Efficiency and Yield Up

[Steve SPF]

Not just the commercial brewers. There's not many late teen, early 20s shift managers in busy pubs that have the skills and/or patience to treat a cask properly. This would have to be a big reason for the shift to kegs in the 70s/80s.

I'm sure you're right and it's very true now, we get served some terrible beer sometimes. I was in my (very) early 20s back then though and we used to get through 20 hogsheads of Boddington's a week and our beer, of course, was sublime!

 

[Steve SPF]

Steve SPF, we are going to visit republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland in March 2020, do you have some places we should not miss?

I'm a little ashamed to say that I've never been to Ireland. I will visit the North one day because it was such a part of my younger days news wise. There's not much of a beer scene though, politics is still getting in the way.

Scotland I know a little and personally I would want to see Kircudbright, a literary town and I'm a big fan of the written word. Some of the islands up the West Coast look beautiful and that's where the distilleries seem to be; definitely worth a look.

I would also say Edinburgh, possibly my favourite British city; so much history there. The Grassmarket where Burke & Hare hung out is an interesting place but the old parts of the city are all just shot through with history. Edinburgh for sure; great city.

 

[FrostyBeach]

Thank you very much.