Cask beer

[auralabuse]

Just wondering what you all use to cask condition beer and where you actually picked up the cask from?

[Tom]

Cask from CASK CASK CASK on Twitter! (AKA Cara or Declan)

Very happy with my plastic cask, but I do struggle (yes, even me) with a full firkin.

[auralabuse]

Cask from CASK CASK CASK on Twitter! (AKA Cara or Declan)

Very happy with my plastic cask, but I do struggle (yes, even me) with a full firkin.

CARA I know,  Declan is on here?

[johnrm]

He is she, she is he.

[CARA]

Yerp. You want cask? I got cask? I do you nice price nice price.

[CARA]

Faive dorrahh

[CARA]

Cask from CASK CASK CASK on Twitter! (AKA Cara or Declan)

Very happy with my plastic cask, but I do struggle (yes, even me) with a full firkin.

I'm Cask Monster now!

[Tom]

Aye, Il Tubo was about to point that out, I think.

[cruiscinlan]

Very happy with my plastic cask, but I do struggle (yes, even me) with a full firkin.

How do you manage for cleaning them?  Any advantage over a corny keg?

[Tom]

You can't get your hand into a cask, like you can a corny, but I just use a load of warm VWP or something, and treat it like my FVs. Actually, that's not true, as I scrub the hell out of my FVs, and I can't with a cask. Anyway. having only used it a couple of times (and only twice successfully), my advice is DON'T overprime, keep at cellar temperature, and use some sort of bungee strap device to help stop the bung bursting out. POP! Happened more than once and it WILL wake the missus.

The plastic casks come with a screw-in shive, which are cheap or free from the manufacturer of the casks. Very nice blokes. I bored out the spile hole and wedged in some 3/8" pipe, to which I added an on-off valve. That way I have artificial venting, and I can also top up with gas, if necessary. DEAD simple. If you have a beer engine, a cask is the next logical step.

[irish_goat]

I was in a put over the weekend that has a very unusual cask dispensing system. Beer is sucked out by a gas driven reciprocating pump to keep the real ale people happy.

Alfie's seemed to have something similar. I'm sure CARA knows the craic with them.

As for cleaning I know professional breweries tend to soak their used casks in hot water and caustic.

[CARA]

Flojet?