"Quarkstorm":1sxyf7yt wrote: Did the rules stipulate that the brewery had to produce cask ale year round? If brewers who don't normally produce cask ale were prepared to make a festival edition this should, in my view, have been accepted.
Camra are of course free to make their own rules and I'm all in favour of a bit of pressure in favour of conditioned beer. I understand the point about the economics of cask beer in a pub environment, but there is no excuse for the number of microbreweries selling filtererd pasteurised bottled ale.[/quote:1sxyf7yt]
Yes, as far as I know CAMRA allow beer which is usually not cask conditioned, as long as it's in that form for the festival. As far as I know, Hooker has shown up cask conditioned at a few festivals across the water.
I wholeheartedly agree with that statement.
