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The Perfect Pour (Keep Cask Alive p10)

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This week we're pushing the idea that cask ale is a more beautiful pour than a Guinness – while telling the story of the sparkler and isinglass with trips to Burton, Yorkshire, and one of London's oldest pubs.

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00:00 Introduction
02:13 Main episode

20 Comments

@TheCraftBeerChannel Creator 1 year ago Pinned

Hey everyone! Thanks for watching! Our government petition, asking for cask ale to be recognised at the national level at "Living Heritage" is now live. if you're a UK resident please sign it here then share with all your friends: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686

@lcfc4cp 1 year ago

Hopefully the Guinness obsession could be the gateway to making cask popular again? Imagine how excited those guys will get when they discover a beer that actually varies from venue to venue 😆

@natedizzy 1 year ago

As an American homebrewer, I can even recognize how important English influence is on beer. Burton on Trent has a significant history from water profile to essential brew styles. Thanks guys! 🍻

@sp00ky_guy 1 year ago

I'm a southerner who is absolutely pro-sparkler on all cask beer, I just love that textural heterogeneity you get with it.

@paulhammond5599 1 year ago

So pleased to see this I am in my 70s and was born and raised in a small country pub in Suffolk. The beer came in wooden casks and sat on wooden stands behind the bar where it was pored through brass taps straight from the barrel. My parents had the pub for 26 years and after they retired I took on a pub myself until the EU said it was unfair for the brewers to have as many tenancies and my pub was one that was sold off, as there was already 2 in the village and mine being a tenancy and the others managed. Keeping a good cask ale is an art in itself especially in wood. So good to see it kept up even in metal cases lol.

@doodleplop800 11 months ago

Cheers lads! Just poured a pint of landlord (at home) after a long shift.

@JeffTheGlassCaster 1 year ago

My bride and I love CBC and especially this series. As American cask lovers, we are indeed jealous of our cousins across the pond for the availability of this wondrous elixir. Thank goodness for us that we have a home in Denver where we can enjoy Real Ales at Hogshead Brewery. What a treat!

@missourimongoose8858 3 weeks ago

There's still one local near me that has cask....thank you civil life lol

@whytester 1 year ago

These have been brilliant! Loving the depth of knowledge in each episode and the quality

@eyyitskastro 1 year ago (edited)

As an American, I get so jealous that y'all have this beautiful rich culture/history with cask ale, of course because y'all did invent it haha. It is an absolute shame English styles aren't as prolific here. Hops have always reigned king in US craft beer for decades. The mid 2000s-2010s everyone was just one-upping each other crafting the biggest, hop bomb of a beer. I yearn for the malt, the balance, the texture haha. The closest we get is getting a pour on nitro and even then the majority of people don't know the history that they were served that way to emulate a cask style pour. Thanks for all these videos! I dream of the day of flying over and having a real, proper English pint.

@leiwarl 7 months ago

I'm a Southerner,but Northern all the way!

@ianlaker9161 1 year ago

I've said it before but what a fabulous series. Cask has weathered many a storm but I've been drinking it since I was a student in the 70s. I'm in my 65th year and I firmly believe it will still be going strong after my time. As for sparklers, I couldn't imagine a pint of Landlord served without one and I'm born and bred in East Kent where my local beers should have the clean quick pour straight from the unhindered faucet. Horses for courses.

@elliothines8831 1 year ago

I'm from Brighton so I was raised on beer without sparklers, particularly Harvey's. However, I now live in Manchester and I'm fully converted to using a sparkler. I even went to a Harvey's tap takeover up here which was serving it with a sparkler which I know is sacrilege, but I thought it was incredible!

@FatherEarth93 1 year ago

Great piece on Isinglass, only undercut ever so slightly by my need to sing 'They're taking the hobbits to Isinglass' in my head for ten minutes straight.😅

@araucari101 1 year ago

I bloody love a good pint of Landlord.

@oboogie81 1 year ago

This series is really very interesting and I love your pub culture over there. Next time I come from Vienna to London or the UK I will try cask ale, I promise. Until now I have only refreshed myself with lager beer or Guinness when going to pubs.

@MichaelAndersen_DK 1 year ago

It's like alot of other food/beverages. You love what you grew up with. Just don't frown upon whatever others fancy. Pour it your way!
Cheers guys, another great episode!

@rankenfile 1 year ago

I'm loving this whole series, and enjoy learning the distinctions of these cask ales. I'm an American who enjoyed a few pulled pints in pubs while visiting in Hereford, parts of Wales and Cambridge in the late 1980's and London in the 2010's.