Palmer's Brewery - Gallery
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Old trade card
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Bicentenary Brew at 5%ABV
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4.2%ABV IPA
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2008 labels - 4.2%ABV Best Bitter
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2008 labels - Copper Ale at 3.7%ABV
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2008 labels - Dorset Gold golden ale at 4.2%ABV
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2008 labels - 5.5%ABV Tallyho
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Older trade card
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Pre 2008 Tallyho label
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Cask beer advert graphics
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Golden Cap is a local landmark - a 50.50 blend of Glen Grant malt with North British grain whisky
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Price list from 1894
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Price list from 1896
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The thatched brewery in the 1890s
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Brewery transport in the 1930s
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Photo of the rear of the brewery from Palmers archive
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Old advert
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Palmers logo from 2008
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Gable end decoration. No need for a weather vane; seagulls always face into the wind
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The river end of the brewhouse which was originally a mill. Palmers moved in in 1896
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Brewery buildings in brick and stone
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Entrance to the yard, reception is round the corner
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The famous thatched part of the brewery
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Another entrance
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Office door
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The wine shop across the road
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A view looking up at the malt intake end of the malt loft
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The rear of the brewery complete with water wheel, the grey cowl is on the copper to help draughting as it can be windy
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Stonework and kegs
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Internal doorways
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A view up into the roof space
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The waterwheel close up
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Waterwheel again
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Getting the waterwheel turning
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Waterwheel makers plate - 1879; there was no mains electricity until 1930
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View of the brewery across the River Brit
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Closeup of the thatch
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Belt drives
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Part of the malt loft
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Operators prefer the 50kg bag as it is easier to tip over the lip than the smaller 25kg
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Rest of the malt loft
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End view of 1885 Boby screen
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Venerable Boby four roller mill
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Marking the hot liquor tank float board prior to mashing
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The 1.5 tonne mash tun is wooden clad with a stainless top
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Grist case, Steels masher and mash tun
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Drive to the masher spindle
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Warm the pot first
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Checking the temperature and adjusting the grist slide
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Polished brass liquor control valve
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Mash tun almost all in
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Inside the empty mash tun
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Close up of the mash and sparge arm
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Run off across blocks of Ragus invert sugar
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The underback
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In the mash room
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Open copper
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Last runnings from the mash tun
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Seepex pump to clear the spent grains
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Grains dropping into a logoised wagon
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The open copper is heated by an external calandria
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The blower for the old coal fired copper fire
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Hop back
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Yeast room
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Wort runs into FV
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Yeast weigh scales
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A selection of stainless lined squares
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Rocky fermentation heads
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Attemperation coil in a round vessel
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Wooden lined fermenters
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FV2 by Wilsons of Frome
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Yeast cropping is carried out by lowering a yeast sluice to create a weir
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FV room tools including a golf club
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Finished yeast head
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Attemperation coil in a square vessel
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General view across the FVs
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Swing bend station
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Wort heat exchanger
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Old open cooler now redundant
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This open cooler will remain on the visitor route
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Smaller sample cooler
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The end of the cooler
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Another sample cooler
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Sample cooler complete with Imhoff cones
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The old cellar racking tank by Robert Morton
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Side door of the old Briggs tunnel pasteuriser - bottling is now carried out by Bath Ales
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This venerable Wagner cask washer was about to be replaced with a Microdat machine.
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Over to the wine shop
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Sales Director Cleeves Palmer (standing) with elder brother and MD John
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Head Brewer Darren Batten
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Shop manager Mark Banham
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Jim Traquair and his Morrison and Carpenter fining machine
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Ancient ephemera from Worcester & Midlands Cold Stores
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Brown & May vertical steam engine that superseded the waterwheel for pumping and milling. The only vertical B&M engine left in situ in a UK brewery!