Carlsberg Tetley, Northampton - Gallery
The brewery was opened in 1974
The brewery was designed to incorporate the shape of a viking longboat - the prow is the brewhouse
Corporate offices on site
Road tanker loading bay
Another view of road tankers
The bare concrete does present a rather austere facade
Steam issues from the viking longboat!
Two malt silos. One has nine 100 tonne cells and other six 200t
Malt wagon unloading
The chisel bottom of the silo cells in created by a huge conical bottom to the structure
The outfeed conveyors from the malt silos
CO2 collection plant by Union Engineering from Denmark
60% of the beer bitterness comes from liquid extract. It is kept warm in a Decker cabinet.
The extract is tipped from a drum into the working tank
This device slits hop pellet boxes - it was awaiting its cabinet
Hop pellets are fed into the hop pots. Wort picks them up and pumps the hops to the coppers
Another treatments pot
Inside the cavernous brewhouse
The malt screens are by Buhler
The Chronos Richardson malt weighers
The hammer mill within its acoustic and explosion proof box
This 12 tonne Meura mash filter was installed in 1998
The wort balance tank on the Meura mash filter
The newer mash filter installed in 2002
Below the mash filter showing the spent grains discharge trough
The discharge to the spent grains tanks
High above the brew vessels
The two mash filters are at right angles to each other
Bare concrete walls in the brewhouse
The copper calandria by Huppmann
Taking a wort sample
The vessel in the foreground is the whirlpool with the wort prerun vessel behind
The whirlpool vessel
The mash vessel will process 12 tonnes every two hours giving twelve 650hL brews a day. There are two mash lines
One of 74 x 1500hL conical bottomed fermenters
Equipment on the top of a fermenter
A view from the riverbank of some of the 34 x 7000hL conditioning tanks. The working corridor is underground.
Filtrox candle filter
Some of the 14 x 1250hL horizontal bright beer tanks
440mL cans of Skol coming off two can lines
The Krones can filler and Ferrum seamer
A record week on No1 can line
Bottle conveyors with the Sander Hansen pasteuriser on the right
The 1998 Krones bottling line works at 54,000bph
Change parts for the bottling line
The 16 lane APV kegging line dates from 1993 and will fill 1000 50L kegs an hour
Locator board handling is still manual
