Posted by admin | Posted in Beer Signs | Posted on 15-08-2009
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Is Guiness a 'Real Ale' or just a keg beer like John Smiths in which case why do pubs charge a premium price?
It's a Keg ale - in fact it was the first Nitrokeg.
Before other beers started to be served using a Nitrogen/CO2 mix to provide thick heads Guinness used to come in oversized kegs with its own nitrogen source built in - and had to have a different connector to other kegs.
These days, as most pubs have a mixed gas dispense system built into them they come in normal kegs.
It used to be real fun watching someone who didn't know what they were doing try to change a Guinness barrel ................. If you connected the gas up before the beer, or tried to disconnect the beer before disconnecting the gas, a "Guinness Shower" was almost certain when the beer line was connected/disconnected.
PS: It is no more expensive to make than proper stouts, in fact as they can buy ingredients in bulk, and mass produce it, it is cheaper to make than it is in a micro brewery.
It was also NOT generally considered a Real Ale until 1993, that was just the bottled versions (for which Corvato is correct,they were Real Ale until 1993)
No draught beer, filtered and served under gas pressure, is Real Ale.
The only time Draught Guinness was Real Ale was pre keg production, when the method of getting the head on it was to have 2 barrels on the bar, one full of beer that had finished fermenting, and another that wasn't quite finished ..... Mixing the two was what gave the head.
EDIT: Corvato: Shame that this question wasn't about Cantillion beer, then you could have used an article from the Summer 2002 edition of Ale as a reference ..... http://www.cam.net.uk/camra/ale/307/cantillon.html .... YES I am the Weatherman referred to
EDIT: Magpie - Where have I said it is and isn't a Real Ale.
Keg Guinness has NEVER beer real ale - CLEARLY STATED.
Once they went away from the double barrel system of dispense the only "Real Ale" Guinness available was bottled -CLEARLY STATED
Since 1993 that bottled beer has no longer been Real Ale - AGAIN CLEARLY STATED
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