Buxton to quit cask ale, maybe, kinda

I think I've only ever had Moor Top from them before on cask and while it was very nice, I think its fair to say there are many nice pale and hoppy cask offerings going round

Otherwise it's just bottles from them (usually excellent)

seems like they are going the brewdog route and chasing the profit that you get from kegs, I suspect there will more and more breweries doing this as we have so many now

In the long run it might actually be good overall if we get more breweries just concentrating on bottles/canned/ keg and the others concentrating on cask/bottles/cans etc. Although that split might fuel even more tedious cask v. keg arguments, but hopefully everyone will have grown up by then. Not holding my breath

 

I noted that Bruxton mentioned: “Overwhelming customer demand for other formats - bottle and keg.”

Would it be fair to say that other British breweries would make a similar comment: overwhelming customer demand for non-cask beer?

Cheers!

 

In other words, we can make more money doing keg and bottle

 

"A depressed cask market place flooded with poor to average cask beer, sold cheap."

Where is this cheap beer?

 

Wetherspoons and...... no I can't really think of anywhere else. Cask is often a bit cheaper than "premium" lagers and so on, but paying £3.50 -£4 a pint of something pale and hoppy (like moor top) is still not exactly cheap.

Perhaps it's time for brewers and consumers to put more pressure on publicans/pubcos to treat beer a bit better. Climate controlled cellars would be a start

 

Reading the comments on Facebook is disappointing. Love the anti cask hipster types being so predictable in their intolerant, closed-minded views (and general arsehole-ness/punchability). Literally never met any of flat cap wearing, whippet owning types who are apparently the only people who like only beer served from a cask.

It seems I've been wrong all along, you can't have good keg beer AND good cask beer.

 

My favourite way of drinking beer is via cask dispense, but I would certainly like to see a massive improvement in non-cask offerings from pubs/restaurants. I'm quite sure most consumers would too. A lot of the chain/pubco/hotel places tend to stick to offering rather uninspiring keg lines - for example, my local hotel/bar offers worthington smooth flow, guinness, coors light. Often (here in scotland at least) all you will see is Belhaven Best/Guinness/Tennents on keg lines and that is it . And so on. And the problem with breaking into this is that the likes of Heineken have started offering hundreds of free kegs of beer to their customers to keep their contracts going and squeeze out competition

However, the increasing number of independent restaurants and bars though tend to want something different, so I can certainly see an increase in demand from that part of the industry and perhaps the smaller chains can certainly be a bit more flexible.I'm sure this is what the likes of Buxton are targeting


Also, I think one of the main problems with the modern beer scene in the UK is the schism that is forming, see what CwrwAmByth alluded to, is that there is a large and growing scene of people who think they are cool and modern and so reject cask because you americans don't really do it and its seen as old hat here, so it must be shit. Which is utterly ******ed imo, but there we go, I'm 35 and so obviously don't know any better. And to add a bit of balance, yes there are a few people online who seem to think that keg=satans smegma, but I've yet to find one in the wild so to speak.

 

Especially ******ed given the quality of the US cask beer at the gbbf year after year