Moorhouses Brewery – 24 November 2011
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Moorhouse's Brewery, Burnley- Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 24 November 2011
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The original brewery we visited in 2004 has been replaced by a new 100brl unit, warehouse and hospitality centre. Microdat did a turnkey installation costing £4.2m
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A view across the fermenter tops to the mash tun and hop back below the copper and grist case. The brewplant is by Musk and the vessels from Velo
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The decorative panels from the old brewery surround the outside seating area
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Inside the 80 seat hospitality area
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Pendle Hill in the background
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Perfection on the road by Mercedes
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The trunking wagon
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Byworth boiler
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Atlas Copco air compressor unit
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This swinging malt intake unit is supposed to stop malt tippers damaging the building cladding
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Four roller mill by Microdat
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Mash tun and hopback
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The copper
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Seepex pump to remove the spent grains
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An enclosed underback where Ragus sugar blocks are dissolved
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The external copper calandria arrangement
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The spent grain trailer
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Brewhouse CIP unit with Holchem detergents
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Yeast is kept in suspension by pumping
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There are twelve FVs, four 50brl and eight 100brl. The larger vessels have cooling panels to allow part filling
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Four 50brl and a single 100brl with two racking tanks beyond
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Under the fermenters
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The four station cask racker and the washer on the right
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There are two beer peristaltic pumps and two smaller ones for isinglass working in sequence; filling while the operator carries out shiving and positioning the next cask on the other two heads
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The Microdat washer works at 240 pieces an hour
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Close-up of the cask racking range
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View of the warehouse area
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Brewers Mark Bennett (ex Boddington's Breweries Ltd) and Dan Casaru ( ex Joseph Holt Ltd)
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MD David Grant pulls me a pint