First Annual Yard City Cask Fest a Resounding Success

The first annual Yard City Cask Fest, graciously hosted by Leah and Matt Riggs last Saturday, has been declared a resounding success. At least 52 beer lovers (of legal drinking age) and several children attended the festivities under a cloudless early March sky where the mercury topped 59°F. Approximately 113 Imperial Pints of cask conditioned, hand-pumped, eminently sessionable Bitter and Mild were enjoyed by those beer lovers, as well as dozens of beer-boiled bangers and many other delectable treats. The Union Jack waved proudly in the gentle late winter breeze.

It was great to see a few new faces at the event who will hopefully be inspired to become active in the club, as well as a few seasoned veterans who haven't made it to a meeting in a while. We are already anticipating that next year the event will outgrow the venue on S. Yantic (meaning we might need a bigger location), and we will try to recruit a few more brewers to supply beer. So start drawing up plans for your beer engine and start thinking about what you want to brew from BJCP Categories 8 and 11.

Here is a summary of the beers we had:

Brad's Best Bitter

BJCP Style 8B Special/Best/Premium Bitter
4% ABV
Brewed by Brad Ginn

Major Tom Mild

BJCP Style 11A Mild
3.5% ABV
Brewed by Matt Riggs

Captain Hastings Bitter

BJCP Style 8A
4.4% ABV
Brewed by Matt Riggs

Grampa Wigan

BJCP Style 8A Standard/Ordinary Bitter
3.6% ABV
Brewed by Matt Riggs

Submitted by WSB on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 5:52pm

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Future Categories

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 9:48am.

Actually, next year people could make beers in categories 8,9,11,12, & 13, don't you think? With 14A as another possible option, unless we still want to keep the abv's in a "session fest" range. That would be my vote. It was great to drink beers under 4.5% abv. That was part of the goal I suppose.

Yes

Submitted by Brad Ginn on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 10:10am.

All those styles would be appropriate. I was thinking it would have been nice to have a porter on one of the beer engines last time. No need to limit it. Even a big scotch ale would be good on cask.