyness, wood and some vanilla. Dry fruity and wooden hops in the finish.

A Mes rate: Gravicask up the Junction. I enjoyed every minute of this one. Amazingly aromatic hoppy nose with all the flowery ctric notes you could wish for (and hoppy beers just are not usually my thing so that really is praise indeed) Beautiful crisp golden colour with a light topping of head and lace. Full on hop fest in the mouth and is lovely and dusty. Superb creamy palate for what it is. Glorious hoppy session bitter.

Cask conditioned at Sands, Grange over Sands, Cumbria. Gold colour with white northern head. Dry resinous bitter with touches of caramel. Long hoppy finish, a beer that thinks it is much bigger than it is, not bad at all.

1. Cask Stillage at the Ship & Mitre, Liverpool 20/11/2003 Golden coloured with slightly strong sour fruit flavours. Some dryness in a bitter finish. 2. Cask Handpump at the Beer House, Manchester 06/02/2004 Golden slightly dry pale fruity and wheaty with some crispness and a slightly bitter lasting finish.