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Castle Rock Brewery, Nottingham - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 6 January 2011
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Castle Rock was founded in 1997 by Chris Holmes
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The brewery relocated from Bramcote to outhouses at Tynemill's Vat & Fiddle pub. The new brewery can be seen at the rear
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The new 40 brl brewery on Traffic Street
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Precrushed malt in sack from Muntons and Fawcetts
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Malt ready to be tipped into the grist hopper
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Malt tipping in progress
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An old pair of jeans feeds the grist from conveyor to grist case. 1100kg are used per 40 brl brew
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The grist case
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The vents for the copper, its gas heating coil and the hot liquor tank
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The mash tun (right) and liquor tank viewed from above
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The wedge wire mash tun bottom
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Extra liquor injectors have been fitted below the tangential grist hydrator
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The valentine run off arm and underback
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Low and high level switches in the ubderback to regulate flow to the copper
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The T C Williams gas heating coil in the copper rated at 205kW
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General view of the processing area. Most of the kit was made by Abbott and installed at Wild in Herefordshire which went bust before it could be used.
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Wort cooler and oxygen injection
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There are five 80 brl fermenters
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More fermenters
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Two 100 brl 'German' fermenters for cool fermentations with external coils at 40 and 80 brl levels
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Adding auxiliary finings before racking looks to be a hazardous operation
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A four station cask rinser to remove residuals before the main wash
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Washed cask stock prior to racking
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The old equipment awaiting sale
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Anyone want a 22brl brewplant?
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The gas coil in the old copper
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The embryo microbiology lab
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Elsie Mo was named from low colour Maris Otter L C M O!!
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Harvest Pale was CAMRA Champion Beer in 2007
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Hemlock was originally brewed by the Bramcote operation
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Head Brewer Adrian Redgrove with owner Chris Holmes