The question of craft vs real ale and keg vs cask are the current arguments in the world of beer. These are merely words which a person or set of people have chosen to represent a group of similar products. It makes describing a pint of Black Sheep Bitter a two word affair, its “Real [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Challenge – Define “Real Ale” and “Craft Beer” in your own 30 words.
Posted: 30th January 2012 by admin in Writing3
Pubpaper 641 – Good Pub, Bad Pub, Unexciting Beer
Posted: 22nd January 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Black Sheep, fullers, guinness, hambletons, john smiths, real ale, sowerby bridge, stout, tasting, the works
Last week I mentioned the two questions posed by one of my fellow bloggers boakandbailey, which, to recap were 1) In a strange pub with well kept mainstream cask ales, but a distinctive range of keg beers, which would you choose and 2) In the same circumstances, if there were mainstream keg beers, but an [...]
Pubpaper 640 – CAMRA consults over Keg Beer and reaching a balance
Posted: 16th January 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, Uncategorized, WritingTags: Brewdog, camden, CAMRA, craft beer, hardknott, keg beer, kernel, magic rock, marble, real ale, stout, summer wine, thornbridge, todmorden
There has been much written both in the blogosphere among beer writers and in this paper by myself and the editor regarding CAMRA’s attitude to keg beer. Their view on the subject is generally considered to be both unhealthy to the beer trade generally and being too inclusive given the craft keg beer revolution which [...]
Pubpaper 639 – A local case study into the pub scene – Hebden Bridge
Posted: 10th January 2012 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: calderdale, hebden bridge, hole in the wall, pub trade, real ale, shoulder of mutton, white lion
Last week I looked briefly back at 2011, and concluded that it had not been a bad year locally regarding the pub scene in Calderdale considering the economic climate, especially in the real ale sector of the local industry, but also for local pubs, of which I observed a number of re-openings this year, especially [...]