Dmax
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is it just the bars I frequent or do beers on tap taste worse than when in they're in the bottle? they always taste a little flat with carbonation mostly gone out of them
To enjoy beers on tap, the lines have to be kept perfectly clean and the kegs have to be relatively fresh. Cleaning the taps costs time and money so some bars are much better than others about it. I would only get bottled beer in some places, being tired of tasting the metallic undertones from their dirty taps. I find that freshness is particularly important with IPAs/double IPA's as their delicate, complex hop flavors wills start to fade after a few weeks. Cask conditioned beers tend to be always be relatively flat since they naturally have very low carbonation levels.