Joules Brewery Ltd - 25 October 2010
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Joule's Brewery Ltd, Market Drayton, Shropshire - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 25 October 2010
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Bass closed Joule & Sons Ltd at Stone in 1974 (see: Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd. The name was bought from Coors by Steve Nuttall in 2009 and a new brewery was built behind the Red Lion pub on Market Drayton High Street
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Celebrating 36 years since Joule & Sons Ltd in Stone closed. Beer at 1974 prices
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Joules memorabilia abounds
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Joules memorabilia abounds
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Wood and Joules memorabilia abounds
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More memorabilia
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A Mouseman mouse, there are seven to find. All recovered from the Board Room of Grattans (the catalogue people) in Bradford
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More Grattan decorative carvings
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The Red Lion pub prominently badged with the Joules name
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The Mouse Room connects the old pub to the new brewery
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Joules brand new brew tower with the Mouse Room and pub entrance on the right and windows to see brewing operations on the left
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Brewery logo and name incised into a block of limestone
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The decorative finial is a copy of those on the old warehouses in Stone
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The high ceiling in the malt loft
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Sacks of Boortmalt
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Horizontal Fulton boiler
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The Alan Ruddock AR 2000 mill
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The grist case above the Steels masher seems to hang in the air
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The mash tun (left) and copper
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Looking down on the hop back
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The mash tun and grist case easily seen from outside
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Copper
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Inside the mash tun showing the graining arms
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Inside the copper
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Inside the hop back
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The base of the copper, external calandria and hop back
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Underneath the mash tun
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Below the mash tun showing the Seepex pump for graining
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The hop back lower manway to scrape out the hops
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Below the copper showing the circulation pump and the external boiler
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The well shrouded control point by the mash tun with internet facility to view and control operations from the brewer’s bed.
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A tiny wort heat exchanger, the benefit of glycol cooling
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The FV room with the insulated vessels awaiting oak cladding. Note the lower support ring
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The Microdat two head racker with peristaltic pumps for beer and finings metering
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Brewing in 1960 from Anthony Healey’s ledgers
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Proprietor Steve Nuttall pulls a pint at 15p
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Head Brewer Adam Goodall