"Paul Sherwin" <bogus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:30:23 +0200, The Submarine Captain wrote:
>
>> Bill Hewitt a écrit :
>>> I was intrigued, in Amsterdam, to see a Hoegarden truck pull up and
>>> run, a power cable and a hose into each pub to deliver beer. How does
>>> this work ? Do they refill kegs or is it dispenced from a refilable
>>> tank. I know it's not real beer, but, having never seen beer delivered
>>> to a pub by hose before how it is done.
>> Tanks in the pub's cellars, usually with a big plastic pouch in them.
>> The beer is pumped from the truck into the pouch, and then from the
tank
>> to the glass.
> This was quite common practice in British pubs and clubs in the 60s and
> 70s, not with cask conditioned beer (obviously) but with filtered but
> unpasteurised bright beer. I used to drink this stuff in a Daven****ts
pub
> in Northfield, Birmingham in the late 70s (there was nothing better
> available). Paul
My local Greenalls pub in the late 60,s supplied filtered unpressurised
beer by tanker into
a plastic removable liner inside a stainless steel tanks with a removable
lid.
Compressed Air was pumped into the tank to squeeze the bag to give
delivery pressure.
The beer was delivered by a glass tube with a piston pushed left & right
by the delivery pressure.
Not like real ale but better than fizz!
A few times the glass tube exploded soaking everyone near the bar.
I just tried to find a picture of the pump with no success. Does anyone
know of a picture please?
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Dave Croft
Warrington
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