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Any ale yeast will do.

So, I think that will be Gervin / Nottingham yeast, so I would have expected it to have kicked off by now. What temp is it at?

Not really. As I believe I have already said, not everyone will have read Carlsbergs splendid marketing output. So, at the point of...

What yeast did you use, Max?

Providing it is clearly labeled as what it is. Which is keg. So, something along the lines of "This isn't live real ale from a cask, but...

Well it's is ever so simple. They are trying to sell keg as cask, by passing it of as something it isn't. In reality, it is keg. I can't...

No, I'm not sure. Unlike real ale in cask, which is a defined thing, "Fresh Ale" can be owt.

No, it's almost exactly that (except they filter it before putting it in the keg, force carb it and don't have the intermittent beer bag...

Not cask drinkers if cask is longer in their chain pubs supply catalogue, knowledge of how to keep it has been lost, and the various...

About 10-15 years ago, Tesco definitely used to sell Coopers Pale Ale. Not any more, unfortunately, as I have brought it in the past to...

I can assure you that they are indeed proposing serving it through a beer engine. Let's just hope it's a massive failure, and there...

I don't disagree that there is more to cask / real ale than dispense, which is why fresh keg ale isn't cask / real ale. My concerns are...

I would rather see no cask than rubbish cask. That's a different argument: it doesn't mean I want to see keg passed off as cask. It...

My point is the large chains that presently do cask, will see this as an opportunity to kill it off - less staff training, less waste...

Does it acknowledge that though? Does it have a sign on the beer engine that says "This is keg, not cask. This isn't real ale"? No, it...