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Hobgoblin Magic Beans 14 years 9 months ago #1

I had to have a look myself (and satisfy Adam's curiosity).

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There's about 10 of these in the keg, and are just like soggy little bags full of beige mush. What do they do specifically ?

Hobgoblin Magic Beans 14 years 9 months ago #2

They contain the yeast so it's not floating around in the beer. Marston's claim that they're permeable enough to actually condition the beer and therefore qualify it as Real Ale.

Hobgoblin Magic Beans 14 years 9 months ago #3

They're yeast beads, developed by Marstons and called fastcask

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Hobgoblin Magic Beans 14 years 9 months ago #4

Well it certainly makes economic sense, as we loose 2-3 litres of beer per cask at the moment. Thats about 5% of evey cask, all that good beer down the drain. <!-- s:evil: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_evil.gif" alt=":evil:" title="Evil or Very Mad" /><!-- s:evil: -->

Hobgoblin Magic Beans 14 years 9 months ago #5

Thanks for the picture!

Until these become commercially available (and I doubt they ever will), Danstar has released a specific cask/ bottle conditioning strain that's supposed to be highly flocculating and form a tight "sticky" layer at the bottom of the bottle/ cask and should reduce losses.

It could certainly reduce beer losses in casks...


Adam

Hobgoblin Magic Beans 14 years 9 months ago #6

I get the impression Marstons want to commercialise this, so I wouldn't rule out seeing more of it.
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