Why do you drink at Bars, Breweries or Taprooms?

I tend to hit up breweries or craft bars to get some time out of the house, away from the kids, the dogs, the chores, the mess. I know quite a few of the brewers/owners so it is exciting to stop in when they happen to be in as well. Talk shop, chat about new projects/beers they are dreaming of or working on. When my family goes out for dinner I tend to stear us toward pubs.

 

OK you're werid (you are welcome )

 

I just like drinking when I want to drink. As I age, the packed to the brim young kids bars are less and less appealing, but give me a good dive and I am in heaven. Just sitting at a brewery or bar just feels right, good conversation with a game on the tv.

 

At least someone here can follow directions.

 

Absolutely. I know my beer is fresh at home, whilst bars and restaurants is more a roll of the dice. But, when I order draft beer out it’s usually at place that do right by their beer drinking patrons. Or it’s at breweries. In short, I try to spend my money at places where it’s not as much of a gamble.

Am I correct that draft beer is not pasteurized while canned/bottle beer is? I wonder if that has anything to do with my enjoyment of draft. Perhaps it’s all in my head (which I’m fine with)?

 

We appreciate you. I myself have young kids. I keep them out of adult environments for this exact reason. Cheers.

 

That has been the situation with megabrewed beers. Most craft breweries do not pasteurize their beers so both draft and packaged (canned, bottled) are unpasteurized.

Cheers!

 

As mentioned above socializing and draft beer.

 

I tried. Failed. Adapted.

 

It's even a bigger deal in the UK where you have cask beer. Something that's extremely difficult to replicate at home. Unless you can drink 9 gallons off beer in three days.*

* Me and my two sons did manage this last time I visited my brother.

 

That sounds like a blast.

 

It was. And we went to the pub every day, too.

 

How I yearn for low abv cask cake to be more easily accessible where I live.

 

Ron, 9 gallons is indeed challenging.

Have you ever drank cask ale in a box:





Drinking 9 liters over a couple/few days is more doable for me.

Cheers!

 

Yes, I have drank cask ale in a box, and would be happy to do so again:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...drinking-now-2020.630612/page-37#post-6912989

I drank 5L of Machine House Dark Mild over 3 nights. Delightful.

 

Because my wife makes me leave my Man cave from time to time.
If it was up to me, I'd never leave the house.
Hard to find good beer on tap out anyway.
I'd rather drink my own beers or the few I have stashed from the local beer distributor.
I'm disabled and hate going out.

 

“Cask ale is essentially an unfiltered, unpasteurised ‘live’ product containing yeast that is served from the cask container where it’s gently matured by secondary fermentation.”

The other term sometimes used is Real Ale.

Cheers!

 

Well, for further clarification there is a plastic bag within the box which contains the beer.

The other aspect of the cask in the bag/box is that provides a draft beer experience. As depicted in the photo above you conduct a gravity pour from the bag/box using the spigot akin to serving cask ale from a firkin that is placed on the top of the bar.

Now, the next question is what defines real ale? An old timer might say that real ale must be served from a cask (e.g., a firkin). The organization CAMRA is a bit broader here in that they will state that a bottle conditioned beer is Real Ale since the beer is served from the container in which the beer was carbonated (i.e., the bottle). Now, if we are willing to ‘extend’ things here and state that if a brewery utilizes can conditioning then that beer too would be Real Ale (I discussed a can conditioned beer yesterday in the NBW thread). There are not many beers that are can conditioned.

So, if you are broad minded in how you define Real Ale (Cask Ale) then yes this could be “done” in a can conditioned beer.

Cheers!