Draught is a term used to describe a certain type of beer. Originally, this term referred to “any beer stored in large containers and then poured into smaller containers for consumption, all under pressure”. Here’s a quick explanation of this term, frequently found on cans of Irish beer…
Draught is what we call a “pressure” beer: the beer is stored in a cask pressurized with carbon dioxide, and possibly also with nitrogen (for Guinness, for example, which gives it its distinctive foam), and this pressure brings the beer up from the basement where the cask is located to our glasses…
The term is also sometimes used for cans using processes that are supposed to make home-brewed beer as good as a real “draught”, with varying degrees of success.
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