Sunday, 18 January 2026

Derek Prentice and brewing in the 1970s part 3

The third part of my talk with Derek Prentice about brewing in the 1970s, Talking about about keg and cask beer, primings, maltings, hop varieties, mashing and dropping system of fermentation.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Greene King were big on top pressure in the 70's.mind you there beer served in handpump cask form was much better than today

19 January 2026 at 03:41
arnie moodenbaugh said...

More interesting discussion. Sad to think I won't be getting to Sheffield. To clarify, from you discussion, British keg beer was generally flash pasteurized, while bright beer (tank) was filtered only. US keg beer in the 70s was almost always filtered but not pasteurized, similar to bright beer. Coors also packaged their unpasteurized beer, and other brewers introduced draft bottled/canned beer (and some "draft style" beers). I personally never did a direct test, but saw little difference between US draft and pasteurized bottled beer flavor. Maybe the US brewers' recipes were adapted to minimize changes during pasteurization.

19 January 2026 at 20:18

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