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General view of brewery frontage
Looking back down the yard towards the brewhouse
The Cottage hospitality centre
Loading bay with brewhouse behind
The brewery stack has a kink in it!
Outbuildings and brewery stack
Mill plate showing it was renovated by Peter Steggles in 1994
Brewer Paul Wood checks the copper
Mash tun run off control station
Mash tun run off control valves
Picking up the spent grains
Imhoff cones for checking break performance
Carton of dried yeast for brewing the lager
Yeast storage tanks perhaps
A pair of sterile filters
Heating coil from an old copper for decoration and part of the old open hopback by Thomas Ryder, Knott Mill works, Manchester
Casks of Harvest Ale 2001 awaiting transfer to B United in the States
Newly built casks of Harvest Ale
More casks of Harvest Ale. The different coloured shives denote different spirits used to condition the new casks
Brewer Paul Wood with the visitors material display
Cooper Ray Dutson making a pin for export