Steve MitchellIt's the first session of the Thurrock Beer and Cider Festival. This year there are 67 different cask ales on offer; let's see how many we can sample this year
Jon PENNYCOOK#CAMRA seem to be about to create confusion - their new strategy promotes "live beer", rather than "real ale". The two are the same thing, but their very name includes the words "Real Ale". I don't see how this rebranding helps consumers find real ale rather than "fresh beer"/"craft ale"/"nitrokeg". And then they also mention "cask beer". We need a single unifying term rather than three.
Stephen BorrillSo now we've really gone back in time as it is #HappyHour. #CaskAle is now just £2 a pint.
Speaking of beer, there's an article in the #CAMRA magazine about #CaskAle in the #USA name-checking Portland, Brooklyn, Georgia and Arizona. I'd love to hear how visible this is in real life to the discerning beer drinkers on the Fediverse
BruhahaThe Drapers Arms entrusted us with their wooden cask and we thought it would be perfect to fill it with Dead and Berry'd, our Robust Fruited Porter, brewed using fruit foraged from Arnos Vale Cemetery. It's been in it's Cask(et) for a month now infusing some of the wonderful flavours from the wood. How will it taste? Like us, you'll have to head to The Drapers Arms on Monday the 24th of November to find out.
John Mc 𓅛 🍻Today is our first round match in the Bristol Brewery Challenge at The Sirens Calling in Portishead.
It's our first attempt and in the first round we’ve been drawn against our good friends at The Incredible Brewing Company in Brislington. That's tough competition!
We've entered our new Pale Ale "Hail to the King". It's a cask cousin of our house pale "Elvis has left the Building". We hope you like it! It'll be on at the brewpub next week.
If you are UK resident and care about #caskale, sign the petition to get a Parliament debate asking the UK Government to give cask beer UNESCO status, under the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686
Petition: Recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Following the UK’s ratification of UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, we call on the Government to recognise production and serving of traditional British cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage.