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Pubs that serve Cask ale.

  • 23-08-2018 7:50pm
    #1
    demanufactured
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    Where in Ireland can you get ale pulled from a cask?

    I live in athlone btw so I'm fairly central.


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  • #2
    irish_goat
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    Not sure about Athlone but there's a few places in Dublin including, Against the Grain, The Brewdock, The Black Sheep, Porterhouse Central and Porterhouse Temple Bar. Basically, any Galway Bay or Porterhouse bar is a good bet for a handpump. Wetherspoons as well, of course.


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    RasTa
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    Spoons has the best


  • #4
    demanufactured
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    Not sure about Athlone but there's a few places in Dublin including, Against the Grain, The Brewdock, The Black Sheep, Porterhouse Central and Porterhouse Temple Bar. Basically, any Galway Bay or Porterhouse bar is a good bet for a handpump. Wetherspoons as well, of course.

    Asked in the Oslo last week, no cask ales.


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    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
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    Underdog has cask pints for a fiver, new cask every friday


  • #6
    blueshed
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    Sweetmans also have cask, 2 pumps I think.

    Palace Bar has 1.

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  • #7
    BeerNut
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    blueshed wrote: »
    Palace Bar has 1.
    Last I heard this was gone.

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  • #8
    Losty Dublin
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    Where in Ireland can you get ale pulled from a cask?

    I live in athlone btw so I'm fairly central.

    There is a new bar opening in Athlone soon that may well have a hand pump.


  • #9
    oblivious
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    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    There is a new bar opening in Athlone soon that may well have a hand pump.


    Deadcenter brewing?


  • #10
    OldMrBrennan83
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    What's the difference? Is the one where they pump the handle forward and back, and does that mean the drink isn't fizzy?


  • #11
    Losty Dublin
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    oblivious wrote: »
    Deadcenter brewing?

    He's hardcore :)


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  • #12
    the beer revolu
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    Patww79 wrote: »
    , and does that mean the drink isn't fizzy?

    Pretty much.
    There should be a gentle carbonation from cask conditioning (additional fermentation in the cask) but it's not going to be fizzy like most keg beers.

    Also cask ale should be served at cellar temperature, so cool rather that chilled.

    The same beer can taste and feel quite different on cask and keg.

    Ignorant people will tell you that cask beer is warm and flat. They don't know what they are talking about.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Pretty much.
    There should be a gentle carbonation from cask conditioning (additional fermentation in the cask) but it's not going to be fizzy like most keg beers.

    Also cask ale should be served at cellar temperature, so cool rather that chilled.

    The same beer can taste and feel quite different on cask and keg.

    Ignorant people will tell you that cask beer is warm and flat. They don't know what they are talking about.

    Cheers. I don't think I've ever had it then. Wouldn't mind trying though as the best ciders I've ever had have been very lightly carbonated and pumped like that.


  • #14
    Sue de Nimes
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    Sorry to necro this thread. I've been looking for cask beers for a while now without any real. Success, I've tried a load of places listed above and come up blank apart from spoons.

    Anyone able to share the names of any pubs in Ireland serving "real ale"



  • #15
    BeerNut
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    Right now, The Porterhouse in Temple Bar and Bierhaus in Cork are serving Sitric pale ale by Hopkins & Hopkins on cask, and it's very nice. The Black Sheep in Dublin had West Kerry's Uncle Columb mild on cask last weekend but that seems to be gone from their tap list now. Beyond that, it's Wetherspoons.

    The Black Sheep occasionally has Galway Bay Brewery beers on cask but I'm told these aren't real ale, just bright beer run through a handpump.

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