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Cask beer management is easy peasy:

1. Have a supplier/cellarman/manager that knows what they are doing (ie. making the stuff in the first place, Stillage and storing temperature and tapping. Oh!!! and BTW: Line cleaning/pump cleaning/sanitation/Dispensing glasses quality and cleanliness etc.)

2. Have bar staff who have been trained/informed/told how to pull the stuff, what it [u:1obfd6h0]should[/u:1obfd6h0] taste like when good and to also recognize when the cask is going off.

3. Sell the stuff quickly! or F**k Camera use a cask breather and cool cask/lines/cellar like Keg

A while back in Messrs (before the NAMA lark) I was there on a Thursday and they just tapped a cask of their APA and it was sublime... anyhow, I went back in the following Tuesday and asked for a pint of it. It was horrific, I asked was that the same cask from last Thursday and was told "yes, but that shouldn't make a difference as a cask should last 10 to 12 days" <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: -->

Glad to report the dry hopped Metalman at The Brew Dock last night was delicious!

&amp;quot;garthicus&amp;quot;:2mrlo0wq wrote: It was horrific, I asked was that the same cask from last Thursday and was told "yes, but that shouldn't make a difference as a cask should last 10 to 12 days" ![/quote:2mrlo0wq]

For the uninitiated, how long should cask last?

&amp;quot;KeeganAles&amp;quot;:3ui0obwz wrote:

&amp;quot;garthicus&amp;quot;:3ui0obwz wrote: It was horrific, I asked was that the same cask from last Thursday and was told "yes, but that shouldn't make a difference as a cask should last 10 to 12 days" ![/quote:3ui0obwz]

For the uninitiated, how long should cask last?[/quote:3ui0obwz]

You'll start to see a marked decline in quality after 4 days. After 12 days you'll be getting a lovely pint of vinegar

10 to 12 days on a breather should be fine, I'd have thought. 3 to 4 tends to be what people say about non-breathered beer.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:1npw0x7z wrote: 10 to 12 days on a breather should be fine, I'd have thought. 3 to 4 tends to be what people say about non-breathered beer.[/quote:1npw0x7z]
Tbf Beamish ( before the buy out) wouldn't leave a keg of nitro stout in a bar for more than seven days. Even with a breather on a cask, I'd be wary after a weekend