Guinness, Dublin - Gallery
0 DSCF2031 The St James Street entrance to the 85 acre Guinness site in Dublin. St Patrick's windmill once served the Roe Distillery and at 150 feet high is one of the tallest in Europe. 1 DSCF1950 These little sculptures were designed and installed by James P Moran who was the mechanical engineer involved in the 989 copper project. He even put his own initials on them! 10 DSCF1951 The Guinness Storehouse - note the Rotunda panoramic bar on top of the old fermenting room which once housed the world's largest FV at 12,000hL or 26 brl per inch of dip. 11 DSCF1952 The modern exterior of the brewhouse 12 DSCF1953 One of the problems of a city centre site - expensive apartments next to an industrial operation 20 DSCF1960 There are three Buhler six roller mills working at 12t per hour on malt and 8t per hour on raw barley which is 30% of the grist 21 DSCF1961 23.5t is mashed into each of four brewing streams every six hours. There are Steels mashers into three mash conversion vessels with a stepped infusion from 63oC before transfer into these kieves for lautering. There are three 12m Balfour tuns and a pair of 10.2m diameter vessels in tandem. 22 DSCF1962 Another view of the lauter tuns or kieves 23 DSCF1963 The run off grant, the wort is pale as the colouring material is added to the copper 24 DSCF1967 Wort is run to four 1100hL underbacks which Guinness call upperbacks prior to the copper. These are by Huppmann dating from 1989 25 DSCF1968 1989 vintage Huppmann copper/whirlpools 26 DSCF1969 A view of the famous Harp insignia through the hop grist chutes to the coppers 27 DSCF1970 Inside the brewhouse control room which was about to move into the fermenting block over the road 30 DSCF1985 Hop pellet bags are slit and crushed to remove any lumps before addition 31 DSCF1986 Once the control room moves to fermenting all these additions will be automated 32 DSCF1987 Kettle finings tanks - powdered carageenan was dumped into water in these two tanks and roused with air 33 DSCF1988 Brewery pipe runs are complicated 34 DSCF1990 The external calandria for the coppers 40 DSCF2003 Brewer Breda Tanner in the Pilot Brewery 41 DSCF2004 Mash filter in the Pilot Brewery 42 DSCF2005 Brew vessels in the Pilot Brewery 43 DSCF2007 Fermenting vessels in the Pilot Brewery 44 DSCF2008 Any idea what this coil is for? 45 DSCF2009 Hot liquor tank and brew plant in the Pilot Brewery 46 DSCF2016 Yeast storage in the Pilot Brewery 47 DSCF2026 A Pilot Brewery centrifuge on wheels 48 DSCF2019 Sample kegs in the Pilot Brewery 49 DSCF2027 Complex pipework in the Pilot Brewery 50 DSCF2029 Bottling machine in the Pilot Brewery 55 DSCF2033 The entrance to the old Vat House No1 56 DSCF2035 Old wooden stout vats 57 DSCF2036 Another view of the venerable porter vats 58 DSCF2037 Another redundant building - they do help baffle the sound of brewery operations from well heeled neighbours 60 DSCF2038 The steps into redundant Brewery No2 61 DSCF2039 Welcome to Brewery No2 62 DSCF2040 The old mash conversion vessels in Brewery No2. 65 DSCF2042 The central services building and some of the 21 fermenting vessels totalling 39,000hL 66 DSCF2043 A bank of beer centrifuges 67 DSCF2044 Close up of a Westfalia beer centrifuge 68 DSCF2045 There are 32 maturation vessels totalling 114,000hL 69 DSCF2046 More maturation vessels showing the complex pipework to fill and empty 70 DSCF2053 General view of the kegging line. Roundings were odd kegs which did not fill a full pallet. 71 DSCF2054 There are two Till rotary lines filling 1000 kegs per hour 72 DSCF2055 Putting on the keg cap 73 DSCF2058 A Hyster grab truck…. 74 DSCF2057 ..which can handle 30 kegs at a time 75 DSCF2056 Thirty 30L kegs destined for rail distribution 80 DSCF2060 There is no smallpacking on the Dublin site. The drive through tanker bay handles 50 road tankers daily 85 DSCF2062 Perry Atkins CO2 liquefaction plant for gas recovered from active fermentations. 86 DSCF2072 A drum roaster for making the coloured extract 90 DSCF2077 Odd sectins of the 600mm gauge railway remain 91 DSCF2081 The old railway used a spiral tunnel under James Street to change level between the riverside part of the site and the brewhouse 92 DSCF2078 The pedestrian tunnel under James Street is still in use 93 DSCF2082 Seamus McGardle, head of Beverage Blending Agents with his map of worldwide Guinness operations and Project Brewer Gerry McGovern is on the right