While working in factories people had less time for socializing in taverns and brewers needed to respond. Bottling was a means to get beer more easily into the hands of their customers. Working twelve hours a day, six days a week limited access to pubs and taverns so brewers bottled in order to get the beer into their customers homes.
The industrialization of brewing and bottling practices opened the market for brewers to reach the millions of immigrant laborers that were flooding into the US. The immigrants also provided new techniques and practices for brewing especially those from Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to the influx of immigrants from continental Europe, Americans were English ale drinkers.
Porter was probably the most popular style. Along with the popularity of lager beer came a parallel taste for cold beer with higher levels of carbonation. With the long conditioning at cold temperatures, continental styles came with more dissolved CO2 in beers and Americans developed a love for bubbles in their beer.
Hard Times for Kegs The preference for carbonated lagers created some difficulties in the U. The common practice of pulling beer up from the basement using a beer engine was ineffective because the action of the pumping caused far too much foaming. New dispense systems had to be developed that a allowed the beer to be served cold b maintained the carbonation in the beer and c allowed the beer to be poured without too much foam. By the turn of the twentieth century brewers almost always owned the saloons in which only their own beer was served, or they owned exclusive rights to have only their beer served.
Some brewers were able to install newly developed refrigeration systems in saloons while others still relied on ice to keep the beer cold. Also by this time, draft beer was nearly always served to the saloon taps using compressed gas. Typically this gas was air, which quickly oxidizes beer making it taste stale.
During this period, pasteurization of beer became common in order to allow quality to be maintained through shipping and delivery. In fact, pasteurization was developed and used in brewing long before it became common in dairy products. With pasteurization came stable some would say dead beer. This beer did not have to be stored cold, thereby making it easier to store and ship. Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Arts When was the first keg invented? Ben Davis April 8, When was the first keg invented?
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Kegs have come a long way since , the year Josef Groll first brewed Pilsner Urquell. But even as kegs have changed, our golden lager has stayed the same. Thousands of years ago when people began brewing, they mostly kept the beer in clay pots. But at some point brewers realised they could carbonate beer by storing it in airtight containers while the yeast continued to ferment. As brewing developed in Europe, wooden casks were designed from oak and other hard wood.
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