Wadworths - Gallery
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Three of Wadworth's cask brands
Wooden casks on the back fitting in the brewery hospitality bar
The Marketplace façade of the brewery
Brewery architecture dating from 1885
Brewery architecture
Brewery architecture
Brewery architecture
Brewery architecture
Brewery architecture
The brewery from the top of Bath Road
Detail of the brewhouse exterior
Detail of the brewhouse exterior
Detail of the brewhouse exterior
Hop decoration in the brewhouse
Malt storage - crystal malt from French and Jupps
Granulated sugar
Hop storage
Two mills recovered from Julia Hanson in Dudley are in reserve
Porteus four roller malt mill
Checking the mash temperature - there are two mash tuns holding 28 and 18 qtrs brimful
Cramming all the mash in
Granulated sugar into the underback - some 3.5% of the extract is added 'to get the fermentation off to a good start in an old Victorian building'
Wort flowing to the open copper
Wort flowing to the open copper
Wort flowing to the open copper
Open and closed coppers
Closed copper
The head brewer completes the mashing ledger
Wort heat exchanger
Canongate supplied the sort oxygenation system
Break dsamples
The Head Brewer checks the Bran + Luebbe injector system for primings, auxiliary and isinglass finings at rack.
Open fermenters - installed by Briggs in 1975 there are ten x 100brl vessels; two are split into 70:30
Yeast almost ready to crop, the parachutes are at the end of the vessel
Bottom of a 300brl conical FV recovered from Shipstones in Nottingham - currently used as a cask racking vessel
Yeast propagation vessels recovered from Whitbread at Cheltenham
The main cask washer cannot handle pins so Porter Lancastrian installed a single head washer for them
Swing bend changeover station
Tops of the 155 brl conical vessels
Enclosed 300brl squares supplied by Shobwood in Burton on Trent
The smallest 30brl open square showing the parachute control wheel
Wooden firkins
Racking wooden firkins
Racking metal casks. The racker has six lanes, four ex Ushers in Trowbridge and two new by Chadburn
A cunning keystone with captive 'cork' by Technoplastics
A Palamatic cask handling device
More wooden casks at fill
Washed wooden casks
Alphafloc isinglass paste
Carlson 60 sheet filter uses silica hydrogel
External keg washer
The keg line was the first Till machine in the UK
Venerable weighscale
Sandra Bates' QC laboratory
A steam engine still in situ for visitors
The steam engine is powered by the steam supply to the coppers
Wadworth still delivers beer locally by horse and dray
A horse drawn dray
Horseman tending to the tack
Signwriting in action
Signwriting in action by Paul Martin
Signwriting in action
Signwriting in action with David Young
Head Brewer Trevor Holmes
Cooper Alistair Simm
