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Could anyone with more knowledge than me (a big group) tell me how this works.

If a publican here buys cask, they buy 1 at a time due to sales / shelf life. They sell it while still fresh, everyone is happy. Next week they buy a different cask beer and change the pump clip and off they go again.

With keg how does the publican get around the different heads on kegs? Is brewery A happy to sell one keg at a time? If there is a spare set of lines which was installed by another brewery can they object to their lines being used for a competitors beer?

Going to try and convince a publican to take the leap away from the usual suspects.

Most craft beer pubs have their own lines installed as no brewery, micro or macro, is going to install lines, at a cost, if you're only putting their beer on for a week.

A micro will only install a line for a pub if they know they're going to be on permanently.

Alternatively, depending on which macro it is, the publican can just drop one of their beers and switch to craft. The macro may or may not take the line out, depends on how lazy the maintenance guy is really. Once a publican decides to drop a beer the macro may leave the line in as a gesture of good will as they know he/she will just replace it anyway.

Cremin & Radley (based in Midleton)

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will supply handpull pumps and lines suitable for cask. Probably others too.