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Another view of the brewery frontage
Another view of the brewery frontage
Old signage from the Ann Street Brewery days
Brewery and its chimney stack, note how close the neighbours are.
Two of 210 brl lager fermentation tanks which were latterly used for ale conditioning
The brewery stack and St Helier
Someone has stolen the 'J'
More evidence of letter theft?
Jersey Best is at 3.6%ABV, 30 BU and colour of 42EBC
Jersey Special is at 4.5%ABV, 23 BJU and only 18EBC colour
Advertising material from 2004
Rather ancient description of the process for visitors
The malt screen and dust bags
Belt drive to the malt screen
Head Brewer Paul Hurley inspects a grist case
The mashing stage, brass and copper shining even though there were only half a dozen brews left to brew
Mash tun and curious copper dome over the sparge arm spindles
Well used mash tun plates
Brewer Hurley has a final polish before mashing
The mash tuns are brass shrouded
The valentine run off regulators
Detail of the valentine head
The pulley adjusts the valentine slope and hence the differential pressure on the mash tun bed
Makers plate from Geo Adlam of Bristol
Wort sample tap for mash tun runnings
Water bath to cool mash tun run off samples
Copper finings addition chamber
A bank of now enclosed fermenters
Time served Redox conditioning tanks
The two lane APV Centrimatic keg line from 1990 produced 150 pieces an hour
Certificates and worthies
Tipsy Toad is a wholely owned micro
The 8 brl Tipsy Toad plant was founded in the early 1990s by Steve Skinner now of Betty Stoggs fame
Yeast head ready for skimming
The RAD two roller mill at the new plant
The new 40brl DME brewplant
With the new brewery in a housing area, copper vapours must not be exhaisted outside. This is a cooling condensing unit to capture the vapours and discharge to drain
Pipes galore around the DME plant
Velo horizontal plate filter
43 brl conditioning tanks
Three 43brl fermentation vessels
View of the DME brew vessels
Richard Wellesley can clear a 2.4tonne mash tun in 7 minutes
Pat Dean with the Tipsy Toad mash tun