Harveys - Gallery

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Harveys at Lewes on a crisp November afternoon
The brewery sits right beside the River Ouse
The brewery was designed by William Bradford and built in 1881
This shot shows the ornate fenestrated malt sack hoist
The brewery yard
The oriel window aka the arse end of the Victory is the brewers office
The brewery tower is a prominent Lewes landmark
The weathervane on the top of the tower dates from 1621 and was discovered as the foundations were being dug in 1880
Detail of the top of the brewing tower
The malt room
Another view of the malt room
The sugar store with blocks of Ragus invert No3
The working hop store - cone hops are in exclusive use
The malt chute down to the mill
The Boby mill
Signage on the Malt Room door
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.
The wort safe from the pair of mash tuns
Last runnings
Sparging the old mash tun
The 'old' 60brl copper was made by Forsyths only in 1999
The 50 brl Briggs copper from 1985
Copper on the boil
Copperside man Kevin Richardson adding the late hops
View of the wort safe and the two coppers
The simple lines of the Forsyths copper
The sugar dissolving vessel for primings
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Harveys has two grain trailers and four smaller ones for spent hops
Spent hops on their way to a local horticulturalist
Collecting wort and a part covered attemperator panel
Parachute skimming in the fermenting vessels
Lots of detail on the vessel blackboard for FT2
Collection in progress into FT10
The parachute lowering gear on FT12
A barm trough in refrigerated storage
The old cask washer
The new Microdat cask washer
Detail of the Microdat cask washer
All the controls for the cask washer are well above floor level as a flood precaution
Casks are filled directly from the FVs above
T100 half ounce compressed hop pellets for dry hopping the casks
Another view of the four head racking line
The ale stores. Casks are fined just before despatch and the polypin is collecting displaced ullage
More casks and more ullage
Brewer Ian Burgess completes his paperwork
Traditional hand written ledgers
Fermenting records in more ledgers
Joint managing director Miles Jenner showing the level of the flood in 2000
The posts will prevent the oil tank floating away if there is another inundation
The Wellman Robey boiler is new after the floods
Detail of the boiler controls
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The old steam is usually fired up only on Christmas Eve
The boiler makers plate - Pontifex and Wood
Engineer Richard Spiller with his pride and joy
A joy to behold and not unduly hidden behind modern safety mesh
It is nippy on a November morning in the brewers office. There is a coal bucket but the fire is gas!
An old Harveys advertising sign
Rye Pottery provided the sample room tiles
Every sample room should be well decorated
Detail of the tile design
A local delivery vehicle - all beer is sold within 50 miles
The sign to Harveys largest account - the brewery shop
Harveys do 18 bottled beers...
...many in presentation packs...
...along with jugs and other memorabilia
Miles Jenner does not have far to go to work
Miles Jenner at his sample room door
This fine old jug dates from 1905 and R&H Jenner's South London Brewery on the Southwark Bridge Road near the Elephant and Castle. Brewing without the Jenners continued until 1964

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