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Real ale tradition

Posted by Nick B. on 2010-10-26 23:12:13

I really did have to travel to England to appreciate the difference between US "cask-conditioned" beer and Real Ale. I suppose it's possible that some microbreweries and brewpubs in the US do cask-conditioning properly with real fermentation in the cask, but these must be very, very rare. Normally, "cask-conditioned" beer in the US is simply a regular CO2 keg run through a handpump. A theoretical improvement over simple CO2 dispense IMO, but still quite different from Real Ale. AFA Franconian beer goes, I drank {0} Franconian beer yesterday; it was all homebrew. Oh, wait, my homebrew *is* Franconian! And a bottle of Clausthaler Extra Herb (not the regular Clausthaler, mind, this gold-label stuff is --perhaps ironically-- the *hoppiest* "beer" I know of in Germany) at lunch.

Real ale tradition by Uncle Jimbo on 2010-10-27 06:02:17

Real ale tradition by JosB on 2010-10-27 15:22:05