Lancaster Brewery - 18 February 2013
Lancaster Brewery Co, Lancaster - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 18 February 2013
Phil Simpson and Matt Jackson ran a successful small pub chain and started brewing elsewhere in 2005
The brewery moved to a new site in 2011
The large industrial building has solar panels on the roof
There is a huge space for outdoor festival events like Glastonbrewery
An anaerobic digester enclosed in ISO shipping containers
The brewery van
Welcome to the diner
There are seats for 250 folk
A well stocked shop for beer and merchandise
The beer range is deliberately simple - Black, Red, Blonde, Amber and Straw
CFB vertical gas fired boiler
A pair of 22 tonne Colinson malt silos
The top of the grain handling system
The brewery fills bags of crushed malt for the local nano breweries
The Alan Hubbard AR2000 two roller malt mill and visitor samples
General view of the brewplant beyond a pile of washed casks
Grange Engineering mash tun and underback on the right and copper behind
The mash hydrator
Inside the mash tun
The underback in action
The spent grain is removed on a belt conveyor….
…to be taken away by a local pig farmer
The copper with the plates which hold back the hops taken up for cleaning. The float volume gauge has to go through a hole in the roof when the vessel is full.
A pair of hop seed filters
Yeast in the fridge
collecting the top crop of yeast…
…using a portable pump
A healthy yeast head
General view of the fermenters and the portable CIP unit in the foreground
The three station ask washer again by Grange Engineering
The jack back above the racking lanes. The floating firkin is to catch any fob.
Adding isinglass finings by hand
Zapping labels on casks about to be dispatched
Finished goods store
Sample casks are kept for the entire declared shelf life and are rolled four times
Operations Manager Mark Westall with Ray Penny, the consultant on the project aka the Beer bloke. HMS Lancaster was apparent one of the few Royal Navy ships with an all male crew but that was in 2013.
