Show 162: Away Days Brewing

On June 11th, Portland’s English-themed, pro-cask Away Days Brewery hosts a cask ale festival with several regional breweries. As you know, Jeff and I love cask ale and have been promoting it for over a decade—all to little apparent effect. Something changed in the past few years, though, and now several Portland-area breweries have regular cask offerings (we toured a chunk of them on a podcast extra between Shows 155 and 156). That something may very well be Away Days, which has shown the kind of sustained commitment to cask that has helped raise its profile in the city. In advance of the fest, we wanted to sit down and talk to some folks from the brewery