Make real ale special

There’s many a slip twixt cup and lip, but the lockdown is coming to an end, we will be able to sup inside pubs and beer will once again be gushing into glasses. But what kind of beer will the punters be guzzling? The awful truth is that not much of it will be cask beer. Sales of real ale were declining by 10 per cent a year before the pandemic savaged the pub trade. For the past year, whatever people have been drinking, it hasn’t been cask....