Donnington Brewery - Gallery
0 DSCF0012 Welcome to the Donnington Brewery 1 helpful roadsign A helpful road sign near Stow on the Wold 10 brewery entrance The tree lined brewery approach 11 brewery 2 The picturesque limestone brewery. The swans are waiting for the spent grains 11 long vista A long shot of Donnington Brewery 12 brewery The brewhouse 13 brewery 3 The pagoda of a disused malt house 14 brewery 4 This is surely one of England's most picturesque breweries? 15 weather vane The weather vane 16 DSCF0025 Another view of the weather vane 19 DSCF0055 The River Dickler from the office window 20 outside waterwheel The standby water wheel 21 water pumps Water powered water pumps 23 gear wheels The gearing to drive the pumps 24 DSCF0049 The belt drive and the piston for the wort pump 25 DSCF0044 The wort pump drive from the other side 26 wort pump 1 Detail of the wort pump 28 malt hoist Malt is hoisted by water power 29 malt store Bags of Eastern Counties Pale Malt by Crisps 30 DSCF0022 Weighing the malt 32 DSCF0034 The four roller Boby mill recovered from Ruddles 33 DSCF0031 The Boby mill 34 mash tun for crisps Sacks of malt with the mash tun behind 37 DSCF0026 The grist case and mash tun 38 DSCF0020 Hopback beside the mash tun 39 DSCF0019 The mash tun 40 mash tun 2 Mash tun close up 41 DSCF0050 Mash tun plates 42 DSCF0010 Spent grain disposal - no problem 43 underback The wort underback 44 copper steps Up the wooden steps to the open copper 45 open copper The calandria in the open copper 46 DSCF0036 Another view of the open copper 47 DSCF0029 The copper casting valve 48 DSCF0040 The main into the hopback 50 hopback The hopback 51 DSCF0059 The wort receiver and paraflow heat exchanger 52 paraflow and wort receiver The wort receiver and paraflow heat exchanger again 54 collection vessel The collection vessel with very small impeller 55 FV room There are six 18 brl open rounds 56 FV An FV waiting to rack 57 yeast skimming Yeast is skimmed by a pump into a large bucket 58 DSCF0056 A venerable quadrant weigh scale by Salter 59 DSCF0054 Fermenting records 60 cask washer A single station cask washer by Thonnart 65 sample room Sample casks and stock for racked bright sales 66 DSCF0069 Casks and polypins awaiting despatch 68 DSCF0071 The bottle washer 69 DSCF0072 Cases rescued from Bentleys Yorkshire Breweries at Woodlesford 70 DSCF0074 A view of the bottling line 71 DSCF0076 Inside the bottling hall 72 DSCF0075 An old centrifuge and another belt drive 73 claude arkell Proprieter Claude Arkell 74 DSCF0030 Claude Arkell outside his brewery 75 claud and mill pond Claude Arkell and his mill pond 76 val teale Brewery Manager Val Teale 80 posed pub garden Donnington has 15 country pubs popular with walkers 81 DSCF0032 A calendar from 1976 showing the Donnington pubs