Isle of Skye Brewery - 16 August 2006
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Isle of Skye Brewing Co (Leann An Eilein), Uig, Isle of Skye - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 16 August 2006
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The brewery started in 1995 and has five main brands named after local hills, Bonny Prince Charlie and a 7%ABV winter warmer
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There are four transit vans …
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…covering hundreds of miles to over 200 drops.
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The brewery buildings and shop at Uig
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The brew plant end with a couple of CO2 cylinders
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View of the brewery from the ferry to Tarbert in the Outer Hebrides
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Specialist malt from Fawcetts
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The hop room is very constricted. All hops are cone
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Muntons pale malt amongst the fermenters
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Hop weighing complete
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The Fulton vertical boiler….
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…is housed in an old ISO container with the other half containing conditioning tanks with an oil tank on top
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The wooden grist case, mash tun in the foreground and copper copper at the back
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The 20 brl mash tun and copper by Archibld McMillan of Prestonpans, which also supkied tewo matching fermenters
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Brewer Norry MacLeod looks at the weather while mashing
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Mash almost all in
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Put the drain pipe grist chute back in its place
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Clean out the underback
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View of the copper from above
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The heating coil in the copper
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The copper coil and the sieve to hold back the hops
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Skimming the yeast which originally came from Wards.
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Two 20brl jacketed conditioning tanks
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Five more 5brl cellar tanks for conditioning in a coiled ISO container
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Labelling bottles for short in house runs, Belhaven do the larger brands
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A two head Moravek CT250 manual filler can do around 200bph
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Two head cask washer
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A cabinet for washing four Cornelius vessels at a time
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A pair of Cornelius pop concentrate containers adapted for beer dispense at the Uig Hotel
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The gas port is closed off, a pressure relief valve fitted and the spear shortened
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Merchandise in the brewery shop
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Proprietor Angus MacRuary and his wife Pam who does the brewing