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Mashing trumpet shared between two mash tuns
Grist case and mash tun, there are five 5 tonne mash tuns
Steels masher between two mash tuns
Valentine run off controller
Graining arm in the base of the mash tun
Two Briggs 500brl copper whirlpools
Wall decoration on the copper hearth
Wall decoration on the copper hearth
Copper whirlpool showing expensive kink in the vent
Open 125 brl lined wooden fermenter
There are just over 100 fermenters, all but 30 are open
Enclosed 125 brl FVs mainly for the Mansfield beers
Array of Realm valves to ensure yeasts are kept separate
Cask racking in progress at 220 pieces per hour
The cask racker has 12 stations
Detail of the Carlson filter
Loading out stock for the brewery SCADA system
Isinglass dissolving in weak organic acid
Brewery yard is in the middle of the 8.5 acre site
A few old buildings survive
A few old buildings survive
Park Street buildings, drays are loaded in the roadway
Redundant plant - too expensive to remove
Old control panel superseded by a home designed SCADA system
Liquor tanks gauges and steam valves
Production Director Richard Westwood and Head Brewer Richard Frost
Brewery Manager Hugh Smith
Engineer Colin Walton tends his SCADA system
Cask Manager Paul Robinson checks beer clarity
2003 Banks's Bitter 4 pack
2003 Banks's Original 4 pack
2003 Banks's Original Smooth 4 pack
2003 Banks's Barley Goldl 4 pack
From a Leek Town FC programme 1995