KeyCask

Anyone used this? I see it on the KeyKeg website but as far as I can tell it is identical to the regular kegs. Is this just different branding to appease some in the UK market? they seem to be very cryptic about it. We’ve been having good luck with the slimline kegs for our sour beers but I’m wondering what we could get out of these.

Not sure, we mainly use take keykegs from brewers and we put some of them on cask though it can be a bit of a faff

Same thing. If you condition beer in the KeyKeg/Cask and then dispense it without any extraneous gas touching the beer, it complies with CAMRA’s definition of Real Ale.

What I don’t understand is how you can then compress the inner bag without disturbing the sediment.

Originally posted by InvalidStout
Same thing. If you condition beer in the KeyKeg/Cask and then dispense it without any extraneous gas touching the beer, it complies with CAMRA’s definition of Real Ale.

What I don’t understand is how you can then compress the inner bag without disturbing the sediment.

What De Struise does (Danko can correct me if I’m wrong) in their "Real Ale" versions of their beers in order to comply with CAMRA’s requirements when using KeyKegs for cask beers is to transfer it to kegs before the beer ferments out completely (thus creating carbonation in the keg). They use nitrous oxide instead of carbon dioxide to create the pressure gradient for transferring so no gas is taken up by the liquid (NO2 is a lot less soluble in liquid).