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the wet stuff at WF6

Please don't call at the brewery on the off-chance, in the hope of a sample - the farmyard dogs are a bit evil and even Bryan who gets up to the brewhouse most days is very wary. There's also a five legged stallion who's not particularly choosy about what he services.

The team do hope to be able to offer pre-arranged brewery visits at a future date. Meantime please make contact by telephone only - 07876 141336.

Article from Summer 2005 O-to-K Magazine

Recently when enjoying the generous hospitality of the brewers at WF6, we noticed that our beer was being drawn out of the cask via the device shown. A landlord at a nearby pub confided that he was only able to fit his guest beers in his very cramped cellar by tucking them in a corner and using a spear extractor. Spear extractors are originally made with keg beers in mind but accepting certain limitations they can be a godsend. It looks as if it should not be too difficult to turn out home-made ones. This year’s Halifax Mayfest beer festival was also using spear extractors with the casks stood on end, and this had made setting-up very quick and easy, we were told. Provided that you don’t want to remove or exchange the casks on the lower layer it is possible to stack your casks in a pyramid. A tapered bung is first banged into the tap hole, its cap removed and then the spear is inserted until it just bounces off the bottom end. After that a ring is tightened to hold the spear in the right place. The designs vary but the spear has inner and outer sleeves so that the vacuum can be relieved via the valve on the elbow—otherwise you’d never get any beer out.©