Welcome to Inn Doctor the UK's no1 Pub Cellar Service and Beer Dispense Guide. Compiled by Brewery trained Technicians, our mission is to provide you with information that can help you troubleshoot your beer dispense problem quickly and easily. Or how to look after your cask ales. Inn Doctor covers all aspects of beer care and good pub cellar management and is a ‘must have tool’ for the modern Licensee
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Beer Dispense Guide
Mackeson
One of the most underrated British beers there is, Mackeson. I bet readers of a certain age will well remember the very old TV advertisement extolling the virtues of...
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Vertical Stillaging Cask Ales
We haven’t really covered vertical extraction on here in any great detail yet. Perhaps if we go through a few pointers please feel free to add anything or if...
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Exchange your unwanted branded glassware
Inn Doctor is now giving you a platform to exchange all your unwanted, branded glassware. Licensees often find themselves in a position of having redundant collections of glasses, which...
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Real Ale and Micro Breweries
Beer has been brewed in this country for hundreds of years and will go on so, even though it has been messed up by the big boys with still...
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Filtering back cask beer
For a great many years part of the tradition of cask ale husbandry has been the filtering back of beer in to the cask from which it came. Ale...
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Glasswashers are killing the beer trade
In the past 3 months I have conducted thorough glasswasher tests in 25 pubs. In 23 of those pubs the glasswashers were not ‘fit for purpose’. Only 2 pubs used machines...
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Welcome beer geeks
Us fellow geeks at Inn Doctor have become aware that we are having increased numbers of readers from around the world. Given that beer is the universal drink around the...
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World Cup Check List
With the World Cup about to kick off there is great potential to make some good profit for our pub businesses. Despite Tesco and Asda bashing out canned beer...
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CAMRA has heard “the call of the Mild”
Well it is nice to know someone is reading these pages. CAMRA has launched its’ Mild in May campaign to help promote cask mild beer. We heartily endorse this...
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Cask beer aspirators, my opinion!
Wrote this before I realised it had already been covered,“Cask breather or Aspirator ” but never mind. The debate about using co2 as a top pressure on cask ale seems...
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Beer Cellar Refrigeration
Beer cellar refrigeration is an important part of your beer dispensing system. In an ideal world all beer cellars would have cellar cooling, providing as it does a...
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Beer Gas the Cellar and Colour Coding
Is it possible to use the wrong gas in your cellar? No you say there are different fittings for Co2 and mixed gasses. But if you didn’t know already...
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Cask Ale, is it worth the money?
Well I ask this question, because not for the first time, I have come unstuck whilst having a pint of local brew. First and foremost I enjoy cask beer...
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The things you find in beer cellars
I wish I was a tidy person. I do so envy those people who are naturally organized and neat. My personal philosophy on keeping things in order revolves around...
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Save beer, save profit
Some old habits die hard as they say. Since writing the odd article for Inn Doctor, odd perhaps being a good word to describe my humble offerings, I have...
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Yeast trap on the bar
You know the old saying,”you are never to old to learn”well dear reader that certainly applies to me. The other day whilst doing a beer line clean and waiting...
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Cleaning cask ale beer lines
The cleaning of all beer lines is of utmost importance to the beer retailer. Regular beer line cleaning keeps your beer on top form and your profits in good...
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How to clean keg beer lines
The most important, yet one of the most hated jobs for Landlords or Landladies alike is beer line cleaning. Probably because it takes up, what most publicans have little...
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