Lancaster Brewery - 18 February 2013
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Lancaster Brewery Co, Lancaster - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 18 February 2013
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Phil Simpson and Matt Jackson ran a successful small pub chain and started brewing elsewhere in 2005
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The brewery moved to a new site in 2011
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The large industrial building has solar panels on the roof
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There is a huge space for outdoor festival events like Glastonbrewery
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An anaerobic digester enclosed in ISO shipping containers
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The brewery van
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Welcome to the diner
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There are seats for 250 folk
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A well stocked shop for beer and merchandise
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The beer range is deliberately simple - Black, Red, Blonde, Amber and Straw
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CFB vertical gas fired boiler
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A pair of 22 tonne Colinson malt silos
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The top of the grain handling system
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The brewery fills bags of crushed malt for the local nano breweries
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The Alan Hubbard AR2000 two roller malt mill and visitor samples
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General view of the brewplant beyond a pile of washed casks
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Grange Engineering mash tun and underback on the right and copper behind
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The mash hydrator
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Inside the mash tun
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The underback in action
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The spent grain is removed on a belt conveyor….
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…to be taken away by a local pig farmer
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The copper with the plates which hold back the hops taken up for cleaning. The float volume gauge has to go through a hole in the roof when the vessel is full.
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A pair of hop seed filters
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Yeast in the fridge
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collecting the top crop of yeast…
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…using a portable pump
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A healthy yeast head
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General view of the fermenters and the portable CIP unit in the foreground
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The three station ask washer again by Grange Engineering
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The jack back above the racking lanes. The floating firkin is to catch any fob.
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Adding isinglass finings by hand
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Zapping labels on casks about to be dispatched
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Finished goods store
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Sample casks are kept for the entire declared shelf life and are rolled four times
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Operations Manager Mark Westall with Ray Penny, the consultant on the project aka the Beer bloke. HMS Lancaster was apparent one of the few Royal Navy ships with an all male crew but that was in 2013.