St Austell Brewery - 17 August 2010

Façade of the 1893 brewery
The brewhouse and whirlpool at night
The brewhouse and whirlpool by day
Visitor facilities
Visitor facilities
Wine and beer sales
Mix a case
A party of vistors inspecting the mash tun
Inside one of five new 150 enclosed squares. Note the manway at the rear end to facilitate hosing off residues
Pumped sampling loop on the new FVs
Data screen for FV18
QC laboratory
A pair of new conical fermenters
Working shelter for DPV4
Seepex pump to push spent grains from silo to farmers wagon
Spent grain tank
There are 36 wooden firkins for the St Kew pub in Wadebridge
The casks are maintained by Wadworth since the cooper retired
A pair of yeast storage tanks from Wrexham
Changeover station
Using a Palamatic manual handling aid on the cask line
Rented casks for more distant customers
Two mash tuns
Velo filter
Two new 75brl bright beer tanks by Moeschle
Sterile filtration by dominickhunter and carbonation by Moravek
Plaque on the new bottling line
General view of the 4800bph bottling line
Depalletising the empties
Empties on the way for a rinse
Empties marshalled into single file
Rinser
Filler
Crowner
Hopper full of crowns
Crown elevator
Shrinkwrap end of the tray and shrink machine
Pre-erected trays
A turntable for stretchwrapping
Loading casks for the St Columb depot 12 miles away
Inside the new depot
Inside the new depot
Inside the new depot
Picking in operation
Simon Jackson, Chief Executive of the Institute of Brewing and Head Brewer Roger Ryman
Guillermo Alvarez from San Antonio in Texas

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