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Latest revision as of 19:53, 26 January 2022
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Brick clad brewing tower dates from the 1960s
Offices and brew tower
Buckets of caramel awaiting addition
In the brewhouse control room
Hop separator
Wort heat exchanger
Some of the 16 180brl conical bottomed fermenters
More conical bottomed fermenters
Using a float guage in an open fermenter
Wort sampling at collection
Top floor of a Yorkshire square
Rousing a Yorkshire square
Spray cleaning an open vessel
Spray cleaning an open vessel
Attemperation coils in open vessel
Yeast laden fob emerges from the enclosed compartment below, yeast settles out on the top floor and green beer drains back below through 'organ pipes'
Finished yeast head in an open vessel
General view of the fermenting room, there are 23 vessels, ten of them Yorkshires
Collection taking place on the left and rousing pumps for the vessels on the right
Six 360 brl conicals outside
Horizontal conditioning tanks
Bottling line pocessing vessels
Horizontal bright tanks
Polynellie filters are impregnated with PVPP to remove ber tannins. They are returned to the manufacture for recharging
Lenticular filter to remove bacteria down to .45 micron
Stella Meta beer filter
A delivery of Polynellies
Yeast collection vessels
New 50 brl cask racking tanks for shorter runs
10 brl yeast propagation vessel by APV
Newly filled bottles awaiting packing
Sterile filters for the bottling line
The bottling line relocated from Brakspears
Depalletising empty bottles
Detail of the depalletising grabs
Manual packing into trays
Labeller feed
Finished packs on their way to manual palletising
A stock of trays assembled in advance
The Burnett and Rolfe six lane keg line fills 420 kegs an hour
General view of the keg line
More processing vessels
Canning line bright tank corridor
88 head SEN filler works at 800 cans per minute
General view of the can line
Collated cans on the way to packing
Cans, more cans
Any ideas what this is?
Brian Hickman, Production and Distribution Director
Head Brewer Steve Fielding
Brewhouse operator John Rigby
