Beer Club Buys Engine

Real Ale is a reference to naturally carbonated beer fresh from the cask. To get real ale ready requires some effort. The final product is pumped--not pushed with CO2, as in regular beer taps--with a beer engine, which the young lass above is preparing to yank on. It takes a few pumps and some wait time to pour a perfect pint.

Credit for saving real ale and beer engines and everything that goes with it can be laid at the feet of CAMRA. The lore and love of real ale is explored in this short polemic at the Beer Advocate.

Now, our homebrew club is a great club, and we hold our meetings at Ice Harbor Brewing Company, a local brewpub. They have a cask-conditioned beer every Tuesday, but carbonated and pushed by CO2, as per regular American beer. To say thanks for hosting us for our meetings and special functions (like megabrews on their equipment), we bought them a beer engine. It might just be for us, but I hope they take the hint.

Pump me a beer baby!