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Cotswold Brewing, Foscot, Oxfordshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 9 February 2006

Cotswold Brewery logo
The brewery buildings, a Cotswold stone barn repurposed
The old oak beams and high ceiling make for a chilly workplace
The incoming water is high in bicarbonate and needs reverse osmosis treatment by Lubron
The reverse osmosis membrane housings
A two roller mill crusheds the Warminister mix of Optic and
The head room allows a hefty grist case for the 450kg mash
The 25hL brewplant from Specific in Canada came from the Tap Street Brew Pub at Albany in New York State
The grist is mashed straight into the lauter tun. The arms are only used for graining
Sparging in process
Graining in progress
Bags of grains assembled for neighbouring farmers
Steam is supplied from an oil fired ICI Caldiae one million BTU unit
Changeover station between the lauter and copper
Copper/whirlpool, paraflow and changeover detail
Clothes peg mark the copper dip target
Environmental rules dictate a condenser on the copper vent
The wort heat exchanger cools the wort to 15 degrees C
The heat exchanger from above
Eight 33hL conical fermenters
A population of kegs supplied by Morrow. They are washed and filled by hand
Cotswold Lager at 5%ABV is all malt and modelled on Czech practice but using Liberty and Hersbrucker hops
Co-proprietor Richard Keane (with his wife Emma) from Courage, Freedom, Pilgrim and Archers before setting up on his own.