Moorhouses Brewery – 24 November 2011
Moorhouse's Brewery, Burnley- Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 24 November 2011
The original brewery we visited in 2004 has been replaced by a new 100brl unit, warehouse and hospitality centre. Microdat did a turnkey installation costing £4.2m
A view across the fermenter tops to the mash tun and hop back below the copper and grist case. The brewplant is by Musk and the vessels from Velo
The decorative panels from the old brewery surround the outside seating area
Inside the 80 seat hospitality area
Pendle Hill in the background
Perfection on the road by Mercedes
The trunking wagon
Byworth boiler
Atlas Copco air compressor unit
This swinging malt intake unit is supposed to stop malt tippers damaging the building cladding
Four roller mill by Microdat
Mash tun and hopback
The copper
Seepex pump to remove the spent grains
An enclosed underback where Ragus sugar blocks are dissolved
The external copper calandria arrangement
The spent grain trailer
Brewhouse CIP unit with Holchem detergents
Yeast is kept in suspension by pumping
There are twelve FVs, four 50brl and eight 100brl. The larger vessels have cooling panels to allow part filling
Four 50brl and a single 100brl with two racking tanks beyond
Under the fermenters
The four station cask racker and the washer on the right
There are two beer peristaltic pumps and two smaller ones for isinglass working in sequence; filling while the operator carries out shiving and positioning the next cask on the other two heads
The Microdat washer works at 240 pieces an hour
Close-up of the cask racking range
View of the warehouse area
Brewers Mark Bennett (ex Boddington's Breweries Ltd) and Dan Casaru ( ex Joseph Holt Ltd)
MD David Grant pulls me a pint
