St Austell Brewery - 17 August 2010

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  Façade of the 1893 brewery
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  The brewhouse and whirlpool at night
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  The brewhouse and whirlpool by day
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  Visitor facilities
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  Visitor facilities
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  Wine and beer sales
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  Mix a case
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  A party of vistors inspecting the mash tun
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  Inside one of five new 150 enclosed squares. Note the manway at the rear end to facilitate hosing off residues
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  Pumped sampling loop on the new FVs
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  Data screen for FV18
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  QC laboratory
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  A pair of new conical fermenters
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  Working shelter for DPV4
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  Seepex pump to push spent grains from silo to farmers wagon
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  Spent grain tank
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  There are 36 wooden firkins for the St Kew pub in Wadebridge
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  The casks are maintained by Wadworth since the cooper retired
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  A pair of yeast storage tanks from Wrexham
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  Changeover station
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  Using a Palamatic manual handling aid on the cask line
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  Rented casks for more distant customers
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  Two mash tuns
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  Velo filter
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  Two new 75brl bright beer tanks by Moeschle
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  Sterile filtration by dominickhunter and carbonation by Moravek
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  Plaque on the new bottling line
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  General view of the 4800bph bottling line
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  Depalletising the empties
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  Empties on the way for a rinse
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  Empties marshalled into single file
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  Rinser
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  Filler
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  Crowner
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  Hopper full of crowns
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  Crown elevator
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  Shrinkwrap end of the tray and shrink machine
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  Pre-erected trays
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  A turntable for stretchwrapping
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  Loading casks for the St Columb depot 12 miles away
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  Inside the new depot
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  Inside the new depot
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  Inside the new depot
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  Picking in operation
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  Simon Jackson, Chief Executive of the Institute of Brewing and Head Brewer Roger Ryman
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  Guillermo Alvarez from San Antonio in Texas