I'd love to try this. I was recently in York and visited the Phoenix. We enjoyed the Timothy Taylor's Landlord. In fact, that's what I have whenever I've gone there.
In PA, so more ESA, besides another infrequent thread entry: A Spontaneous Real Ale/GABF Winner via cask…not a... Teresa Café & Next Door Pennsylvania, USA 3xActive Beer Engines 1xAngram 2xNot Angram Conditioned Pub Visit: August 19, 2023 Spontaneous Ale: Coolship Resurgam Brewery: Allagash Cask Tapped: > 2xWeeks ABV: 6.3% Aspirator: No Immersed: Yes Sparkler: On Pints: 1 Extra Special/Strong Bitter: Extra Special Ale (ESA) Brewery: Yards Cask Tapped: < 1xWeek ABV: 6% Aspirator: No Immersed: Yes Sparkler: On Pints: 1 Sparkler: Off Pints: 1
More relaxed and more at ease per the lessened degrees on acerbity, by evaporation/oxidation: Teresa’s is – on the face of it – handling/upholding these casks appropriately, which plays a significant role (e.g. bacteria/bugs are being managed via the publican) …a piston-pull outtake, for those interested - Granted, this topic is a thread exception, which has been articulated…The Referend is the most affluent in articulating this exception in the Mid-Atlantic/on the East Coast, providing the stillness & the engaged microorganisms
Another issue is that the judges' palates are probably different from the commenters'. And the first few BA reviews of the cask seem fairly positive too. I know my palate has shifted over the years, to some extent following the trend toward paler, hoppier beers. Maybe a tempest in a teapot (or a mash tun)?
Lines rotted during COVID, and there are currently no plans to resurrect the piston pump. Nonetheless, BT usually has a gravity cask on display - Blind Tiger New York, USA 2xBeer Engines Inactive/Inoperative 1xGravity Dispensed Cask Cask-conditioned Cask Tapped: August 23, 2023 Pub Visit: August 25, 2023 English-style Pale Ale (ESB): Unlicensed Brewery: Fifth Hammer ABV: 5.1% Immersed: No Pints: 2
Nice to see Yards ESA out the in wild. In my first few years of beer drinking, that was the beer most often featured by places that would tap a cask on a Friday night. Now it's a rarity to see, but Yards recently announced on social media they are going to can ESA again for a Fall/Winter variety pack
Yards started to incorporate this into the schedule more frequently post the ‘2022 Real Ale Invitational’ via Cask through local establishments: The Standard Tap, Teresa’s, Dandelion (arguably unrivaled per handling) + Onsite @ Yards… …most folks (e.g. visitors, tourists) looking for cask in the area are directed towards F&M, which is appropriate & rightfully so. Nevertheless, will usually toss in…
Now that its jogging my memory, I did have a pint of ESA last Fall from the beer engine at Varga Bar in Philly. I found the post https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...rinking-now-2022.664092/page-287#post-7667940
Back in the day I drank a lot of cask ESA (plus other Yards cask beers) at Dawsons Street Pub in Manayunk; they had 3 beer engines going. In the early days of Yards there was the 'local connection' since they brewed their beer in the very small brewery on Umbria Street. Cheers!
Local 44 Pennsylvania, USA 2xBeer Engines (Angram) 1xActive Conditioned Tapped: < Week Pub Visit: August 26, 2023 English-style Pale Ale (ESB): Puddlers Row ESB (2xWBC Winner) Brewery: Conshohocken ABV: 5.4% Aspirator: No Immersed: Yes Sparkler: Off Pints: 1 Sparkler: On Pints: 1
St Austell and Verdant release collaboration cask beer (morningadvertiser.co.uk) "…made with Verdant’s own yeast and three new experimental English hopping varieties…Both breweries are coming at things from a different angle and that’s the true point of collaboration, different ideas from different places that coalesce to make one product that is great and brings something new to the table that neither one of us would have thought about doing..." --- St Austell is part of a collaborative mission...
September = Cask/Gravity Platforms…. Gravity Festival (gravitybeerfestival.co.uk) ---- Adam to tap three...
One of those uncustomary occasions, where Preston isn’t throwing unnecessary materials into the faß… High Point (Ramstein) New Jersey, USA 1xGerman Gravity Dispense Cask Tapped/Spigoted: September 1, 2023 Visit: September 1, 2023 Doppelbock: Bourbon Barrel Winter Wheat ABV: 9.5% Immersed: Yes (marginally) Sidenote: Mayor to be tapping ‘Oktoberfest from the Wood’ per tradition/last year on September 9, 2023
Looking like it will be Saturday October 7th (subject to change), and will be Burrow Nut Brown, Plumage British style Pale Ale, and Thicket Best Bitter all on gravity pins and draft versions for comparison.
Upcoming Gravity Fest(s): October 14th: 8th Annual New York State Cask Ale Festival at Woodland Farm Brewery Tickets, Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite November 4th: 19th Annual Cask Ales Festival Tickets, Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite
