Guinness, Dublin - Gallery

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  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.

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  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!

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  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.

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  The modern exterior of the brewhouse

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  One of the problems of a city centre site - expensive apartments next to an industrial operation

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  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

• 22 DSCF1962.JPGAnother view of the lauter tuns or kieves
• 23 DSCF1963.JPGThe run off grant, the wort is pale as the colouring material is added to the copper
• 24 DSCF1967.JPGWort is run to four 1100hL underbacks which Guinness call upperbacks prior to the copper. These are by Huppmann dating from 1989
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  There are two Till rotary lines filling 1000 kegs per hour

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  Putting on the keg cap

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  A Hyster grab truck….

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  ..which can handle 30 kegs at a time

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  Thirty 30L kegs destined for rail distribution

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  There is no smallpacking on the Dublin site. The drive through tanker bay handles 50 road tankers daily

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  Perry Atkins CO₂ liquefaction plant for gas recovered from active fermentations.

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  A drum roaster for making the coloured extract

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  Odd sectins of the 600mm gauge railway remain

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  The old railway used a spiral tunnel under James Street to change level between the riverside part of the site and the brewhouse

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  The pedestrian tunnel under James Street is still in use

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  Seamus McGardle, head of Beverage Blending Agents with his map of worldwide Guinness operations and Project Brewer Gerry McGovern is on the right

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