Carlsberg Tetley, Northampton - Gallery
The brewery was opened in 1974
The brewery was designed to incorporate the shape of a viking longboat - the prow is the brewhouse
Corporate offices on site
Road tanker loading bay
Another view of road tankers
The bare concrete does present a rather austere facade
Steam issues from the viking longboat!
Two malt silos. One has nine 100 tonne cells and other six 200t
Malt wagon unloading
The chisel bottom of the silo cells in created by a huge conical bottom to the structure
The outfeed conveyors from the malt silos
CO2 collection plant by Union Engineering from Denmark
60% of the beer bitterness comes from liquid extract. It is kept warm in a Decker cabinet.
The extract is tipped from a drum into the working tank
This device slits hop pellet boxes - it was awaiting its cabinet
Hop pellets are fed into the hop pots. Wort picks them up and pumps the hops to the coppers
Another treatments pot
Inside the cavernous brewhouse
The malt screens are by Buhler
The Chronos Richardson malt weighers
The hammer mill within its acoustic and explosion proof box
This 12 tonne Meura mash filter was installed in 1998
The wort balance tank on the Meura mash filter
The newer mash filter installed in 2002
Below the mash filter showing the spent grains discharge silo
The discharge to the spent grains tanks
High above the brew vessels
The two mash filters are at right angles to each other
Bare concrete walls in the brewhouse
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