Kev888
Regular.
I like casks, and understand their use with a direct/gravity tap, and/or for conditioning with air breathers, and/or with longer beer lines to a beer engine. Great.
BUT a great many casks are used not just with longer lines but also with a CO2 feed... by this point it 'seems' (to me) like their potential advantages are not really in play any more and instead they're being used in the kind of way that a modern beer keg/barrel is probably much better designed to allow..
AFAIK you don't 'need' to use carbonation-changing CO2 pressures to serve from a modern keg (flo-jet pumps can be used to cope with long lines if needed) and I don't happen to know of any reason why you can't prime naturally in kegs just as you would in a cask... I'm probably missing something though, does anyone know the advantages of still using casks rather than kegs in this particular way?
Cheers
kev
BUT a great many casks are used not just with longer lines but also with a CO2 feed... by this point it 'seems' (to me) like their potential advantages are not really in play any more and instead they're being used in the kind of way that a modern beer keg/barrel is probably much better designed to allow..
AFAIK you don't 'need' to use carbonation-changing CO2 pressures to serve from a modern keg (flo-jet pumps can be used to cope with long lines if needed) and I don't happen to know of any reason why you can't prime naturally in kegs just as you would in a cask... I'm probably missing something though, does anyone know the advantages of still using casks rather than kegs in this particular way?
Cheers
kev