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Indeed, whether the alcohol is placed in a keg or a cask before it's poured into your glass plays a large role in its taste and texture. Keg beer and cask ales represent two distinct approaches to ...
Cask beer is our national drink. It deserves celebration for its ability to be any kind of beer you could possibly want to create and so much care goes into its production. There’s nothing quite like ...
Cask ale is finally rid of its image of being a fusty pint favoured by old men and instead is being appreciated for its flavour and enjoyed by a third of women, new research reveals. For many ...
Craft beer is taking over the world; most people are still drinking lager; cask beer is dying; pubs are dying; the craft beer boom is over (before some people noticed it had started). It’s all ...
Cask ale brewers are calling for the beer to be given a 'cultural heritage' status in an attempt to stop its decline. With Gen-Z routinely drinking cocktails, lagers or spirits, ale is continuing ...
Walk into Hogshead Brewery and you’ll see its English-style cask ales listed above the bar on a menu on the left. Let your eyes drift to the right, however, and you’ll see an even larger menu ...
The brewer of Old Speckled Hen is moving its focus away from cask ales as Britain loses its taste for the traditional beers. Greene King plans to double down on fizzier keg beers after the success ...
Sales across the hospitality sector remain well below pre-pandemic levels, consultant suggests Cask ales are becoming rarer at Britain’s pubs as the cost-of-living crisis prompts landlords to ...
As longtime readers know, I’m a huge fan of cask/real ale. And while I sporadically lobby for more bars/breweries to provide it, I certainly understand the reasons why many don’t. Once the ...
No need to travel across the Atlantic Ocean for a proper English ale. The Fiddlin’ Pig, a British pub in Smithfield, has attained a Cask Marque accreditation, a prestigious designation that ...
Blue Point Brewing held its 20th annual Cask Ales Festival at the brewery in Patchogue on Nov. 2, with over 2,400 attendees filling the big tent to enjoy more than 150 cask ales from over 60 ...