That aligns with my experience too.
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Indeed. The end of lunchtime drinking (outside the JDW bubble) hasn't helped. I've just about given up drinking cask in some pubs round here before early evening because the chances are it will have been sitting in the pipes for 18 hours. The lengthy and energetic pumping of mainly bubbles and air required to get something like a full pint is a giveway. And what you get will taste like it's been sitting in a slop bucket since last night.
I was in Small Beer in Crouch End recently and one of the beers had a strange taste but was drinkable.The guy behind the bar told me that the four cask beers ,two had been on for 2 days,the Burning sky beer had been on 5 days and the strange tasting beer from Track was on its 6th day but he was taking it off that night. Its lack of beer knowledge that will kill cask.