Carlsberg Tetley, Northampton - Gallery
DSCF3899 The brewery was opened in 1974 DSCF3900 The brewery was designed to incorporate the shape of a viking longboat - the prow is the brewhouse DSCF3901 Corporate offices on site DSCF3902 Road tanker loading bay DSCF3903 Another view of road tankers DSCF3988 The bare concrete does present a rather austere facade DSCF3989 Steam issues from the viking longboat! DSCF3990 Two malt silos. One has nine 100 tonne cells and other six 200t DSCF3991 Malt wagon unloading DSCF3992 The chisel bottom of the silo cells in created by a huge conical bottom to the structure DSCF3993 The outfeed conveyors from the malt silos DSCF3999 CO2 collection plant by Union Engineering from Denmark DSCF4001 60% of the beer bitterness comes from liquid extract. It is kept warm in a Decker cabinet. DSCF4002 The extract is tipped from a drum into the working tank DSCF4003 This device slits hop pellet boxes - it was awaiting its cabinet DSCF4004 Hop pellets are fed into the hop pots. Wort picks them up and pumps the hops to the coppers DSCF4007 Another treatments pot DSCF4008 Inside the cavernous brewhouse DSCF4022 The malt screens are by Buhler DSCF4023 The Chronos Richardson malt weighers DSCF4024 The hammer mill within its acoustic and explosion proof box DSCF4025 This 12 tonne Meura mash filter was installed in 1998 DSCF4026 The wort balance tank on the Meura mash filter DSCF4031 The newer mash filter installed in 2002 DSCF4034 Below the mash filter showing the spent grains discharge silo DSCF4035 The discharge to the spent grains tanks DSCF4036 High above the brew vessels DSCF4037 The two mash filters are at right angles to eachother DSCF4047 Bare concrete walls in the brewhouse DSCF4055 The copper calandria by Huppmann DSCF4058 Taking a wort sample DSCF4062 The vessel in the foreground is the whirlpool with the wort prerun vessel behind DSCF4068 The whirlpool vessel DSCF4070 The mash vessel will process 12 tonnes every two hours giving twelve 650hL brews a day. There are two mash lines DSCF4071 One of 74 x 1500hL conical bottomed fermenters DSCF4076 Equipment on the top of a fermenter DSCF4077 A view from the riverbank of some of the 34 x 7000hL conditioning tanks. The working corridor is underground. DSCF4078 Filtrox candle filter DSCF4079 Some of the 14 x 1250hL horizontal bright beer tanks DSCF4080 440mL cans of Skol coming off two can lines DSCF4081 The Krones can filler and Ferrum seamer DSCF4082 A record week on No1 can line DSCF4089 Bottle conveyors with the Sander Hansen pasteuriser on the right DSCF4090 The 1998 Krones bottling line works at 54,000bph DSCF4091 Change parts for the bottling line DSCF4092 The 16 lane APV kegging line dates from 1993 and will fill 1000 50L kegs an hour DSCF4093 Locator board handling is still manual