Hebridean Brewing Co - 16 August 2006

Hebridean Brewing Co, Staveley, Cumbria - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 16 August 2006

• 
  The brewery was founded in 2001 by Andy Ribbens
• 
  Hebridean beers - Clansman at 3.9%ABV is treated with a First Gold hop tea and caramel to make Black, Islander has late Cascades at 4.8%ABV and 7.5%ABV Berserker is a beer to be respected
• 
  The brewery was set up in an old bus repair shop in Stornoway
• 
  The brewery transit van
• 
  Entrance to the brewery shop
• 
  Inside the shop
• 
  The Fulton boiler can produce six times as much steam as is currently needed
• 
  The filtration and packaging cell on the left, fermentation cell and Fulton boiler in the corner
• 
  Malt from Simpsons is crushed on a two roller bruiser from Bamfords
• 
  The 10brl plant was originally a pilot brewery for Banks in Wolverhampton
• 
  This pump takes boiled wort from the copper base and injects it back tangentially to create a whirlpool action
• 
  Two 10brl FVs from Shobwood
• 
  Old jacketed cellar tanks for conditioning
• 
  A series of Pall filters, 10 microns, 1micron and 0.45 micron for sterile filtration
• 
  A Moravek CW250 twin head bottling machine
• 
  A portable pressure vessel for kegging trials
• 
  Hand crowning
• 
  Hand labelling
• 
  This shrink wrapper was not working and bottles were collated into cartons with dividers at five times the cost
• 
  A mixture of casks, ,metal and Cypherco plastics
• 
  More casks
• 
  Home made cask washer
• 
  A stack of Huber mini casks
• 
  The brewery was carrying out a finings trial using a collection of old milk bottles
• 
  Proprietor Andy Ribbens inspects the clarity