kook said:
Ducatiboy stu said:
Yep, that sounds fine....
Wonder if there are any micro's in Oz doing a proper cask cond ale....?
Could be a winner...
I only know of one brewery in the UK still using wood casks, Harveys. And i'm pretty sure they only do it for a couple beers too.
Everyone else I've looked into uses SS.
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Seconded. Cask conditioned DOES NOT MEAN conditioned in wood. Virtually all cask conditioned beer is conditioned in stainless steel or aluminium casks (and, occasionally now, plastic).
Only Sam Smiths put all their cask conditioned beer into wooden casks.
Wadworths use wooden casks for some of their best outlets close to the brewery.
JW Lees likewise
Theakstons likewise.
St Austell use wooden pins (4.5 gallon casks) for special events and for when they need pins (metal pins have been very hard to get hold of for several years).
The above are, I believe, the only breweries that employ a full or part-time cooper.
A few other breweries have a small number of wooden casks for special events, special beers, etc.
Maturing in wood and cask conditioning are
not the same thing. The two can go together, or you can have either one on its own.
If you mature beer in a wooden cask and then transfer it (flat) to a keg and carbonate it in the keg, then it is not cask conditioned.
If you naturally carbonate your beer in a stainless keg, vent it appropriately, and serve it without positive pressure CO2, then it is cask conditioned without coming within shouting distance of wood.
