Hesket Newmarket Brewery – 5 June 2007
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
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.
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 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
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 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 four head bottling device supplied by AB(UK)
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.
