Brain's Dragon Brewery - 16 September 2019
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Brain & Co. Ltd, Dragon Brewery, Cardiff - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 16 September 2019
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S A Brain’s new Dragon Brewery on Pacific Road in Tremorfa, Cardiff.
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The posh hall with receptionist Catherine Baker at her desk
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Brains, the toast of the Valleys
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Dragon themed keg fonts
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The range of Brain’s cask beers. The tanks behind are just fronts for decoration.
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Malt from Crisp
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The Chronos Richardson malt weigher moved from the old plant with the specialist malt hopper in the foreground.
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The Buhler four roller mill with easy gap adjustment. Salts are added on the way to the grist case.
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The brewhouse was supplied by SSV via Lehui. The vessels to the rear are the mash mixer, lauter, copper and whirlpool. The pre-run vessel is on this side of the working area.
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The brew vessels are at a mezzanine level; in view are the whirlpool and copper and the vents for the lauter and mash mixer.
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The new SSV copper at S A Brain showing the small additions pot
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Grist hydrator
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Wort sampling stage
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General view of the processing area; yeast vessels in the foreground and fermenters behind
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Three hop pots.
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The external copper calandria
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The two stage wort chillers.
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The copper vapour condenser
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View along the processing area walkway
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Yeast collection vessels
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CIP, carbonation, nitrogenation and dilution, you can just see the four high Pall Supapak filter in the centre with the centrifuge out of sight behind.
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The water deaeration tower
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Underneath the conical DPVs, all neatly piped up
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Green beer centrifuge
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Deaerated liquor control
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Sterile filtration
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Looking down on the keg line; pasteuriser on the right and M+F line on the left
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The beer and smaller isinglass finings meters on the cask filling line
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Beyond the keg line is the cask racking area
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A view of the cask washer by Brewology and the keystone presser-iner on the right.
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Close up of the cask washer
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The keg line from M+F; there is an external washer on the right, a six head washer racker at the back with weighing and manual capping and labelling on the left
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Finished goods
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Road tanker intake and filling
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External 250hL vessels from the tanker bay
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The narrow entrance to the brewery. External 250hL vessels on the left and malt silos to the right.
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Four 250hL external fermenters and two BBTs for tanker operations.
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Senior Brands Marketing Manager David Knowles pull me another pint of Rising Sun.
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Head Brewer Bill Dobson pulls me a pint of Rising Sun in his sample cellar