Keep Cask Alive (The Craft Beer Channel)
Photo credit: Amelia Claudia
The first of a new YouTube series of 'Keep Cask Alive' from the Craft Beer Channel. Click the title to see links to the videos. The Craft Beer Channel have also started a petition to recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage. Click this link to sign the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/716686
Episode 1: History of Tetley; Timothy Taylor; Burton Union sets at Thornbridge.
Episode 2: The Midlands, one of the heartlands of cask. Black Country bitters; Fullers, the story of ESB, the parti-gyle method; History of Shepherd Neame.
Episode 3: The journey of malt and hops from field to glass. The ecosystem that links farms and brewers; the malting process; the hop harvest; Five Points Brewery and green hop beers.
Episode 4: Innovation in hops by Charles Faram, cross-breeding, diverse flavours; Harveys Brewery, how they are keeping cask relevant; brewery tour with Miles Jenner; their sponsorship of Lewes FC and Brighton & Hove Albion (the world's largest cask ale pub on matchdays!)
Episode 5: the perfect pour - cask v Guinness; how brewers brew clear beer - the history and production of isinglass; discussion about sparklers - an experiment: sparkler v no sparkler, at the Old Mitre.
Episode 6: British pub culture. Exploring how pubs are so important in local and national history and community.
Episode 7: The campaign to recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Links:
ep.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8LiB6yvlx4
ep.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goZsSZPVg_0
ep.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVi7YzXCR0
ep.4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnogGqLTzX4
ep.5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQop7DMVec