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Harveys at Lewes on a crisp November afternoon
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The brewery sits right beside the River Ouse
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The brewery was designed by William Bradford and built in 1881
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This shot shows the ornate fenestrated malt sack hoist
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The brewery yard
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The oriel window aka the arse end of the Victory is the brewers office
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The brewery tower is a prominent Lewes landmark
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The weathervane on the top of the tower dates from 1621 and was discovered as the foundations were being dug in 1880
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Detail of the top of the brewing tower
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The malt room
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Another view of the malt room
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The sugar store with blocks of Ragus invert No3
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The working hop store - cone hops are in exclusive use
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The malt chute down to the mill
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The Boby mill
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Signage on the Malt Room door
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The two mash tuns mash 4.25 tonnes of malt at 0700. The second was built by Briggs in 1985. Note the 'lighthouse' run off controller in the foreground.
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The wort safe from the pair of mash tuns
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Last runnings
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Sparging the old mash tun
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The 'old' 60brl copper was made by Forsyths only in 1999
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The 50 brl Briggs copper from 1985
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Copper on the boil
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Copperside man Kevin Richardson adding the late hops
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View of the wort safe and the two coppers
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The simple lines of the Forsyths copper
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The sugar dissolving vessel for primings
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Harveys has two grain trailers and four smaller ones for spent hops
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Spent hops on their way to a local horticulturalist
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Collecting wort and a part covered attemperator panel
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Parachute skimming in the fermenting vessels
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Lots of detail on the vessel blackboard for FT2
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Collection in progress into FT10
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The parachute lowering gear on FT12
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A barm trough in refrigerated storage
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The old cask washer
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The new Microdat cask washer
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Detail of the Microdat cask washer
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All the controls for the cask washer are well above floor level as a flood precaution
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Casks are filled directly from the FVs above
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T100 half ounce compressed hop pellets for dry hopping the casks
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Another view of the four head racking line
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The ale stores. Casks are fined just before despatch and the polypin is collecting displaced ullage
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More casks and more ullage
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Brewer Ian Burgess completes his paperwork
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Traditional hand written ledgers
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Fermenting records in more ledgers
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Joint managing director Miles Jenner showing the level of the flood in 2000
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The posts will prevent the oil tank floating away if there is another inundation
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The Wellman Robey boiler is new after the floods
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Detail of the boiler controls
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The old steam is usually fired up only on Christmas Eve
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The boiler makers plate - Pontifex and Wood
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Engineer Richard Spiller with his pride and joy
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A joy to behold and not unduly hidden behind modern safety mesh
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It is nippy on a November morning in the brewers office. There is a coal bucket but the fire is gas!
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An old Harveys advertising sign
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Rye Pottery provided the sample room tiles
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Every sample room should be well decorated
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Detail of the tile design
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A local delivery vehicle - all beer is sold within 50 miles
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The sign to Harveys largest account - the brewery shop
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Harveys do 18 bottled beers...
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...many in presentation packs...
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...along with jugs and other memorabilia
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Miles Jenner does not have far to go to work
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Miles Jenner at his sample room door
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This fine old jug dates from 1905 and R&H Jenner's South London Brewery on the Southwark Bridge Road near the Elephant and Castle. Brewing without the Jenners continued until 1964