Hot air balloons have a limited life as their fabric becomes porous to hot air and most are capable of being inflated for about 400 hours. This example was built in 1989 and its certificate of airworthiness expired in 1997. It is in the shape of a hop and advertises a low alcohol beer with a registration of G-MALT another constituent of beer, though as I recall the product was a stranger to both ! A tethered flight at the British Balloon Museum and Library inflation day in Cambridgeshire.