Carlsberg Tetley, Northampton - Gallery
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The brewery was opened in 1974
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The brewery was designed to incorporate the shape of a viking longboat - the prow is the brewhouse
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Corporate offices on site
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Road tanker loading bay
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Another view of road tankers
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The bare concrete does present a rather austere facade
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Steam issues from the viking longboat!
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Two malt silos. One has nine 100 tonne cells and other six 200t
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Malt wagon unloading
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The chisel bottom of the silo cells in created by a huge conical bottom to the structure
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The outfeed conveyors from the malt silos
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CO2 collection plant by Union Engineering from Denmark
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60% of the beer bitterness comes from liquid extract. It is kept warm in a Decker cabinet.
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The extract is tipped from a drum into the working tank
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This device slits hop pellet boxes - it was awaiting its cabinet
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Hop pellets are fed into the hop pots. Wort picks them up and pumps the hops to the coppers
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Another treatments pot
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Inside the cavernous brewhouse
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The malt screens are by Buhler
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The Chronos Richardson malt weighers
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The hammer mill within its acoustic and explosion proof box
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This 12 tonne Meura mash filter was installed in 1998
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The wort balance tank on the Meura mash filter
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The newer mash filter installed in 2002
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Below the mash filter showing the spent grains discharge trough
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The discharge to the spent grains tanks
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High above the brew vessels
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The two mash filters are at right angles to each other
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Bare concrete walls in the brewhouse
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The copper calandria by Huppmann
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Taking a wort sample
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The vessel in the foreground is the whirlpool with the wort prerun vessel behind
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The whirlpool vessel
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The mash vessel will process 12 tonnes every two hours giving twelve 650hL brews a day. There are two mash lines
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One of 74 x 1500hL conical bottomed fermenters
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Equipment on the top of a fermenter
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A view from the riverbank of some of the 34 x 7000hL conditioning tanks. The working corridor is underground.
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Filtrox candle filter
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Some of the 14 x 1250hL horizontal bright beer tanks
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440mL cans of Skol coming off two can lines
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The Krones can filler and Ferrum seamer
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A record week on No1 can line
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Bottle conveyors with the Sander Hansen pasteuriser on the right
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The 1998 Krones bottling line works at 54,000bph
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Change parts for the bottling line
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The 16 lane APV kegging line dates from 1993 and will fill 1000 50L kegs an hour
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Locator board handling is still manual