Donnington Brewery - Gallery

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  Welcome to the Donnington Brewery
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  A helpful road sign near Stow on the Wold
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  The tree lined brewery approach
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  The picturesque limestone brewery. The swans are waiting for the spent grains
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  A long shot of Donnington Brewery
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  The brewhouse
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  The pagoda of the malt house disused since the 1960s
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  This is surely one of England's most picturesque breweries?
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  The weather vane
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  Another view of the weather vane
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  The River Dickler from the office window
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  The standby water wheel
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  Water powered water pumps
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  The gearing to drive the pumps
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  The belt drive and the piston for the wort pump
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  The wort pump drive from the other side
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  Detail of the wort pump
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  Malt is hoisted by water power
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  Bags of Eastern Counties Pale Malt by Crisps
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  Weighing the malt
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  The four roller Boby mill recovered from Ruddles
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  The Boby mill
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  Sacks of malt with the mash tun behind
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  The grist case and mash tun
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  Hopback beside the mash tun, mashing is driven by water power
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  The 450kg mash tun
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  Mash tun close up
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  Mash tun plates
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  Spent grain disposal - no problem
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  The wort underback
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  Up the wooden steps to the open copper
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  The calandria in the open copper
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  Another view of the open copper
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  The copper casting valve
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  The main into the hopback
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  The hopback
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  The wort receiver and paraflow heat exchanger
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  There is a fine sieve in the wort receiver to retain any hop powder particles
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  The collection vessel with very small impeller
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  There are six 18 brl open rounds
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  An FV waiting to rack
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  Yeast is skimmed by a pump into a large bucket
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  A venerable quadrant weigh scale by Salter
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  Fermenting records
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  A single station cask washer by Thonnart
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  Sample casks and stock for racked bright sales
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  Casks and polypins awaiting despatch
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  The bottle washer
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  Cases rescued from Bentleys Yorkshire Breweries at Woodlesford
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  A view of the bottling line
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  Inside the bottling hall
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  An old centrifuge and another belt drive
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  Proprieter Claude Arkell
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  Claude Arkell outside his brewery
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  Claude Arkell and his mill pond
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  Brewery Manager Val Teale
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  Donnington has 15 country pubs popular with walkers
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  A calendar from 1976 showing the Donnington pubs