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Isle of Skye Brewing Co (Leann An Eilein), Uig, Isle of Skye - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 16 August 2006
The brewery started in 1995 and has five main brands named after local hills, Bonny Prince Charlie and a 7%ABV winter warmer
There are four transit vans …
…covering hundreds of miles to over 200 drops.
The brewery buildings and shop at Uig
The brew plant end with a couple of CO2 cylinders
View of the brewery from the ferry to Tarbert in the Outer Hebrides
Specialist malt from Fawcetts
The hop room is very constricted. All hops are cone
Muntons pale malt amongst the fermenters
Hop weighing complete
The Fulton vertical boiler….
…is housed in an old ISO container with the other half containing conditioning tanks with an oil tank on top
The wooden grist case, mash tun in the foreground and copper copper at the back
The 20 brl mash tun and copper by Archibld McMillan of Prestonpans, which also supkied tewo matching fermenters
Brewer Norry MacLeod looks at the weather while mashing
Mash almost all in
Put the drain pipe grist chute back in its place
Clean out the underback
View of the copper from above
The heating coil in the copper
The copper coil and the sieve to hold back the hops
Skimming the yeast which originally came from Wards.
Two 20brl jacketed conditioning tanks
Five more 5brl cellar tanks for conditioning in a coiled ISO container
Labelling bottles for short in house runs, Belhaven do the larger brands
A two head Moravek CT250 manual filler can do around 200bph
Two head cask washer
A cabinet for washing four Cornelius vessels at a time
A pair of Cornelius pop concentrate containers adapted for beer dispense at the Uig Hotel
The gas port is closed off, a pressure relief valve fitted and the spear shortened
Merchandise in the brewery shop
Proprietor Angus MacRuary and his wife Pam who does the brewing
