What is a cask pump?
A Beer Engine, also known as a hand pump, is a uniquely British dispensing device that is specifically appropriate for traditional cask-conditioned ales. The beer engine is a piston pump that allows the casks to be kept in a cooler cellar below the bar and the beer to be pulled or drawn up to the bar.
What is a beer pump?
Beer pumps are designed for dispensing draft beer from a keg, cask or brew kettle through both long or short, vertical or horizontal line runs while maintaining the brewers recommended applied pressure on the beer.
What is difference between cask and keg?
Casks have a curved shape designed to help any sediment settle at the bottom, while kegs are normally straighter with a single opening valve and an extractor or spear running through the middle. Both typically have rolling rings to aid movement.
What is cask beer?
Cask ale, also known as cask-conditioned beer or ‘real’ ale, is beer that undergoes secondary fermentation in the barrel. Brewers of cask ale don’t interfere with it, they don’t filter it and they don’t pasteurise it.
How do cask ale pumps work?
The principle of operation is simple – an airtight chamber sits between the line from the cask and the pump’s nozzle. A piston in the chamber is connected to the pump’s handle. When the server pulls the handle, the piston is pulled up, drawing beer into the chamber via a one-way valve.
What are beer pumps called?
beer engine
A beer engine is a device for pumping beer from a cask, usually located in a pub’s cellar.
Is cask or keg better?
First, it’s best to explain exactly what the differences are between the two. In a nutshell, casked beer tends to be less fizzy and served at 11-13°C through a handpull, whereas kegged beer is usually fizzier and served at a cooler temperature, generally between 2-8°C through a beer font.
How many pints are in a cask?
72 Pints
Cask of Beer (72 Pints)
How does a cask work?
This is literally a faucet that is hammered into the cask through the keystone (hence the term tapping a keg). Once tapped, the beer is dispensed by gravity. As the beer flows, air is allowed to enter through the spile (a small wooden peg used to control the flow of air into, and carbon dioxide out of a cask).
How do you use a beer cask?
The method of dispensing beer from the cask into the glass can vary and sometimes reflects regional tastes. The most common way to serve cask conditioned beer is by the use of a beer engine, a hand-operated hydraulic pump, that draws beer from a cask in the cellar up to the bar.
What is a cask engine?
The Cask Ale beer engine A beer engine is a manual device used to siphon beer from a cask. Because it requires a bartender to literally pull the beer through the beer line, beer engines are also referred to as handpulls. The mechanics of a beer engine are quite simple.