Hesket Newmarket Brewery – 5 June 2007
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Hesket Newmarket Brewery, Cumbia - Roger Putnam - 5 June 2007
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Hesket Newmarket is a village of some 400 folk in the Lake District. The brewery was built in an old barn behind the Crown Inn in 1988
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The Old Crown pub now sells only a quarter of the brewery's output
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The pub sold the brewery to 66 local shareholders who paid £1500 each for a share back in 1999 becoming the UK's first cooperative brewery. 147 shareholdes bought the pub as well in 2003.
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Malcolm Hawksworth has leased the pub since 2006. The beers are named after local hills apart from Great Cock Up which is the nation's only 3.0%ABV stout after a double addition of black malt!
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The delivery van
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The brewery buildings
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Robin Murray, one of the shareholders earning £50 a day doing a mash to help out. Shareholders get £100 annual dividend or two firkins
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There are a pair of 150kg mash tuns and two electrically heated coppers.
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The valentine device to control wort run off, it cannot go flat as the second mash tun is too far forward!
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The brew plant is by Abbott of Newark, its first in the UK. The tiny wort heat exchanger between one of the sets of MT and copper
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The string of sterilising filter cartridges, 10micron, 1 micron and 0.45micron
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The four head bottling device supplied by AB(UK)
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Most casks are Cypherco plastic
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Brewer since 2002 Mike Parker ex Bass at Sheffield, Runcorn and Tadcaster as well as running his own pub demonstrates the Reunion cask widget.