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"Definition" of draught beer (vs., say, Lager)
wrote in message .net>...
> The Submarine Captain wrote:
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> > Another way of using draft for pacvkaging was "Miller Genuine Draft",
> > reportedly called this way because it is cold-filtered and is reputed to
> > have the same crispness as the draught version.
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> In the US, "draft" beer in a can has been around since the 60's, (tho'
> the popularity comes and goes), when most of the major brands offered a
> "draft" version. Here it meant beer that was canned and marketed
> WITHOUT being pasteurized, altho' it was heavily filtered using a
> process known as "cold filtering". (In the US, kegged draught beer is
> not pasteurized.)
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> So, in the US, the term is for a type of packaging the beer (which was
> almost always light lager) and has nothing to do with the nitro-widget
> cans from the UK and Ireland.
I wonder why then UK brewers (IIRC Boddingtons, Greene King & others)
market their nitro-canned ales as "pub draft" in the US?
These types of products are sometimes called "draughtflow", "draught
in a can" but also "widget", "creamflow", "smooth" or something
similar in UK.
Also, do many US breweries actually package filtered but unpasteurised
*canned* beer? (& is *all* keg beer unpasteurised?)
AFAIK UK breweries always pasteurise beer for canning (for shelf-life
& flavour stability & to ensure yeast/infection didn't cause the beer
to ferment further & become beery shrapnel? - as cans are weaker than
bottles?)
MikeMcG
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