tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post4504675702749017985..comments2024-01-29T10:16:00.995+00:00Comments on CALLED TO THE BAR : Steam beerAdrian Tierney-Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-3245085567128683512013-04-03T11:51:42.173+01:002013-04-03T11:51:42.173+01:00Hi Ron, I’ve always like cask beer, but craft beer...Hi Ron, I’ve always like cask beer, but craft beer doesn’t worry me at all, though I have to smile when I hear evangelists denouncing industrial beer, brewing is an industrial process last time I looked.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-75511332996342482892013-04-03T10:04:20.713+01:002013-04-03T10:04:20.713+01:00I'll add that I equally dislike the term "...I'll add that I equally dislike the term "real ale" preferring "cask-conditioned".Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-81656472984924629562013-04-03T10:02:25.863+01:002013-04-03T10:02:25.863+01:00Didn't realise I was toeing the line by refusi...Didn't realise I was toeing the line by refusing to use that ridiculous phrase "craft beer". It's misleading, too, as much "craft beer" is actually made in shiny hi-tech factories.<br /><br />I've nothing against the beers themselves, but the term "craft beer" is bullshit.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-85237173865590813602013-04-03T08:19:58.599+01:002013-04-03T08:19:58.599+01:00Good idea, I’ll try it next time I review a pub ca...Good idea, I’ll try it next time I review a pub called Mrs Windsor’s Arms — seriously though, house style is about consistency, good grammar, maintaining standards rather than how you feel ideologically or emotionally about something. I know I am not alone amongst CAMRA beer writers in feeling this way.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-44900697435007814312013-04-02T22:43:59.062+01:002013-04-02T22:43:59.062+01:00If you described the Queen as “Mrs Windsor” or “th...If you described the Queen as “Mrs Windsor” or “the so-called Queen” in the Telegraph it would be edited out, and you wouldn’t expect that it wouldn’t be. Surely every publication can have a line and a house style? Barmhttp://refreshingbeer.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-28496255535471588712013-04-02T17:15:55.045+01:002013-04-02T17:15:55.045+01:00Phil please don’t get the impression that I am ant...Phil please don’t get the impression that I am anti-CAMRA as I have been accused of recently (I’m a member for heaven’s sake) but I want choice and there is an element of fanaticism on both sides — incidentally I had a half of Bath Ales Dark on keg this lunchtime in Bath and then a pint of their Rare Hare on cask; I prefered the Dark, and at the moment I have a half of Wild Beer’s Fresh to hand, have only had it on keg before, I think it is really superb in cask. I think the motion at the CAMRA agm is a bit of a tub-thumper and as someone who writes in Beer and for CAMRA Books (currently) I find the idea of what words I can use a bit dictatorial.Adrian Tierney-Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421802854011395300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-42294528895084905782013-04-02T16:00:37.017+01:002013-04-02T16:00:37.017+01:00while all this agonising is going on more and more...<i>while all this agonising is going on more and more great beer is being made and drinkers are not worrying what container it arrives in</i><br /><br />I don't like keg beers because I find them too cold, too fizzy and lacking in the depth of flavour equivalent beers have on cask. I've tried keg beers from Magic Rock, BrewDog and Red Willow, among others - brewers whose cask beers have consistently blown me away - and never been impressed.<br /><br />I'm not saying they shouldn't be brewed - some people like them, and they can fill their boots, it's no skin off my nose. But when people prefer cask it's not (necessarily) just a matter of prejudice or ideology - there is a real difference in the beers themselves.Philhttp://ohgoodale.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3076725205410370436.post-65522440539991165842013-04-02T13:15:17.425+01:002013-04-02T13:15:17.425+01:00Tankards at dawn!Tankards at dawn!Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.com