But Oregon overall has a distinct lack of “cask culture”, so to speak, so the opportunities just aren’t there. Not to say I’m completely clueless-I’ve thoroughly enjoyed cask ales when I’ve ordered them, and I’d be happy if every beer I drink could be cask-conditioned. It’s like bottles of homebrew are casks!īeyond that pithy observation, I have to confess a lack of experience in drinking cask-conditioned beers. Bottle-conditioning is essentially a secondary fermentation of the beer in the bottle, naturally carbonating it you open a bottle and serve it as-is, without the “extraneous” CO 2. One of the first things I thought, from his definition of cask-conditioned ale, is that homebrewed beer fits that definition almost perfectly: at least when it’s bottle-conditioned. I expect this month’s Session posts will be good reads. Why not invite brewers and drinkers and bemused casked-spectators to contribute essays for the Session?īesides that question, Tom suggests a number of other possible discussion points for this month’s topic. So, let’s hear yours, and not only yours. Viewers of this blog have read my opinions on cask-conditioned ale, and probably once too often. This month’s topic is brought to us by Tom over at Yours for Good Fermentables and the topic is Cask-Conditioned Beer:Ĭask-conditioned ale -or “real ale” as it is called, somewhat boastfully, by the Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA), a beer consumer advocacy group in the UK- is defined by that organization asīeer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide. All the participating blog posts will then be gathered and summarized by the host for the month (who is also the one who got to pick the theme and set any ground rules). It’s the first Friday of the month again, and that means it’s time for “Beer Blogging Friday”-AKA The Session, the monthly collaboration of beer bloggers across the world to write about a common topic. FebruBy Jon Abernathy | Filed in The Session
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