Joule's Brewery Ltd, Market Drayton, Shropshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 25 October 2010
Celebrating 36 years since Joule & Sons Ltd in Stone closed. Beer at 1974 prices
Joules memorabilia abounds
Joules memorabilia abounds
Wood and Joules memorabilia abounds
A Mouseman mouse, there are seven to find. All recovered from the Board Room of Grattans (the catalogue people) in Bradford
More Grattan decorative carvings
The Red Lion pub prominently badged with the Joules name
The Mouse Room connects the old pub to the new brewery
Joules brand new brew tower with the Mouse Room and pub entrance on the right and windows to see brewing operations on the left
Brewery logo and name incised into a block of limestone
The decorative finial is a copy of those on the old warehouses in Stone
The high ceiling in the malt loft
The Alan Ruddock AR 2000 mill
The grist case above the Steels masher seems to hang in the air
The mash tun (left) and copper
Looking down on the hop back
The mash tun and grist case easily seen from outside
Inside the mash tun showing the graining arms
The base of the copper, external calandria and hop back
Below the mash tun showing the Seepex pump for graining
The hop back lower manway to scrape out the hops
Below the copper showing the circulation pump and the external boiler
The well shrouded control point by the mash tun with internet facility to view and control operations from the brewer’s bed.
A tiny wort heat exchanger, the benefit of glycol cooling
The FV room with the insulated vessels awaiting oak cladding. Note the lower support ring
The Microdat two head racker with peristaltic pumps for beer and finings metering
Brewing in 1960 from Anthony Healey’s ledgers
Proprietor Steve Nuttall pulls a pint at 15p