Satan's minions have once again been launching attacks on the one true living beer, this time by saying cask beer should be saved by pubs ripping out their cask lines or something. But there seems to me a better, more obvious and all together less diabolic solution: pubs should stop selling keg beer. That'll get those that are used to suckling at the devil's drainpipe drinking in the ways of righteousness!
Even in these dark times I know that it is possible for pubs to sell more cask beer. My local is now back up to six (6) hand pumps and the top two (2) best selling beers are cask beers. For their heathen customers they do sell keg beer, with Fosters coming in third. This glorious success has not been achieved by poltroonery or moral turpitude. It has been achieved by caring about cask beer and looking after it. And I've even heard from the landlady that one of the strengths of cask beer is its growing popularity with young people. So let us gird our loins, stiffen our upper lips and continue to drink beer served as god intended.
Hold the line!
Hold the line!
As we held the line at Horsell
We will hold it everywhere
Hold the line!
Hold the line!
We will hold the line forever
Till there's cask beer everywhere
Is that Toto ? Not as good as Africa, is it ? That were good.
ReplyDeleteI do remember there being a bit of a thing for that song amongst beer geeks on twitter. Didn't really get it myself, I mean it's nice enough but it's no Hawkwind.
DeleteI thought Toto to begin with!
DeleteI'm starting to think more beer geeks listen to Toto than Pete Seeger. Surely that can't be right?
DeleteAll beer Twitter listens to naff music and pub Twitter listens to punk. FACT.
DeleteAs a beer geek and #PubMan that means I must listen to naff music AND punk. Yeah, probably right.
DeleteHi Ed - published a paper recently on the bugs in lager, keg ale, stout and cask beer from trade samples (20 pubs). A couple of quotes - 'The quality of cask ale was notably superior to lager and stout with keg ale exhibiting the poorest quality', Unsurprisingly, cask beer is not found in all public houses as it requires experienced cellar management skills to assure good quality beer'.
ReplyDeleteScientific proof that cask beer is better than keg beer!
DeleteSome proof from round your way; the landlord of that Knaphill pub talked me through his cellar management, cooling and testing of his magnificent Proper Job. Can't imagine a keg pub doing that.
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