A brewery and British pub in New York’s Finger Lakes region pours cask ales from 12 beer engines—a feat likely unparalleled ...

With the thwack of a mallet and an occasional spray of beer, tapping a cask can be quite a spectacle. It’s not one we witness often on this side of the pond, but in England it’s standard practice.

To the untrained eye, it looked like Alex Hall was surrounded by several small kegs inside the General Sutter Inn on Sunday afternoon. The metal barrels were shaped like kegs. They had taps and ...

“These are probably, what, 50 years old?” Mr. Benson gestured toward the brass taps that Mr. Hall had installed on a few firkins, special kegs for cask beers. “I bought them on e-Bay,” Mr. Hall said ...