Black Sheep - Gallery

BS LOGO The Black Sheep Brewery logo BS The brewery was once Lightfoot's maltings in Masham BS1 The entrance to the visitors facilities BS2 The Black Sheep portfolio on sale BS3 The Black Sheep Bistro BSB clip Black Sheep Bitter pump clip DSCF4379 The new cask racking room - on the right is the brewhouse DSCF4380 Casks arrive on the 'Sheepy Shifter' from the local depot DSCF4381 Off loading empty casks for washing DSCF4382 Diesel fork lift clamp truck taking casks to the line DSCF4383 View of the line built by Microdat; dirties in on the right, debung, wash, label and rekeystone, fill and seal, palletise and away DSCF4387 The truck driver moves the locator board from a layer of empties to a layer of fulls DSCF4393 Making sure the keystone is uppermost, the casks pass to the deshive and dekeystoning machine DSCF4403 Casks enter the washing machine DSCF4405 The rear of the Microdat cask washer DSCF4409 The washer has 10 stations DSCF4412 View of the discharge end. The cask is upended and an operator places a new keystone into the aperture… DSCF4414 …a machine presses it home and the Logopak machine adds a label DSCF4418 The four lane filling machine DSCF4420 The filling head has two stations, this one fills the cask…. DSCF4421 …then the beer head disengages, the operator places a shive in the aperture and the frame moves back and the shive is pressed home DSCF4430 The Velderflex pumps for metering in the isinglass finings DSCF4434 Four cleaning nozzles for the beer heads DSCF4439 The cask is upended and heads towards the camera for palletising DSCF4442 A completed three layer pallet is created by the truck operator DSCF4448 This fiercesome device will grab a cask inside the chime and lift it on to flat pallets as required by some customers DSCF4470 Inside the brewhouse DSCF4473 The old mash tun, you can just about see the grist case above and the underback taps below DSCF4476 The original mash tun (and copper) came from Hartleys at Ulverston DSCF4482 The old copper dates from 1947, Grange Engineering in Burton on Trent fitted a stainless inside DSCF4483 The manway is not visible from the visitors walkway DSCF4484 The external calandria for the copper DSCF4486 Head Brewer Paul Ambler with the new mash tun which was built by Grange Engineering. DSCF4487 The spent grain chutes…. DSCF4488 ..and two positive displacement Seepex pumps DSCF4491 In the hop room DSCF4493 Hops from Kent… DSCF4494 Hops from Sussex.. DSCF4496 ..and hops from Herefordshire DSCF4498 Head Brewer Paul Ambler rubs the hops DSCF4502 The new mash tun side commissioned in 2004 DSCF4505 Grange Engineering's Steels masher and grist case DSCF4511 Yorkshire square 'rounds' built new by Shobwood from Burton on Trent DSCF4515 The operator is cropping the yeast from the left hand 'square' - note the rousing fantail on the righthand FV DSCF4517 Cropping the yeast DSCF4518 A venerable slate square rescued from Darleys at Thorne DSCF4525 A slate square in action DSCF4526 A round square in action DSCF4528 The top floor is domed for strength, the starting wort level will touch the underside of the floor at the periphery leaving 100mm freeboard under the hole DSCF4541 Operators Dan Scott Paul and Steve Wilson DSCF4542 Brewers Astrid Hewitt and Alan Dunn DSCF4543 Maturation vessels DSCF4547 The beer processing block