Keg at the brewery, Lye. Pours murky dull orange with a small head. Aroma is toast and orange squash. Taste has orange, caramel and toast.

Ever since merry old England adopted the American craft beer movement, the country has produced an immeasurable string of IPAs, but also APAs; this is one from a young microbrewery in Bristol, from a 50 cl bottle in sufficiently fresh condition, many thanks for this one again Jeremy! Papery lacing, yellow-tinged egg-white, moussy and stable head over a pale orangey deep golden beer, hazy with visible fizz. Aroma of fresh orange juice, herb cheese, lemon zest, cheese crackers, bitter gentian root, stewed chicory leaves or indeed 'witlof', tonic water, green olives, green tea. Cleanishly fruity onset, some vague pineapple and pear sweetness but in a greenish, 'unripe' way, hard nectarine hint even but all remaining very subtle, very light sourish edge, medium to fairly strong carbonation with explicit minerally side flavours, supple and bit oily, resiny mouthfeel. Cracker-, dry cookie- and bread crust-like maltiness, supporting a long, aromatically hoppy finish, grapefruity, a tad piney and 'bitterly' floral with lots of peppery notes, but also depositing a strong, long-lasting, oily, rooty, tonic water-ish bitterness on the root of the tongue, which eventually hardly allows any of the malt juiciness to pierce through. Still 'noble', herbal and floral like your old school English bitter, but very strongly and explicitly amped-up with a generous dosis of New World hops, adding a load of citrus peel- and pine-like flavours - and thus fully qualifying as an APA, or, with this degree of hop bitterness, even an IPA. Very nice, quenching, honest and uncompromizing - a treat to the hophead in me.

Fra gravicask på The 25th Maltings Festival Newton Abbot 27 Apr 17. Gylden. Filmskum. Lett fruktaroma. Smaken tørket frukt. Tørr ettersmak.

Gravicask at The 25th Tuckers Maltings Beer Festival. Clear warm golden body, disappearing white head. Fresh fruit hoppy nose. Sappy tropical fruity flavours followed by citrus peels towards the ending. Fine bodied. Smooth mouth feel. Refreshing. (Newton Abbot 27.04.2017).

Cask (gravity) @ 33th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2016, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England. [ As Beat Ales Rockabilly ].Clear medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, fruity malt, sharp, moderate hoppy, citrus, hop oil. Initial flavor is moderate sweet and bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a average duration, hop oil, sharp, raw, dirty, fruity malt, fruity hops. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20161130] 6-3-5-3-10

Cask gravity at Reading BF 2017. Hazy gold lasting white head. Good aroma good condition. Hops have nettle and a certain bitterness. Good citrus. I liked it. A littleraw and dirty.

Cask-conditioned at the Gryphon, Bristol 30/6/2016. Pale gold in colour, with a decent, white, head. Aroma of tropical fruits, sweetish malts and some citrus hops. Flavour had plenty more fruit, biscuity malts and a touch of sweetness before a dry finish. Good.