Moorhouses Brewery - 6 May 2004
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Moorhouse's Brewery, Burnley- Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 6 May 2004
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Moorhouses made hop bitters from 1865 until 1978. It was bought by Michael Ryan who started brewing beer. The business passed to Alan Hutchinson with a chain of hotels to supply in 1982. Bill Parkinson bought it in 1985
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The brewery makes much play from the Pendle Witches. Ten unfortunates were hanged for witchcraft back in 1612
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Witch insignia adorn the walls of the distribution centre
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The original building from 1870 and the Nissan pick up.
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Another view of the old brewery buildings
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There is a distribution building and offices across the Accrington Road
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Premier Bitter was first brewed in 1978 and is still the biggest seller
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No 2 and No 4 sellers on the bar
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A pair of venerable vessels are occasionally used for small brews. On the right is a 6brl open copper and on the left a 4brl boiling vessel originally from a jam factory
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The open copper
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The coil in a jam boiler
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The boiler as the brewery uses lots of hot water for cleaning
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The two roller malt is by Law Denis
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Malt from Bairds
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The 1988 SPR plant. The mash tun is on the left and copper on the right. The centre vessel is an unused whirlpool soon to be converted into a second copper. Blocks of Ragus sugar waiting to be added to the copper
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The grist conveyor and the cone hydrator waiting to be reaffixed after cleaning
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The hydrator cone (upside down). A typical mash is 700kg
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The mash tun plates up for cleaning
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There is 370brl of fermenting capacity and some 13,000brl are brewed annually
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The wort heat exchanger and some of the fermenting vessels by Abbfab from Bolton
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A Katcher pressure jet adapted to blast hot water into a revolving cask . Note the vent to suck the diesel fumes outside
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A batch of new firkins
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Liam Taggart scrubs the outside of the casks with a scotch pad
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Head Brewer Peter Goldsborough counts out copper fining tablets
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Graham Bailey filling casks straight from FV
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MD David Grant