Press the red button on the tap to dispense beer into your favourite glass – it will be quite powerful at first, but slow down quickly.Pull the tap out, away from the body of the mini-cask, until it stops.Rotate the tap (front) in the direction of arrows to the horizontal position.While you’re thinking about mini-casks, be sure to check out Fyne Ales Mini-Cask Club, our cask-at-home members club where we send two mini-casks a month to your home for just £40! All our year-round beers (Jarl, Highlander, Hurricane Jack, Avalanche, Vital Spark) are not designed to be hazy. If you’re not sure which beers are intentionally hazy – check the product page which will usually give you a good idea of the style of the beer. This means that even when all the yeast has settled to the bottom of the mini-cask, there will still be some soft haze to the beer – this is perfectly normal and the beer is completely fine to drink. Some mini-cask beers are brewed with a combination of hops that mean it’s intentionally hazy. Once the yeast has settled, follow the instructions on the back of the mini-cask (or below) and enjoy your perfect cask beer at home, remembering to leave the last half pint in the bottom (as that’s where all the yeast will have settled), and using within three days of opening Once you have opened the mini-cask for the first time, it will slowly lose carbonation as the fizz escapes (through the vent or through pouring), so the quicker your drink the mini-cask (responsibly), the better it will be.
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During the colder months, you may find you get a little more conditioning in the beer if it’s kept at 10-12☌ for a few days before opening, but make sure that if you’re moving the beer somewhere cooler between conditioning and drinking, that you give it the full 24 hours to settle again. Most of the conditioning takes place in the time between filling up the casks at the brewery and arriving on your doorstep, but because of the live yeast, they require at least 24 hours to allow the yeast to settle to the bottom of the cask before opening. Mini-casks are not pre-carbonated, but instead are packaged with live yeast which continues to gently ferment the beer inside the cask, creating a soft fizz this process is known as conditioning. The only exception to this may be small-batch specials, which are not filled as regularly and may have shorter best before dates – we will endeavour to list this on the product page of the online shop. Whatever you choose, mini-casks and kegs should have at least six weeks of shelf life on them when they arrive at your door (check the sticker on the bottom for exact dates), so if you’re planning ahead, don’t worry about ordering too early – just keep them somewhere cool and dark until you want to use them. And some of our beers taste better a bit colder and a bit more fizzy – which is why we also offer mini-kegs of filtered, carbonated beers. Some of our classics lend themselves to the soft carbonation that comes with conditioning on live yeasts, which is why we fill our mini-casks in the exact same way as we fill full-size casks for pubs. In the same way that we have beers that we only sell in cask (Avalanche, Hurricane Jack, Highlander etc) and some beers we only sell in keg (Fyne Lager, Workbench and Easy Trail), we offer both mini-casks and mini-kegs depending on which format best suits the beer. Mini-kegs are filled with five litres of filtered, pre-carbonated beer, so they require less time to settle, but they also need to be consumed a lot quicker once opened to enjoy the beer at its best. Mini-casks are small versions of the 9-gallon casks we send to pubs, filled exactly the same way with the same beer and live yeasts that give it a soft carbonation (or ‘conditioning’) to the beer. On the outside, mini-casks and mini-kegs are the same – we use the same recyclable five-litre vessel for both, but the difference lies in how we process the beer that we put inside the big cans. What’s the difference between mini-cask and mini-keg? We’ve put together this wee blog to help clear things up in terms of what we do and how we package our beers, so you know what to look for when you’re ordering – keep in mind that other breweries might have slightly different definitions – this is our guide of what to expect when ordering from Fyne Ales online shop. Mini-casks and mini-kegs have been one of the most popular ways to enjoy beer at home in 2020, but what is a mini-cask, and is it different to a mini-keg?
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