Harveys - Gallery
0 DSCF1281 Harveys at Lewes on a crisp November afternoon
10 DSCF1314 The brewery sits right beside the River Ouse
11 DSCF1319 The brewery was designed by William Bradford and built in 1881
12 DSCF1323 This shot shows the ornate fenestrated malt sack hoist
13 DSCF1325 The brewery yard
14 DSCF1330 The oriel window aka the arse end of the Victory is the brewers office
15 DSCF1336 The brewery tower is a prominent Lewes landmark
16 DSCF1340 The weathervane on the top of the tower dates from 1621 and was discovered as the foundations were being dug in 1880
17 DSCF1338 Detail of the top of the brewing tower
20 DSCF1235 The malt room
21 DSCF1238 Another view of the malt room
22 DSCF1237 The sugar store with blocks of Ragus invert No3
23 DSCF1233 The working hop store - cone hops are in exclusive use
24 DSCF1247 The malt chute down to the mill
25 DSCF1291 The Boby mill
26 DSCF1234 Signage on the Malt Room door
27 DSCF1240 The two mash tuns mash 4.25 tonnes of malt at 0700. The second was built by Briggs in 1985. Note the 'lighthouse' run off controller in the foreground.
28 DSCF1197 The wort safe from the pair of mash tuns
29 DSCF1198 Last runnings
30 DSCF1214 Sparging the old mash tun
31 DSCF1203 The 'old' 60brl copper was made by Forsyths only in 1999
32 DSCF1205 The 50 brl Briggs copper from 1985
33 DSCF1204 Copper on the boil
34 DSCF1207 Copperside man Kevin Richardson adding the late hops
35 DSCF1242 View of the wort safe and the two coppers
36 DSCF1253 The simple lines of the Forsyths copper
37 DSCF1249 The sugar dissolving vessel for primings
38 DSCF1250 XXX
39 DSCF1333 Harveys has two grain trailers and four smaller ones for spent hops
40 DSCF1298 Spent hops on their way to a local horticulturalist
41 DSCF1257 Collecting wort and a part covered attemperator panel
42 DSCF1254 Parachute skimming in the fermenting vessels
43 DSCF1259 Lots of detail on the vessel blackboard for FT2
44 DSCF1260 Collection in progress into FT10
45 DSCF1262 The parachute lowering gear on FT12
46 DSCF1269 A barm trough in refrigerated storage
50 DSCF1274 The old cask washer
51 DSCF1278 The new Microdat cask washer
52 DSCF1276 Detail of the Microdat cask washer
53 DSCF1275 All the controls for the cask washer are well above floor level as a flood precaution
54 DSCF1270 Casks are filled directly from the FVs above
55 DSCF1272 T100 half ounce compressed hop pellets for dry hopping the casks
56 DSCF1273 Another view of the four head racking line
57 DSCF1266 The ale stores. Casks are fined just before despatch and polypin is collecting displaced ullage
58 DSCF1268 More casks and more ullage
61 DSCF1245 Brewer Ian Burgess completes his paperwork
62 DSCF1246 Traditional hand written ledgers
63 DSCF1255 Fermenting records in more ledgers
70 DSCF1297 Joint managaging director Miles Jenner showing the level of the flood in 2000
71 DSCF1283 The posts will prevent the oil tank floating away if there is another inundation
72 DSCF1286 The Wellman Robey boiler is new after the floods
73 DSCF1287 Detail of the boiler controls
74 DSCF1280 XXX
80 DSCF1301 XXX
81 DSCF1220 The old steam is usually fired up only on Christmas Eve
82 DSCF1221 The boiler makers plate - Pontifex and Wood
83 DSCF1224 Engineer Richard Spiller with his pride and joy
84 DSCF1226 A joy to behold and not unduely hidden behind modern safety mesh
86 DSCF1229 It is nippy on a November morning in the brewers office. There is a coal bucket but the fire is gas!
87 DSCF1236 An old Harveys advertising sign
88 DSCF1265 Rye Pottery provided the sample room tiles
89 DSCF1264 Every sample room should be well decorated
90 DSCF1265 Detail of the tile design
91 DSCF1284 A local delivery vehicle - all beer is sold within 50 miles
92 DSCF1343 The sign to Harveys largest account - the brewery shop
93 DSCF1302 Harveys do 18 bottled beers
94 DSCF1305 Many is presentation packs
95 DSCF1306 ..along with jugs and other memorabilia
97 DSCF1317 Miles Jenner does not have far to go to work
98 DSCF1299 Miles Jenner at his sample room door
99 DSCF1349 This fine old jug dates from 1905 and R&H Jenne's South London Brewery on the Southwark Road near the Elephant and Castle