<i>A Mes rate: Gravicask at Fin’s excellent Merton Beer Festival.</i><br />Hazy amber with no head. Aroma of chlorine and whisky casks. Flavour is a little better than I expected after the aroma but it’s still not great. For me it’s a standard matured for too long in a whisky cask. Very, very dry finish with more, all to obvious peaty whisky. Not for me.

Cask conditioned at Merton Summer B.F ’08. Hazed orange brown with white head. This was a frutiy sweet big beer, alcohol nose and fullness but quite sherry like on the close. It’s ok.

<i> <b> Cask, gravity dispense at Merton Summer Beer Festival July 18th and 19th 2008 &#40;had this on the Saturday morning when all was quite and after icing up , this was quite nice for breakfast at 07:30&#41; </b> </i> This poured with a slight haze though this is no surprise as when I tapped this on Wednesday night it literally exploded everywhere it appeared that they may have played rugby with this cask. The beer itself had a very distinctive smokiness to it and maybe it was because I was hungry but I got kippers on the nose, the colour of this beer was light amber/warm gold. There was a warming spirit constantly present.The smokiness also came through in the mouth and I didn’t mind this beer in fact it was fine but I found it lacked the sort of complexity I would have expected for a beer of this strength, it was also quite sweet and a bit chewy. I was informed that this was 5.5% but the cask clearly stated 6.5%.