Kaneens Brewery, Kaneen's Garage, Main Road, Union Mills, Isle of Man IM4 4AE
Launched in February 2021.
Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 30 May 2021
Peter Kaneen was a home brewer who set up during the Covid pandemic
The brewery is in the old service bays of the family garage
Pre-crushed malt from Muntons
Peter Kaneen part slitting the malt bags
1600hL hot liquor tank, 175kg mash tun, plastic underback and 10hL copper, all from Dave Porter
The mash tun and copper, plant was bought from Edinbrew in guess where…Edinburgh
The perforated mash tun plate
Mashing with a hose pipe into the malt sack
Tiny pump for wort recirculation
Valentine run off device, underback and wort tranfer pump to copper
Inside the copper showing 9 and 12kW elements
Peter Kaneen and Patrick Jerry his assistant
Wort transfer pump, hop seed filter and heat exchanger
Mr Jerry removes the spent grains
There are four 10hL Enduramaxx polypropylene fermenters
Lallemand Nottingham yeast for the ale
25L pico brewery for experiments
NDL supplied 38 containers initially but soon another 36 were on order as "you do not get them back very quickly"
PBS teo station cask washer