Guide to 2022 Atlanta Cask Ale Tasting
“Some 17 decades ago, when I started off promoting cask ale in Atlanta and commenced the Cask Ale Tasting, brewers truly weren’t into it at all,” Ogletree remembered. “They had no thought how to do it or what supplies and equipment were being wanted. But they have been really prepared to study.”
The first tasting was held at SweetWater Brewing in 2005 with 15 casks and entries from Atlanta Brewing, 5 Seasons, Max Lager’s, and quite a few other breweries. Terrapin won to start with area with its Wake-N-Bake on Wood coffee oatmeal Imperial stout.
“A couple yrs soon after that, cask ales started having really preferred,” Ogletree explained. “They’d throw it up on the bar and have someone faucet it and offer out the cask in one night time. And then the new wave of craft beer arrived in, and every person wanted hazy-juicy IPAs and pastry stouts, and cask was neglected a bit.”
The great information is that above the earlier handful of years, classic cask styles have built a comeback.
This year’s Cask Ale Tasting will attribute approximately 60 cask-conditioned ales, lagers and meads from the likes of Creature Comforts, Superior Term, Midway Crooks, Tiny Cottage and Monday Evening.
A lot more than 50 percent the entries are traditional styles, Ogletree mentioned. “And more than 50 percent of people are just solid English models, which helps make me genuinely happy,” he additional.
Possibly the most important shot in the arm for cask beer in Atlanta came about in summer months 2021 when Brick Retail outlet Pub reimagined its cozy mezzanine as the Cask Bar. It features four hand-pumped beer engines for pulling pints, a stunning bar best fashioned from pieces of the Brick Store’s initial wooden flooring and several significant-tops for accumulating.
“They’ve inspired neighborhood breweries like Wild Heaven, Three Taverns and New Realm to do excellent cask ales for the pub, and I assume that is gotten all those breweries much more interested in undertaking cask ales for their taprooms,” Ogeltree said. “Creature Comforts set up a hand pump at their taproom bar, and now they have a cask ale on just about every one day.”
Function
17th Yearly Cask Ale Tasting. 2:30-6 p.m. Jan. 21. $48. Daring Monk Brewing, 1737 Ellsworth Industrial Blvd. NW, Atlanta. 404-390-3288, boldmonkbrewingco.com.
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