Cask handpull, The Crown , Nuneaton. Almost pitch with tan suds and ruby edges. Roast and biscuit sniffs. NICE musty hopcone balance, ganja, shrubby continental hints, complete rabbit pellets, wholemeal. Some subtle complexity here. Bourbon biscuit, Cocoa Pops milk, dark shrivelled fruit, pretty sturdy roast for a 4% mild. Bourbon biscuit with a dab of butter afters. Excellent musty hop, choc and roast balance. Quite a sexy mild.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 08. First beer of the Saturday session and boy did I feel rough. Not as bad as Phil_l, but even still, the first beer was a bit of a struggle. Very dark brown. Very mild. Bit of roasted malt. A little grainy but fine overall.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at the White Horse in Hedgerley.
Black with a rim of tan bubbles. Very fruity with some nice chocolate malt and some good coffee in the finish. A solid drinkable mild.

Cask, Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Dark brown, light tan head. Metalic malt, vague light roast, but in sort of a blood-reminiscent way. Overall effect: water pumped out of an iron hand-pump well, brewed as very weak coffee.

Cask Handpump at the Bhurtpore Inn, Aston 25/03/2007 Some fruit aroma. Dark red coloured smooth on the palate and fruity. Dry lasting slightly roasted finish.