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Cask Ales in Ireland |
| Posted by Mark Andersen on 2013-03-04 09:54:52 |
| "They don't say anything about pasteurisation but, if it isn't pasteurised, how can they ensure that it remains fit to drink for any length of time? " It's because kegs are airtight. I've both kegged and casked my homebrew. The kegs will stay fit for weeks while the cask will start to go bad if not consumed in 2-3 days. "shows the beer going from the conditioning vessel into bottles, kegs and, seemingly, wooden casks. This can't be accurate as you can't put the same product into all three different containers. " I don't see why not? They will be conditioned differently no doubt (i.e. they add CO2 artificially to the keg and not the cask) but it's the same product going into all three containers. Again I could brew 15 gallons of homebrew and put the 5 gallons into a cask, 5 gallons into a keg, and bottle the rest. The only difference is that I'll add CO2 from a tank into the keg to force carbonate and make it airtight. |
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 Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on 2013-03-04 10:21:03 |
| Cask Ales in Ireland by Nick B. on 2013-03-04 23:27:13 |