Royal Brewery, Manchester - 8 August 2007
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Royal Moss Side Brewery Co. Ltd, Manchester - Photographs taken by Roger Putman - 8 August 2007
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The Royal Brewery has been part of S&N since 1956 when it was bought by Scottish Brewers, the recent amalgam of McEwans and Youngers. Newcastle joined in 1960. The 36 acre site now produces 4mhL a year.
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The brewery dates from 1875 founded by William Brooks as the Albert Brewery. Lager was first brewed in 1927 and the brewery had conical fermenters in 1935.
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View of the brewery yard with fermenters and gas tanks
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A view of the three clad towers each housing two 4500hL matration, one on top of the other.
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Malt intake
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The Balfour 12 tonne mash vessels
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Note the hydrator slide on the grist suply
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The Huppmann lauter tun dates from 1984
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The 950hL coppers by Balfour with a 1980s mral behind
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The coppers from the other direction
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The brewhouse at the Royal
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Another general shot of the brew plant
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Looking outside
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Green beer centrifuges
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Some old horizontal materation tanks
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Beneath the conicals
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An array of auto valves
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More auto valves with different coloured bonnets
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David Leary washed off the Seitz Orion powder filter
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These filters suffer long downtime to wash them off
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A laborious job
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Between the bright beer tanks
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The effluent plant is run by Veolia. The anaerobic digestor is on the left, then the Circox aerobic vessel and a dissolved air flotation tank on the scaffolding and a balance tank
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View across the keg plant with a pair of 16 head B&R Centrimatic machines dating from 1982.
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The Krones 120 head can filler works at 1500cpm
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The Mead multi-packer
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BRC accreditation in action. A hand wash as soon as you leave the visitors walkway.
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The fork lift truck training facility…
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...of which the Royal Brewery is very proud
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The Royal management team; Ken Mabutt (Planning), Bill Robinson (Engineering) Pat Thurston (Head of Manufacturing), Jo Eccleston (Quality) Ruth Bromley (Brewing), Julie Chase (Finance) and Chris Smith (Packaging)