I Love Cask beer!

[Bsquared]

I love the cask movement going on right now. I seems like most breweries are offering casks these days, at last here in SD. I've been able to get a cask beer at most of my local watering holes most every day of the week, and from different brewers. I especially like when they have a cask and a non-cask of The same beer.

Saturday I was up in the OC for a wedding, and stopped at Port brewing in San Clemente. They had their killer Dana double IPA on tap and cask. The beer was a good IIPA, but on cask...it was some thing else.

I got to build a beer engine!

 

[skadalajara]

I had my first (and to date only) cask ale at a brewpub in Boston back in March.
I feel the same way you do.
But there don't seem to be any pubs locally that feature cask ales.
Guess I'll have to build a beer engine, too.

 

[chumprock]

I'm lucky to have a few bars with casks, and an occasional firkin!

When we went to UK last spring, the majority of our time was spent seeking out and drinking the lovely hand-pulled ales.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Me wonders if a 3 gal PET carboy will work as a firkin.......

 

[eager_brewer]

I went to 2 Brothers Brewing outside of chicago a couple of months ago and had Hop Juice (IPA) from a cask and it was awesome. I ordered a regular one on tap and they suggested I try a cask pull instead. 4 hours and 90 bucks later I left saying I need one of these!

 

[DrinksWellWithOthers]

The first time I had cask beer there was something wrong with all three of the beers. I didn't know that then and figured that's what cask beer was supposed to be like. So for a couple of years my girlfriend and I avoided cask beer like the plague until someone forced me to try a certain beer one night earlier this year. Wow! Man I've been missing out!

After convincing my girlfriend that cask beer can be good and forcing her to taste a vanilla porter on cask at Moat Mountain Brewery, we are die hard cask fans. Every Friday night is Firkin Friday at our local bar and we try to hit it up as much as possible.

 

[McKBrew]

For anyone considering building a beer engine.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/fellow-homebrewers-meet-my-new-beer-engine-10529/

 

[Schlenkerla]

This a good website. It has instructions for doing cask beer from a corny.

Homebrewed Cask Ales

Combine this with McKBrew's link above and one could have the whole set-up rather cheap.

I plan to make one like the one in the link but I also want one on my kegerator.