Tennent Wellpark Brewery - 31 August 2001
Tennent Ltd, Caledonian Breweries, Glasgow - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 31 August 2001
In the C16th there were six breweries alongside the Molindinar Burn which now runs under the brewery. One called Dryfoot was owned by Robert Tennent and he is mentioned in the Incorporation of Maltmem dated 1556.
The brewery gate on Duke Street
Murals abound
As part of the Carling solution to the breakup of Bass, the Scottish and Ulster breweries passed to Interbrew
Looking down the yard towards the brewhouse
Inter plant rivalry from the old Bass days
The brewhouse buildings
The Yellow can is a Scottish icon
Another view in the brewery yard
Loch Katrine is now carbon filtered at intake
The Meura 2001 mash filter in the 1996 brewhouse
View of the fermentation working area
There are six yeast pumps for warm collection
Another view of the peristaltic yeast pumps
Screens in the yeast room office
Entrance to the new yeast room
Eight 80hL yeast tanks and one 60hL working tank
Plant can be rapidly isolated by pulling out the socket
The low shear agitator in a yeast storage tank
Close up showing rouser motor, CIP supply, rotation detection and top pressure control
Waste cones prevent spillages on the floor
Routing valves below a yeast tank
A load cell on the yeast storage tanks
View of the Centec membrane deaeration system
Heat exchanger and membrane housings on the Centec deaeration plant
A cross section of the cross flow membrane bundle
A heat exchanger cools the deaerated water to 1oC.
The original nitrogen sparging deaeration plant
Gerni 160 bar high pressure water generator
High pressure hose units in the fermenting room
There are red bonnetted Realm auto valves everywhere
The PCB under the Realm bonnet
Addition tanks in the line to maturation tank
Finished cans in the warehouse
Old roller pack conveyors
The old palletiser
The arm on the change over station has driven rollers to direct the packs
The drive motor on the changeover arm
The low back pressure set up, rollers instead of dead plates
High friction conveyors bring the packs up to the palletiser level
Detail of the small flexon rollers
Conical rollers take the packs gently round corners
Note how the old palletiser did not consistently centre the packs on the pallet
No packs protruding from the new palletiser
Packs are held back with well padded barriers
Packs change direction when they touch vertical spindles
Packs move towards the palletiser apron
The apron forming the layers of the finished pallet
Packs without trays
Old packs with trays
A 1937 and 2001 can of Tennents
Packaging manager John Kelly
Brewer Keith Lugton in the new yeast room
The brewing team in front of Hansen propagator No 200; Keith Lugton, Gavin Barrack, Graeme Fisher, Sandy Manson, Ivor Reid and John Kelly
Krones engineer Tom Earley with John Kelly
