Smooth Hoperator – 8 Pint Mini-Cask

Description

Enjoy a 5 litre mini-cask of Smooth Hoperator… our popular NEIPA.

This is our new New England IPA – Smooth Hoperator – (4.8% ABV) giving a mouth watering tropical juicy sensation after being dry-hopped with Simcoe, mosaic and citra. Also, one of our Vegan beers.

This is collection only from our Brewery & Taproom – please note we cannot deliver Mini-Casks.

Our 5 litre mini-casks are great for small gatherings and feature a built in tap for pouring around 9 pints of our finest beer. It contains live beer so requires venting and settling for minimum of 24 hours before serving.

Our mini-casks may contain sediment. Leave keg to settle for at least 24 hours before pouring and see our additional tips for maximising the enjoyment of your beer.

Our mini-cask beer is cask conditioned (real ale) which means that:

• It is live beer, we put it into the mini-casks with active yeast still present.

• It can be hazy, and not crystal clear like you would expect a pint of lager to be.

• It isn’t ‘fizzy’ like a keg beer but should have a gentle sparkle.

Here are some steps to the perfect pour:-

KEEP IT COOL – Ideally, cask beer is kept between 12-14 degrees. It is not recommended to keep the beer fridge cold, most fridges sit at about 4 degrees these cold temperatures will cause the live yeast in the beer to go dormant and will result in your beer being flat. We suggest trying to find a cool corner of the house and keep it there.

LET IT SETTLE- The mini-casks have yeast in them (just like our 39Litre casks we send to pubs) which although it does lovely things to the beer it is not that nice to drink. You need to let a cask settle for at least 24 hours before pouring. Please do not move it after you have let it settle or you will need to start all over again. So, let it settle in the same place you want to have it pouring.

VENT IT- Once you have let it settle you now need to vent the cask, to do this, pull up the red ring-pull on top and turn the ventilation tap one quarter in the direction of the arrow. Let sit for another 30min.

POUR IT- Being careful not to disturb the cask pull out the dispensing tap on the front and turn (in direction of arrow) to pour. TOP TIP- Pour the beer from a height into the glass if you want to get more head on your glass.

CLOSE IT UP- Once your glass is full make sure to close the ventilation tap on the top and the dispensing tap on the front so that no oxygen can get into the cask.

FINISH IT OFF- Once your cask is nearly empty you will start to see sediment appearing in your glass, this is the yeast that you let settle to the bottom, once this starts to happen you have reached the end. It is normal to still have a little beer in the bottom, but this is best washed away.

If you have any issues or questions then please email us at info@titseybrewingco.com