but pub casks draw from the bottom as well..Hogarth wrote: I've actually heard a theory that drawing from the surface gives you better beer anyway because it'll be ever so slightly oxygenated (since there's always a bit of oxygen in the headspace) and it's just enough to give it that 'pub' taste.
i vent my kegs as casks before hooking up to the beer engine, and if i then take a pint or two they're lively and perhaps a little sharp with volatiles, after a day or two they have lost the volatiles and perhaps get slightly oxidised and it smooths them off beautiful for drinking, same as pub style. drawing from the bottom.
canẗ argue that the first pint is always clear though
