So tell us beer geeks - what's the most unusual beer you've ever had on cask?

As a german craftbrewer, i have to say, that i really love real cask ale. Also many people in my Country Think that cask ale is just a flat and warm beer from britain. I really enjoy your Videos about the cask ale. They are great and make me thirsty😅. Cant wait to come back to britain and enjoy a cask ale in a pub. Keep on rockin guys. Cheers and thank you from cologne/germany 🍻

Jürgen Klopp brewing in his spare time there, ladies and gentlemen 👏🏼

Loved Henry’s enthusiasm for cask! Great series guys, will be keeping an eye on what’s on cask going forward!

You have 100% accomplished your goal at preserving cask ale tradition. Not just in your own country but here in the United States. Just from watching your channel I have a new found Love in Cask ale. 👍☺️

First! I need to try some cask ale!

The past weekend I was in 'The Hole In The Wall', one best craft beer pubs in Portsmouth. I had a pint on cask of their single hopped 'Mosaic Session Pale' from Urban Island Brewing Co, it's usually on keg/in can and on cask it was a level up. Can't wait to get back there this weekend for another (or 5). Cheers!

Loving this series. I was introduced to cask ale in the 90s as a late teen on a trip to England. I fell in love with it. Thankfully in my area of the NE US, I can get cask ales here and there, but it is nothing ubiquitous like being in the UK. After my second trip to England in 2019 I came home and set up a cask system at my house. I have a few pin casks, a beer engine, properly controlled cellar temps, and a CO2 breather system for extending the life of the beer beyond a few days. Although when friends are over I just run with a traditional soft spile for serving. I do several clones of my favorite UK ales that turn out very well. My property has a water profile that's right on for traditional bitters. Thanks to Paul Pendyck of the Bull's Head Pub in Litiz, PA for starting UK Brewing Supplies. Without his importing it would be difficult to access affordable cask equipment.

I didn't know the difference between cask and keg for ages! So glad I've been properly educated now & can appreciate what cask has to offer!

Best brewery tour ever was at Dark Star "I know you arent here to hear me describe brewing, you want the beer! We have 5 jugs here. Fill up when you are empty. When the jug is empty let us know and we will refill it" But it was still an awsome stand still tour.

This has been a great series. Well done guys.

"Fermenting at 40 degrees was thrilling!" Legend.

I had a cask pale ale from a craft brewery in Newcastle on Sunday. It was excellent; the best of both worlds.

Had my first pint of Abbeydale beer on cask in The Cricketers Arms in Horbury earlier this year. Lockdown had just lifted and I'd met up with 2 friends for a weekend of catch up and home brewing. It was an absolutely stunning pint of Deception and it is second only this year to the pint of Bread and Butter from Vocation I had earlier that week in its magnificence.

Just booked Sunday lunch at The Fountain! Can't wait! Visiting London this weekend with my wife😊

24:12 my man drops an absolute clanger and tries to save it with the most buttery of fingers. What a highlight

Henry is such a superstar! More of him please! 😅

This series is making me seriously consider buying a pin or firkin to stick on the bar. A hazy IPA would definitely be its first resident, but I have a regular Brit Golden and Brown that would work as well!

Thanks Guys, both Abbedale and Dark Star are doing great work by the looks, and head brewer Henry is obviously very passionate, you can tell by the way he talks with his hands!! That's what brewing needs to change minds and push boundaries! Wicked, I need to find some casks for our brewery here in NZ! Cheers Fellas, Mike.

I really enjoyed this! Your videos are head and shoulders above other beer channels, at least in the UK. Great pub the evening star- will try their new beer when I next see it. As you went to Sheffield, I'm curious- did you notice a difference between how cask is served down south ? I'm from Bradford but live in London. When I'm back home I much prefer the beers- Deception is one I drink a lot of at Jacobs Ale House, Bradford.... As they're pulled through a sparkler, the body is just so much better, smoother ..

Thank you for this series. Your first videos on cask beers from a few years ago helped open my eyes to the beauty of cask beer. Unfortunately I live in the US and cask beer is almost non-existent here. The good news is I live in Michigan so there's a lot to keep me busy and happy until I run across some cask in my travels. If you are ever near Grand Rapids, MI let me know, I'll be happy to buy you a pint or two!

Great series guys, we really need to get this message out to the young. This is our brewing culture and apart from pockets elsewhere, which we have directly influenced, if it starts to die off here it is effectively gone. I am 50 and have drunk cask all my life from obviously too many great breweries to count, some of which are already gone. In some ways this a repeat of the CAMRA fight of the early seventies but where as that was a battle against a patently inferior product this not as new keg beers are themselves an excellent well crafted product. We just have to continue to find space for both on bars, but we must not lose cask!

Loved this and can not wait to get back to the UK and try some of these new Cask Ales. Bring on the sparkler. :-)

There's a few breweries doing cask ale in the US and i really wish more played with the style. Zebulon did a cask sour that was incredible, pale ales and hazys are nice and pillowy soft. I just wish they weren't so expensive to set up on the homebrew scale.

Love that Dark Star Brewer's energy!! Woah!

Thanks for uploading this! Watching it as i clean kegs at work!

I'm in a cask desert in Arbroath, seriously tempted to get brewing myself an oasis. Seriously 25 pubs in such a small town, 2 serve cask apparently although I've yet to see them. Almost no craft beer at all on the bars.

Love this series!

Loved the series, I manage a brewery in Canada and im looking to add a cask program!

Another great vid. Dark star are one of my favourite breweries, never been for a visit, think I'll have to now...

cheers up you guys, from another part of the world

Great series! And thanks Fullers for funding it. I was worried Fullers might change following their buyout a few years back, but in fact their beer is as good as it's ever been, and the pubs are even better than before lockdown. Long may that continue!

the best beer i ever had was Fullers ESB on cask in the Catherine Wheel somewhere around Kensington 30-ish years ago. i have come close with my homebrew pale ale and fresh EKG's served out of a corny keg but hard to get the balance right because properly cellared fresh ESB is as close to perfect as you could get.

Really looking forward to trying my first cask ale soon! I was able to find one or two pubs serving it in Madison, Wisconsin. Thanks for the well done series and opening my eyes to cask.

Fantastic series

Brilliant show. Also great shirt Emma.

I'm gonna have to get the US on board with cask because you guys are killing me....so jealous!!! I'm both loving and hating this series🤣. Only hating the fact that I can't get the cask beer...I will definitely be talking cask up at breweries I go to. And cask has definitely moved way up on my bucket list. Great series and kudos for making it! 👏 🍻

That intro music really reminds me of Top Gear (in a good way)

Omg that looks so yummy, how can I wait till Friday 😭

Fantastic instalment, I want to go for a drink with Emma she seems great!

awesome stuff

im sold at the intro :)

I had a couple of really nice modern cask ales recently, Hybrid Brewings Jar Nektar and Bevvy.

this looks good

Have Galaxy Haze at LCBF earlier this summer. It was my best of the festival. Phenomenal. #caskinaglass

Hi Jonny, as someone who gets the luxury of buying , preparing and selling cask to our customers, I can truly say its such a mixed bag, there are some incredible breweries out there in the UK producing very much NE style pales and IPAs which are banging on cask. We are fortunate to get some one off specials on cask from some pretty well known breweries which have shown that it is truly a format for any style! A lot of people are put off by price on cask but for the right beer that isnt a problem. Would love to talk more

there is only one place that I know of near me in massachutes that has cask ale I have had a couple from there both of them are porters but very good

Henry is so enthusiastic that I am excited for cask

Two by Two based in Wallsend, Newcastle have been knocking out great hop forward cask IPA's for a few years now. You should hunt them down!

Great video again! One thing that annoys with beer in pubs is the glasses, straight sided glasses just shouldn't be a thing now I want nose! Also I think the half and pint are an outdated measure, a pint is often to much and a beer is flat and done by the end and a half is a tad small 330 and 440 in the cans are great sizes..

You're already in situation to save something that's just coming into our country. Maybe you should come to Serbia and do a couple of episodes, you will be surprised how late we are, but it will be living craft pioneer steps once again. Lucky you!

Dark Star Hophead and Creme Brulee are amazing.

Wish there was anyone around me doing this. But alas...Those 5 gallon pin kegs are starting to look pretty inviting.

Living in the US, are there any ways I could seek out cask? I’ve only gotten lucky and found it a few times at some breweries. I know Forest and Main (which isn’t too far from me) specializes in it, but they have unfortunately been pickup only since the pandemic began. (Hoping to get there again soon though!)

I think I would probably say Northern Monk x Siren Black IPA with coconut and pineapple. Not the kind of thing I ever expected to see on cask (and I think they only filled up two of them). One thing I wish more people knew (drinkers and, seemingly, brewers alike) is that big, thick imperial stouts are absolutely phenomenal on cask. I can think of two which underwhelmed me on keg, but were completely different beers on cask in terms of body and flavour presentation. It's the kind of thing I'd love to see more of, but I dunno whether the difficult economics of cask are even harder with a 10%+ beer.

The only problem with these type of beers in cask will be the shelf life due to oxidation. They are going to have to be consumed uber fresh and I don't think most pubs will be down to deal with these issues sadly.

Cask beer can add a lot. Been too long since I've been at bars that offer cask on tap like the Great Lost Bear in Portland, Maine.

Hello guys, really loving every episode. Thank you! Do you know if Galaxy Haze is currently on tap at The Evening Star? Cheers 🍻

Sign me up for a mild on cask. Great video

So, so good. Really enjoying it. I wish it were a 24 part series. Actually I wish i was there right now having one. The one thing that was killing me was the mic on the lapel OF THE VEST? He had a blue oxford on! I wanted to be able to hear him.

Great series and love the music. I think a concern with a cask Neipa is oxidisation, the shelf life would be even less than regular cask. Every neipa I’ve homebrewed and didn’t keg went brown :(

Up here in Scotland most of our craft beers are cask

Great series! Wish cask ale was more available in the States.

@ craft beer channel...I like the idea of continuing the traditions of cask ale. I enjoyed the cask ales very much when I lived in England during my time in the USAF. I do wonder if associations such as CAMRA might loosen up a bit on what qualifies as equipment for cask ales to make the management of casks less labor intensive. For example how about using pressure regulated blow off valves with gauges rather than soft spiles.

With the obsession with freshness these days too, if NEIPAs were served from cask, by definition, it kind of needs to be fresh! So you're always guaranteed that freshness - which I think is a cool benefit

That was very pleasant 👍🍻 #Rasko

I want Mild Comeback too! There is a couple New England Breweries that will turn out a Mild once in a while, but they tend to push up the ABV to 4% to 5%. I want a 3% Mild for a weekday beer.

Thanks for a great series on cask ale. Can't help wondering tho how NEIPA could be served in a cask considering how easily it gets oxidised, surely after a couple of days it would be ruined

Feeling a little guilty after just dropping cask from my bar. We were really struggling to even sell pins within 3-5 days and throwing away beer most weeks. Such a shame but at least I have another keg line! Even the old boys have been choosing the £6-7 NEIPA on keg over the £3-4 cask ale.

Loving this series guys! Love the accompanying music too! Just want to say that on the -ve side, the volume of people's voices does seem to fluctuate a fair bit. Sound level issue perhaps?

i want that CASK NEIPA NOW !!!!

Darkstar Henry is ace.

The auto-generated captions render "car scales" out of cask ales. 😁

Really enjoying this series. I think the NEIPA in cask sounds incredible- but what about the oxidation issues with super hoppy beers? How can that work with a style like NEIPA? Is it just a case of Very short lifespan or some other magic?

Sheffield Legends

Really interested to see how they limit oxidation when filling the cask, it seems to be a fairly open process so is it just the short lifespan in the cask that ensures a fresh NEIPA?

What about using sparklers? Where do you stand on that? Being a geordie, I've not really had any experience of cask in the South (i.e. without a sparkler). That NEIPA looked great mind.

I need more information on this! I want to see what the process is. Don't need a strain, but if it's an Ale yeast, Lager, or Kveik. My guess is probably London Fog? Guessing they put it in the cask before it's fully dried out so it scrubs the oxygen in the cask and introduced in the transfer? This suggests early hopping schedule and no cold crash? Do they use a float in the cask? No SMB, ascorbic acid, or other antioxidant added? Was it tapped that day? Do we know how long it lasts before it starts with the darkening and other oxidative issues? Do they use a CO2 Aspirator breather valve?

Didn't know Klopp owned a brewery.

Try some of Phoenix brewery’s wobbly Bob thank me later

EKG!!!

So cask beer being virtually non existent in Eastern Canada, how does secondary fermentation in the cask differ as far as mouth feel vs a kegged beer? I envision it as something similar to a beer on nitro, but maybe it is somewhere in between keg (CO2) and keg (Nitro). I think I have had one cask beer in my time, and while it was at a pretty good beer bar, their explanation of a "cask beer" was that it wasn't chilled, and the cask just sat on the bar in ambient temperature (clearly that is wrong). When going about making a cask beer, is it as simple as the beer goes from the primary fementer, into the cask (the secondary fermenter), and whatever yeast is still in the beer is what makes the CO2 in the cask? Or do that add more yeast to the cask? Could this not be done in a traditional keg home brew set up? Secondary fermentation in the keg? I realize it is manually pumped from the cask, but instead of a pump to dispense the beer, could you not just use just enough serving pressure from a CO2 canister to dispense? Sorry for the question, cask newbie, only because it just doesn't exist here, save for one local brewery that has a cask night one night a week, but it is usually just a core beer, that they have put in a cask, with something extra (core stout with cold brew coffee and/or cocoa nibs added, or core Belgian IPA with some sort of fruit added), and it isn't pumped into the glass, the cask is just on the bar back, with a tap and gravity fed into the glass. Not sure if it is actually secondary fermented in the cask, and not just the cask filled from their brite tank, already with CO2 in it.

A cask Saison!? What is this witchcraft? I'm curious how the bubbly effervescence normally attributed to a Saison is achieved via cask..

Very much about dropping that stigma of cask, but difficult when it’s sold as this old U.K. traditional beer format. Find the sweet spot of marketing it.

Dark Star Hophead was a fine beer until it was taken over by some Japanese outfit. It then went downhill dramatically until, at last they realised their absurd mistake and started brewing it again at the Dark Star Brewery. The original Brewer, Mark Tranter brews a splendid beer called Burning Sky . You can get it round the corner from the Evening Star in the Prince Albert, Trafalgar Street .Have a go at Kent Brewery Prohibition if you get the chance. One of the best real ale pubs in that part of the world is the Crown in Eastbourne , or the Hurst Arms for a great range of Harvey`s

In my opinion some of these new hop heavy cask ales are terrible, I much prefer traditional malty XB style bitters

As a lover of British Beer, it saddens me there's an implication that the future of cask lies in sludge, aka swamp water.

Cask was doing well, more choice, better beers and improved quality (not by Fullers) Then decline was caused by LOCKDOWN as people could not go to the pub and had to drink cans etc Why keep focusing on this American stuff? When we have so many good UK products and style

really shite shirt. 2 thumbs up. Good work.

Stop this idea that we need a story of beer, or any product all we need to do is talk to the people who make it; we don't need a story that's marketing bullshit