Hebridean Brewing Co - 16 August 2006
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Hebridean Brewing Co, Staveley, Cumbria - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 16 August 2006
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The brewery was founded in 2001 by Andy Ribbens
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Hebridean beers - Clansman at 3.9%ABV is treated with a First Gold hop tea and caramel to make Black, Islander has late Cascades at 4.8%ABV and 7.5%ABV Berserker is a beer to be respected
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The brewery was set up in an old bus repair shop in Stornoway
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The brewery transit van
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Entrance to the brewery shop
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Inside the shop
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The Fulton boiler can produce six times as much steam as is currently needed
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The filtration and packaging cell on the left, fermentation cell and Fulton boiler in the corner
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Malt from Simpsons is crushed on a two roller bruiser from Bamfords
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The 10brl plant was originally a pilot brewery for Banks in Wolverhampton
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This pump takes boiled wort from the copper base and injects it back tangentially to create a whirlpool action
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Two 10brl FVs from Shobwood
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Old jacketed cellar tanks for conditioning
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A series of Pall filters, 10 microns, 1micron and 0.45 micron for sterile filtration
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A Moravek CW250 twin head bottling machine
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A portable pressure vessel for kegging trials
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Hand crowning
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Hand labelling
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This shrink wrapper was not working and bottles were collated into cartons with dividers at five times the cost
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A mixture of casks, ,metal and Cypherco plastics
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More casks
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Home made cask washer
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A stack of Huber mini casks
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The brewery was carrying out a finings trial using a collection of old milk bottles
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Proprietor Andy Ribbens inspects the clarity