Ale-ments (and other woes)

It's been a bad two weeks for real ale. The cask we got two weeks ago failed to clear. It turned out that the batch had not been sufficiently fined (stuff added to clear it) and neither had a second batch. The cask delivered last week turned out to be from the second batch and hey, guess what - it didn't clear.

The brewery's sales director turned up and took the two casks away replacing them with one cask and a credit for another one.

Guess what - it didn't clear.

Meanwhile we had had a cask of Goldihops delivered from Kelburn brewery. It was spiled (opened) last night and had cleared by this morning.

Oh, and the ice machine blew up yesterday necessitating a panic buy of ice from the Co-op.
Sigh.