The latest local brewery aspiring to open plans to exclusively brew cask ales. Firkin Ales Real Ale House launched a Kickstarter campaign late last week to raise some starting funds for their firkin focus.
Cask ales are unfiltered and unpasteurized beers served directly from the casks in which they are conditioned, without added CO2.
According to the Kickstarter page, the brewery owners fell in love with cask-conditioned beers while traveling in Europe, where cask ales are much more common than they are in the US.
The campaign video claims that there are no “cask conditioned ale houses” in Columbus, though arguably Smokehouse Brewing, with two always-on beer engines, weekly special firkin tappings, and an annual Mini Real Ale Fest, is as close to a “cask house” as you can get without eschewing carbonated kegs completely.
But while Firkin Ales might not exactly be the fist cask house in Columbus, it WOULD be the first woman-owned brewery in Columbus, with two female co-founders, Ruth Thurgood Mundy and Lauren Spence, both of whom are avid homebrewers.
The duo has 19 days and $23,355 to go to hit their goal of $27,000. You can back their Kickstarter through May 18 here.
