Harviestoun Brewery - 12 November 2013
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Harviestoun Brewery Ltd, Alva, Clackmannanshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 12 November 2013
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The mouse's name is Harvie
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Bitter and Twisted, originally to be called Buchanan IPA until Ken Brooker got a driving ban in 1997
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Old Engine Oil , think gloopy and 6%ABV
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Engineers Reserve is a stronger version of OEO at 9%ABV and very black
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OEO in Highland Park casks emerges after six months as Ola Dubh - 8%ABV.
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There are 12, 16 and 18yo variants
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30yo casks were used for the brewery's 30th anniversary brew
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The brewery buildings with the Ochil Hills behind
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An adjoining building for finished goods storage and an increasing number of Ola Dubh casks
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Local delivery van - note the cherished registration
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Refrigerated hop store
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The Fulton boiler
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The Industrial Techniques Brewhouse ex St Austell, the malt bin above the two roller mill is on the left
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Close up of the malt mill
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The plant has a horizontal hot liquor tank, grist case, two mash tuns and a copper
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Two mash tuns
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Close up of the copper
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Graining door on the mash tun
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Hops are retained by an upstand in the copper and removed to conveyor through the door
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There are 30 and 60hL fermenters and yeast is pitched via the diaphragm pump
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The racking tanks on a mezzanine level.
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CIP tanks with hot liquor tanks behind
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One of a pair of single station cask washers by L+H Stainless
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A small bottling facility for trials etc - the rest is done at Marstons.
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Ola Dubh in Highland Park whisky casks
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Finished goods store and fork lift truck
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Finished casks in refrigerated store
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A few of the brewery's many prize certificates
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Head Brewer Stuart Cail since 1996, he arrived from Heriot Watt, Vaux, Butcombe and Daleside
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Assistant Brewer Amy Cockburn shows how yeast is fed into the conical fermenters