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The 2002 award winner from the British Beer Mat Collectors Society
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Bathams Bitter pump clip
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The brewery is behind the Vine (aka the Bull and Bladder) pub in Brierley Hill
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Brewer Ken Smith mashing in
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Mashing
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Using a traditional mashing paddle
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Inside the Maitland hydrator
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Checking the mashing heat - 149.5oF precisely
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Oxygenation the wort in FV causes some trub flotation which is skimmed off after 24 hours
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Collecting the wort
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Inside a fermenter showing the attemperation coils and parachute skimmer
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The parachute awaiting dropping into the yeast head
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Detail of the parachute lowering mechanism
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The open copper showing the gas heated coil and a frame holding six blocks of Ragus sugar
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Wort from the mash tun is directed on to the sugar blocks
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Sparging in progress
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Heriot Watt student David Birch adds finings direct to cask before dispatch
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Racking a hogshead. The cask will be loose shived until fining
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The yeast from the parachute is collected in a barm trolley with a canvas cloth which filters out some of the yeast ale
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Thick yeast is stored in pails in a cool room alongside casks of Murphys finings treatments
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Nozzle for steaming casks
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Moravek built this cask external cleaner
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In the racking room, notice the tubes in the ceiling from the parachutes
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The copper is direct gas fired and makes superb toast
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Tim Batham with a section of the furred up mashing liquor pipe
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Boby mill ex Grays of Chelmsford
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The brewery tower showing the sack hoist and the repairs since brewing began in 1921
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The steam boiler
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The first and last casks in the rack are always filled into hogsheads and sold in the pub next door
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The wort is oxygenated after collection for an hour at 30L per minute
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The locally fabricated conical hop back from 1985, fitted with a lid by AB UK in 1997
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A view of the fermenting room
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Manually cleaning an FV
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Another view of the FVs
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The brewery chimney stack
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The gas burner for the copper
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Ragus blocks for the next brew
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The open copper on the boil
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The Ragus sugar store
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The cellar at the 'Bull' - nice to see hogsheads again
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Stainless glass signage at the 'Bull'