Interview with John Keeling

Описание: Interview with John Keeling, former head of brewing at Fullers. Where he talks about wet breweries, the rise of craft beer, the threat to cask, squares versus conical fermenters, high taxation, and the death of Fullers Mild.

He chats with Ron Pattinson, armchair dilettante and pretend historian, who has churned out more books the most people read in a lifetime.

Topics covered:

00:06 theft at breweries
00:25 on site drinking at Fullers
00:59 on site drinking at Wilsons
01:42 on site drinking at Youngs
02:02 open squares at Wilsons
02:37 enzymes at Wilsons for Watneys beers
03:16 John's work at Wilsons
03:27 brewing with raw barley at Wilsons
03:45 John preferred Boddington
04:12 drinking Robinsons
04:24 drinking Holts
04:46 drinking local beers
05:10 rat in the fermenter
05:55 brewers lacking money to invest
06:31 CAMRA saved Fullers
07:07 the rise of craft beer
08:00 has the taste of Robinsions Bitter changed over the years?
08:17 change in beer flavour
08:59 cask brewed in conicals
09:28 moved all cask to conicals
10:06 squares make the best beer
10:34 conicals more consistent
11:47 national rather than local taste
13:00 change in beers brewed
14:02 Vietnamese craft beer
15:08 the government has to save cask
16:01 making beer cheaper to brew
17:23 you don't want flavour
19:33 UK pseudo Lager
20:20 weak Heineken for the UK
21:00 brewers considered tools
22:23 what should a new beer taste like?
23:19 how strong should a new beer be?
23:56 craft brewers happy to make 5.5% beer
24:32 UK beer overtaxed
25:35 Sierra Nevada
26:11 small brewers not paying duty
26:55 sediment allowance
28:13 cask declining because margins too low
30:07 CAMRA hasn't saved cask beer
31:55 more keg lines = more money
33:05 Chesters Fighting Mild
34:41 Fullers Hock
35:40 why is cask beer cheaper?
36:34 Lager more profitable than cask