[Jim Mac]

After having a cask conditioned Blue Point Hoptical Illusion ale last night at our local beer bar, Mahars ( http://www.itsonlybeer.com ), I found that I had a hard time going back to "regular" tap beer (sipping my wife's Franziskaner). Everything else seemed too cold and too carbonated.

Anyone else have this experience?

 

[Heidi]

Yep, my local brewery, Deschutes, always has a cask conditioned beer on tap. THEY ARE AWESOME

 

[SkaredShtles]

Yep, my local brewery, Deschutes, always has a cask conditioned beer on tap. THEY ARE AWESOME

Something about a good ale coming out of a cask at "cellar temperature" that will mostly ruin your for other beer. And this is NOT a bad thing.

 

[narlus]

Redbones used to have Tremont on cask all the time...over the last few years they just have some casks ales on Mondays, maybe....not a good trend.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Redbones used to have Tremont on cask all the time...over the last few years they just have some casks ales on Mondays, maybe....not a good trend.

If you don't have a good "real ale" drinker base then you're screwed. The vast majority will pout about the beer being "too warm and flat." lthumbsdown:

 

[Secret Squirrel]

There's a cask festival here in Seattle once a year (Most of the brewpubs and specialty bars have at least 2 casks on tap...).

It was insane this year. 4 hours, 35 breweries, at least 2 different beers per brewery....all you can drink. I tried every beer (EVERY BEER!!!!). Then went back to the ones' I really liked...I took the Skrddddddshuttles approach and if I didn't like it I tossed it. (samples were 3 oz.)

Then we went on a pub crawl (the session we were at was started at noon...)


Holy crap. I think I still have all the notes I made...somewhere....

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip> Then went back to the ones' I really liked...I took the Skrddddddshuttles approach and if I didn't like it I tossed it. (samples were 3 oz.)

Then we went on a pub crawl (the session we were at was started at noon...)


Holy crap. I think I still have all the notes I made...somewhere....

Yup - no point getting $hitty on $hitty beer.

Break out those notes!

 

[valve bouncer]

If you don't have a good "real ale" drinker base then you're screwed. The vast majority will pout about the beer being "too warm and flat." lthumbsdown:

If they're keeping the lines busy then nothing beats a hand-pulled ale. If it has been sitting in the pipes for a while in summer it can be ordinary.