Your good fortune is Harveys. My good fortune is Burning Sky in Firle. As Brewers go, Mark Tranter is a genius, if he were a footballer he'd be world class. He pushes boundaries, breaks rules and works extremely hard to produce some of the best beers this country has to offer. I urge you to get...
Perhaps but it's really is all about the taste for me rather than tradition, old men's clubs & dull committees. From the previous posted link:
Over to Tony Naylor again to provide the final word;
‘Real ale's biggest enemy? British brewers who flood the market with dull, steady, fundamentally...
Did you get this off the CAMRA website? True of mass produced cooking larger but not most kegged Ale. This is 2014 not the 70's. Read this if you'd like to know about modern brewing techniques:
http://www.brewdog.com/blog-article/craft-beer-v-real-ale
Yes but you need someone who cares and knows what they're doing to produce a decent pint at the place of purchase. Instead, you could do your secondary fermentation in the brewery if you were to embrace the technology but each to their own. In the end we all like what we like, these debates tend...
No. It's very much a bad thing. If you want your Ale to taste good without all this 'looking after it' rubbish, you put it in a keg. If Harveys could supply their Ale in kegs to the Amex it would taste consistent (obviously they'd need 21st century techniques & know how to make it taste nice but...
Profoundly overrated. The brewery is decades behind modern ones in terms of equipment, knowledge, hunger, passion, progression, experimentation and most importantly of all - taste. Compare a pint of Harvey's with a pint of Burning Sky Arise if you want to know what I mean.