Cask ale

JohnQ · February 02, 2012, 11:20:26 AM

Kids, sheesh.
JQ

Chris Craig · February 02, 2012, 09:13:50 PM

Good beer. Nice to see you all out. We'll have to do that more often.

Ian Grant · February 03, 2012, 05:06:09 AM

Ya I had a great time and it ended up being productive.

Jake · February 03, 2012, 11:18:30 AM

Wish I coulda been there. What was the beer like? Never had a cask ale.

Richard · February 03, 2012, 11:35:35 AM

yeah good times had by all, although next time I'll stroll by at 5 rather than 4 - I didn't exactly return to productive work when I got home

Ian Grant · February 03, 2012, 12:04:10 PM

I had 3 glasses and thought it was real good. Much better than the original.

Jake · February 03, 2012, 12:51:06 PM

So the casks ... are they like oak casks or what? Dont know a whole lot about this obviously ...

Ian Grant · February 03, 2012, 01:33:02 PM

Nope just a keg but they add the sugar to the keg to carb it. Pretty much the same as bottling homebrew.

Chris Craig · February 03, 2012, 02:08:41 PM

The carbonation is usually fairly low too. The idea is that each pub could have the same beer, but since they pump air from the room into the cask to draw beer, each pub's cask as a slightly different flavour.

Richard · February 06, 2012, 07:03:15 PM

For the record, when I pulled over my Darkest Hour into a keg after the meeting on Sunday, it had the same sulphurous note on the nose that I found in the Yippee cask ale. It's gone after a couple of days of (forced) carbonation. Kyle confirmed the DMS, so I'm not nuts