Hesket Newmarket Brewery – 5 June 2007

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Hesket Newmarket Brewery, Cumbia - Roger Putnam - 5 June 2007


  • Hesket Newmarket is a village of some 400 folk in the Lake District. The brewery was built in an old barn behind the Crown Inn in 1988

    Hesket Newmarket is a village of some 400 folk in the Lake District. The brewery was built in an old barn behind the Crown Inn in 1988

  • The Old Crown pub now sells only a quarter of the brewery's output

    The Old Crown pub now sells only a quarter of the brewery's output

  • The pub sold the brewery to 66 local shareholders who paid £1500 each for a share back in 1999 becoming the UK's first cooperative brewery. 147 shareholdes bought the pub as well in 2003.

    The pub sold the brewery to 66 local shareholders who paid £1500 each for a share back in 1999 becoming the UK's first cooperative brewery. 147 shareholdes bought the pub as well in 2003.

  • Malcolm Hawksworth has leased the pub since 2006. The beers are named after local hills apart from Great Cock Up which is the nation's only 3.0%ABV stout after a double addition of black malt!

    Malcolm Hawksworth has leased the pub since 2006. The beers are named after local hills apart from Great Cock Up which is the nation's only 3.0%ABV stout after a double addition of black malt!

  • The delivery van

    The delivery van

  • The brewery buildings

    The brewery buildings

  • Robin Murray, one of the shareholders earning £50 a day doing a mash to help out. Shareholders get £100 annual dividend or two firkins

    Robin Murray, one of the shareholders earning £50 a day doing a mash to help out. Shareholders get £100 annual dividend or two firkins

  • There are a pair of 150kg mash tuns and two electrically heated coppers.

    There are a pair of 150kg mash tuns and two electrically heated coppers.

  • The valentine device to control wort run off, it cannot go flat as the second mash tun is too far forward!

    The valentine device to control wort run off, it cannot go flat as the second mash tun is too far forward!

  • The brew plant is by Abbott of Newark, its first in the UK. The tiny wort heat exchanger between one of the sets of MT and copper

    The brew plant is by Abbott of Newark, its first in the UK. The tiny wort heat exchanger between one of the sets of MT and copper

  • The string of sterilising filter cartridges, 10micron, 1 micron and 0.45micron

    The string of sterilising filter cartridges, 10micron, 1 micron and 0.45micron

  • The four head bottling device supplied by AB(UK)

    The four head bottling device supplied by AB(UK)

  • Most casks are Cypherco plastic

    Most casks are Cypherco plastic

  • Brewer since 2002 Mike Parker ex Bass at Sheffield, Runcorn and Tadcaster as well as running his own pub demonstrates the Reunion cask widget.

    Brewer since 2002 Mike Parker ex Bass at Sheffield, Runcorn and Tadcaster as well as running his own pub demonstrates the Reunion cask widget.

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