Equipment

Something you will be able to tell your Grand Children……. “I remember the Pods”. No I don’t mean the escape pods from Star Trek or the ipod. I refer to the object that sends shudders down the backs of Landlords and sends bar staff scurrying for mops and buckets. Away from the prying eyes...
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Just thought it might be a good idea to start off a  tips and tricks post. Add comments at the bottom to add your own. Or email us it or use the forum. Do not keep it to yourself share it. I think the simple ones are the best. Do you have a sticky...
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Next to keeping your beer lines in good clean condition, glass-washer cleanliness is the next most important. One of the most neglected pieces of kit in any pub or bar is usually the most important one , your glass-washer. To serve beers in top condition it is essential to have an efficient clean machine...
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It’s not very often you call at a pub and they have all the different sizes side by side. Thought I would take a picture. There are a couple of sizes smaller that are missing 20ltr and 30ltr and of course the hogs head (54 gal) for example. But how small or how big...
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Why is my Carling Flat? Are there different Carling glasses? We often get asked these questions. As we don’t work for them it is a difficult one for us to answer. Thankfully A.O. does and he wrote an answer to a question in the forum explaining how it is. There are now 3 types...
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Just a bit of fun. Can you guess the mysterious object below. Something you may find in a pub. Please submit your answers using the comments box below. .
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  As an integral part of dispensing cask beer, cask taps are very important items of equipment. Without using proper well maintained cask taps selling good quality cask beer will be difficult. With every pint of your precious cask beer flowing through these taps they play a key role in ensuring consistent good quality...
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  Auto tilts, or automatic cask tilting stillages, have been around for some years. Designed as a more efficient replacement for traditional forms of stillaging cask beers, the auto tilt has been a tremendous success, bringing new technology to traditional cask beer husbandry. Traditionally pubs always had built in stillaging in their cellars, either...
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