Cask Ale Perfection: Essential Tips and Tricks for Brewers

Nick from Murphy & Son educates us on Cask Ale production, sharing his essential tips and tricks for brewers of this traditional ale.
What is cask ale? Cask ale differs from kegged beer and needs other treatments to ensure you get the perfect pour from the beer engine.
Cask ale, also known as cask-conditioned beer or 'real' ale, undergoes secondary fermentation in a barrel. Brewers of cask ale don't interfere with it, and they don't filter or pasteurise it. Fresh live beer is put straight into the barrel, still in an unfinished form containing some lovely residual yeast, where it remains alive and kicking until it lands in your glass.
Read more about the Cask Ale scene in our three-part blog series, The Importance of Cask Beer.
Part One: The Obsession
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Part Two: Should We Trust the Data?
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Part Three: Cask on the International Stage
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0:00 Intro
1:02 Where to start?
2:18 The proccess and ingrediants
3:04 Cask Ale maturation
4:13 Secondary fermentation
5:57 Cask Ale finnings and clarity
10:02 Ambiant temperature
12:45 Shelf life of cask ale
14:40 Sparkler or not

[@billybungle1757]

Brilliant video, really interesting.
No sparkler though ... keep it natural.

[@eoinc4091]

I salivated through the whole video 😂. I live in the South of Ireland, and cask beer is almost non existent. I love trips to the UK to try different cask beers ❤

[@TankardBrewing]

Amazing insight cheers guys 🍺

[@payneee9082]

Just back from Leeds where I had beautiful Leeds pale through a sparkler and going to pop down my local Harvey’s owned pub tonight for a cracking pint of old ale served without. I suppose if it’s great beer served In lovely condition it doesn’t matter, loved the video

[@dwalsh3469]

Very informative.

[@owencampbell138]

Great video. Very informative. Hope to see more cask in Ireland! It’s a cracking style when done right

[@AnalogueInTheUK]

Awesome information and advice. Many thanks.
One day, soon, I'm going to have to install a handpump and do my beer justice (with a sparkler of course)!

[@matty431]

Thank you for the information. He makes me want to have a pint 😋😁

[@garyballared2077]

no sparkler for me

[@dangarner104]

Interesting video. Should cask ale be cold crashed then or not?