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"TheBeerNut":1h30ib5x wrote: Thread jack!

Can we please stop using "draught" to mean keg, as opposed to cask? Cask and keg are both forms of draught -- they are both drawn from barrels through a tap. The "draught vs. cask" distinction seems to be uniquely Irish, like "Stephen[b:1h30ib5x]s's[/b:1h30ib5x] Day", and it's time a stop was put to it before it goes any further.
/edit: just saw Reuben's post <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> It's not pedantic it's just FACT. <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| -->

In other news, keg Helvick will be in Dublin in the New Year. Can't wait to find out how it's different from the cask and bottles, which themselves are quite different from each other, IMO.[/quote:1h30ib5x]

Just to continue this geeky little aside for a moment longer... Etymologically, of course, 'draught' means pull (as in beer drawn through the lines), so arguably it should apply to cask beer only as keg beer is pushed through the lines by CO2. Of course, that's not how people use it now.

Anyhow, very happy to see the change and hope it means we'll be seeing Dungarvan beers more widely available in the future.

&amp;quot;upsidedowna&amp;quot;:uxlau7rt wrote: Etymologically, of course, 'draught' means pull (as in beer drawn through the lines), so arguably it should apply to cask beer only as keg beer is pushed through the lines by CO2.[/quote:uxlau7rt]Heh-heh. Indeed. Next person who uses "draught" to mean keg dispense gets booted off the site.