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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 I have missed anything please add your comments below. Basically you use the same process to stillage vertically as you would with a container lying...
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Vertical Stillage On a recent call-out, one of our contributing Technicians was chatting to a landlord over a bacon butty when the subject of cask beer came up. The landlord said that he would love to sell cask beer but that he didn’t have the space in his cellar for all the stillages. However...
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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 or real ale, whatever you want to call it. If I visit a pub or bar and there is some on the bar I will...
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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 to polarize most drinkers. From a technical point of view and speaking as a technician of 40 years standing, I see the advantage of supplying...
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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 more imports arriving every day. Why do we dispense beer so cold?….. To hide the bland taste. So it comes as a welcome relief when...
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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 pulled off at the start of a new session, beer pulled off during cleaning or beer run off when a new cask had been broached...
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As they say “where there is a will, there is a way.” With cask beer seemingly the only sector of the beer market that is growing, it makes sense that more retailers will want to sell this product and grab a share of the market. What I suspect is stopping more cask ale being...
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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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