Unlike new production breweries, quite a few of the new generation of brewpubs didn't serve cask, instead opting to sell their beer under CO2 pressure. Not sure why you would do that, as you'd miss out on support and promotion from CAMRA.
Fighting Cocks
Corby Glen,
Lincolnshire.
Founded: 1975
Closed: 1983
Tied houses: 1
One of the very earliest new breweries. Unfortunately, they brewed no cask beer. Which means I have no idea what they brewed. And is a reason why I never visited it. I’d guess that they probably brewed an Ordinary Bitter.
Fox & Hounds
Stottesdon,
Shropshire.
Founded: 1979
Closed: 1999
Tied houses: 1
A former homebrew pub which started up again in he late 1970s. Evidently, a bit of a timewarp place. Now, sadly, closed.
| beer | style | format | OG | description |
| Dasher Downing's Draughtt | Pale Ale | draught | 1040 |
Ma Pardoes's Old Swan
Neherton,
West Midlands.
Founded: 1800
Closed: still open
Tied houses: 2
Another one of the surviving homebrew pubs. After Ma Pardoes’ death in 1984, the brewery changed hands a couple of times and stopped brewing in 1990. Brewing restarted in 2001. I never visited the Old Swan, but did drop by their other pub. Which, weirdly, was a 1960s estate pub.
| beer | style | format | OG | description |
| Old Swan Bitter | Pale Ale | draught | 1034 | rich & malty |
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Ma Pardoes must have not been pale ale only for long. Given they are located in a mild ale stronghold.
Oscar
Surely the reason brewpubs served their beer under CO2 pressure was because it could be kept in large tanks - saves the trouble of putting it in containers and the problem of cleaning them later, etc. Keeps well for longer, too. If I remember right, the Bruce's Brewery chain of Firkin pubs used to do this. CAMRA praised their beer - until they realised that it didn't meet their definition of 'real'.
Which shows how it can be hard to distinguish the two.
Oscar
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