"To assist the community in minimising the alcohol-related harm, we are introducing a No Car No Service policy on cask wine," the sign read.
Likewise, the Cambridge Blue's extensive cask and keg line-up includes beers as traditional as Tydd Steam's highly drinkable Swedish Blonde, wheat beers brewed in Essex (Mighty Oak's Head In The Clouds), craft beers from New Zealand (I found Renaissance's Voyager IPA a little sweet), and such exotica as a chilli-infused black IPA from Peterborough's buccaneering craft outfit Bexar County.
31 Bridge Street, 01223 568989, cambridgewine.com The city's only brewpub (where you can watch brewer, Mark Burton, working away on his tiny brew kit), Cambridge Brew House serves six cask ales including three of its own beers.
Those beers include unpasteurised tank Pilsner Urquell; several Brewdog, Red Squirrel and Black Isle keg beers; bottles from excellent US brewery, Goose Island (now distributed by Greene King in the UK), and guest cask ales from such breweries as Wolf, Potbelly, Slater's and Colchester.
Blue Moon's range revolves around four cask and 10 keg lines, which were dispensing, among others, Almasty's Figin Porter and Nene Valley's Big Bang Theory.
Despite it being a Greene King pub, the Architect's sister outlet, The Alex, also carries cask beers from local and regional breweries such as BlackBar and Wolf, as well as Brewdog beers on keg.
Three Darwin drive-through bottle shops have enacted a "no car, no service" ban on cask wine sales amid debate about the Northern Territory's alcohol problems and the inconsistent measures in place to combat it.
The pub's 16 cask beers are more traditional, but you will find some notables in there from local breweries, such as Moonshine and Colchester Brewery, as well as new-wave guest beers from, for instance, Manchester's TicketyBrew and Yorkshire's Summer Wine.
When some Alice Springs outlets first tried a "no car no cask" sales policy, it resulted in a "rush hour" for taxis who were reportedly paid a premium to take people on the short journey through the bottle shop driveway.
Its 10 keg and six cask lines were, on this visit, pouring beers from Arbor, Thornbridge, Redemption, Redwell and Dutch brewery Kaapse, as well as an intriguing Imperial India Brown beer from Beavertown in collaboration with Canada's Bellwoods.
The Kingston's 11 cask ales mix stalwart real ales, such as Landlord, with hop-forward creations from, say, Bristol Beer Factory, Celt, Burning Sky, Dark Star and TicketyBrew.
