On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:26:09 +0100, "Dave Croft"
<dave.croft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>"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!
Other breweries used the piston method of dispense to serve real ale
too [1] - you always had to ask whether it was cask or keg (early
70's).
>A few times the glass tube exploded soaking everyone near the bar.
Wow! Never saw that happen.
>I just tried to find a picture of the pump with no success. Does anyone
know of a picture please?
No, sorry.
And, not here, but the Czechs have started using a similar system to
dispense real beer [1], in some pubs in Prague and (to my certain
knowledge) Brno. Excellent move, IMO.
[1] Stones (Sheffield) for one.
[2] Before the Velvet Revolution, no Czech pubs served fizzy beer. It
was all natural beer, and served by air pressure, as it used to be in
Scotland. Wonderful stuff, and not a fizz in sight!
Now, you can get it in a tank pub.
Shame it's mostly Pilsner Urquell, a shadow of it's former self.
--
Regards
Mike
mikedotroebuckatgmxdotnet
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