Purity Brewery - 24 June 2006
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Purity Brewing Co, Alcaster - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 24 June 2006
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Purity was founded in 2005 by Paul Halsey and James Minkin who used to work for Bass
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Some dilapidated farm buildings at Great Alne near Alcaster in Warwickshire were done up with a £200,000 DEFRA grant
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Total investment was £400,000 and a 20brl brewery designed by Richard Shardlow's Brewery Design Services and fabricated by FEA Stainless was installed
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The buildings also incorporate offices, a bar and community space
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There are but two beers in cask and mini-keg
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There is a reed bed system to deal with the brewery effluent, discharge is to a local stream
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The copper on the right is heated by a Lanemark gas burner, the hop back is on the left with the mash tun and liquor tank behind
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Mash tun plates
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Mash tun and underback
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There is no headroom for a grist case above the mash tun so the mashing is carried out in the malt store and is pumped to the tun via a Seepex pump
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Wort heat exchanger
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Four 20 brl fermenters
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Two station cask washer
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At the brewery opening ceremony, the quality of the beer was assessed by the Ale taster from the local Court Leet
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Tastes OK to me…
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Proprietor Paul Halsey on the right with some members of the Leet
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The Ale Taster's badge of office
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Paul Halsey is a local lad and after a career in beer sales and an award winning restaurateur, he fancied a go at brewing
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Head Brewer is David Beech